Working on a cartoon thief game for six years, we got a little tired of sneaking around and wanted variation, change. “We knew towards the end of Sly 3 that we wanted to do something else. After the development of Sly 3 had wrapped, Sucker Punch were looking for their next big project, as Infamous’ game director Nate Fox explained in a 2009 interview with Joystiq. The first Infamous game launched in 2009 on PS3, and was seen as a huge departure for developers Sucker Punch, who had previously made a name for themselves developing the Sly Cooper trilogy. The question, as always, is will we ever see a new Infamous game? With the PS5 closing in on its first full year of availability, the time could be right to see the super-powered franchise make a return on next-gen consoles, or even come to PC thanks to Sony’s enhanced focus on that platform. However, after three main instalments and two stand-alone campaigns, the series appears to have fallen off the face of the earth.

Being able to explore a massive open world and make your own decisions about whether or not you’d let absolute power corrupt absolutely, Infamous was certainly a special kind of game. Playing as a super-powered being is like the ultimate wish fulfilment in gaming, so it’s no surprise that Sucker Punch’s Infamous series became as popular as it did.

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