{"id":1480,"date":"2009-06-23T18:15:02","date_gmt":"2009-06-23T23:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/06\/23\/is-infamous-worth-a-full-price-purchase\/"},"modified":"2010-12-29T08:46:12","modified_gmt":"2010-12-29T13:46:12","slug":"is-infamous-worth-a-full-price-purchase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/06\/23\/is-infamous-worth-a-full-price-purchase\/","title":{"rendered":"Is inFAMOUS worth a full price purchase?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am trying to establish a new cardinal rule of game purchases.  I am still working out the details, but one no-no has to be instant gratification purchases of new games.  As I have learned in the past, if I do not have time to play a game, or if I do not have the patience to work my way through a complicated control system, the game just sits around collecting dust.  <\/p>\n<p>Enter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metacritic.com\/games\/platforms\/ps3\/infamous\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.metacritic.com\/games\/platforms\/ps3\/infamous', 'inFAMOUS');\" target=\"new\">inFAMOUS<\/a>.  It looks really good.  In fact, this Australian <a href=\"http:\/\/oxcgn.com\/2009\/06\/23\/oxcgns-steal-it-for-the-360-infamous-ps3\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/oxcgn.com\/2009\/06\/23\/oxcgns-steal-it-for-the-360-infamous-ps3\/', 'site');\" target=\"new\">site<\/a> rates this one a \u201csteal\u201d \u2026 as in, Microsoft should dig deep in their pockets to figure out how to get the game to the 360.  Of course I do not see this happening anytime soon because Sucker Punch is too closely aligned with Sony, but stranger things have happened before.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While I personally don\u2019t think it will be a Game of the Year-type title, it is without question a fantastic game, and all 360 owners who are bored of Prototype should be very jealous of this fantastic, superior game.<\/p>\n<p>If some of you 360 owners are lucky enough to have a PS3 as well, definitely pick this one up and have a go.<\/p>\n<p>Would we steal this title for the 360?<br \/>\nSteal It? YES!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I do not see me picking this one up unless I can get some sort of discount.  I still have to pay off Pangya and my HDD\/USB drive purchases.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am trying to establish a new cardinal rule of game purchases. I am still working out the details, but one no-no has to be instant gratification purchases of new games. As I have learned in the past, if I do not have time to play a game, or if I do not have the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/06\/23\/is-infamous-worth-a-full-price-purchase\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is inFAMOUS worth a full price purchase?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-1480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-ps3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3290,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480\/revisions\/3290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}