14 DAY TRIAL // Infamous 2, Sucker Punch's upcoming open-world superhero game, has just received a massive new feature in the form of a full-pledged mission creator that allows players to make any sort of mission they want and play it in the game.
Infamous 2 has gotten quite a few new details in recent months, but Sucker Punch saved the best for the Game Developers Conference which is going on right now in San Francisco.
At the event, the development studio announced that Infamous 2 will have its own mission creator, allowing players to create any type of content they want with easy-to-use tools and then share the missions with others seamlessly.
"We thought Infamous 2 would be better if it didn’t end—if you never ran out of missions and mini-missions to play and things to do. So… we spent the last two years adding a User-Generated Content feature to the game. With User-Generated Content, Infamous 2 players can build new missions, then share them with the world. I think you’ll all quickly discover that while building missions is a lot of fun, seeing people play and enjoy those missions is even better," said the studio.
Players will be able to do almost anything their heart wants, from recreating the missions found in the actual game to creating all-new ones, just like they would want.
From escort missions to defense ones, stealth, platformers or even races around New Marais, the city where all the action takes place, players can let their imagination go wild and use all of the characters, creatures and props from the actual game.
The missions will then be uploaded to Sony servers, from where people can experience them and then cast their vote.
"User-generated missions show up in the world just like regular missions. When you walk up to them, you see the PSN tag of the mission creator, plus extra information like the mission’s current rating. And back at Sucker Punch headquarters, we’ll be watching—missions that get high scores will get promoted to the Sucker Punch Featured Missions list, and those missions will end up just about everyone’s copy of New Marais."
A limited public beta of the Infamous 2 User-Generated Content feature will be opened in early April, but more details will appear later this month.
Until then, check out a video of the feature in action, as well as screenshots with some of the things that can be built in Infamous 2, or, as it might be nicknamed, LittleBigInfamous, after LittleBigPlanet, another game that placed heavy emphasis on player creations.
