inFamous: First Light is
a standalone downloadable content video game developed by Sucker Punch
Productions and published by Sony Computer
Entertainment. The game was
announced at E3 2014 and will be available for PlayStation 4 on August 26th,
2014 in North America and August 27th, 2014 in Europe. Abigail Walker,
a young conduit in the D.U.P.'s custody in their prison Curdun Cay, is ordered to
give a demonstration of her powers to one Brooke Augustine whom using the powers ofanother conduit "generously" supplies
holographic foes for Abigail to kill.
Once
that is done Abigail is told to tell the events that led up to her arrest. 7
years earlier Abigail was one of the first of the new Conduits who emerge
following The Beast's rampage across the countryside.
Although
her parents tried to cope at first they were left with few options after
Abigail injured one of her classmates by mistake. Abigail's older brother Brent Walker immediately grabbed Abigail and ran
away with her, the pair turned to drug use to cope but Brent eventually got
clean, even going as far as to hide Abigail's stash to help her get clean as
well. Brent also made Abigail keep the use of her powers to a minimum to avoid
suspicion.
For
years Brent worked for gangs to acquire enough funds to buy a boat and sneak across
the border from Seattle to Canada where the D.U.P.'s authority doesn't extend
to. Unfortunately Two years ago, at the point where the plot was supposed to be
completed the gang of Russian mobsters known as the Akuransdestroyed the boat, took Brent hostage, and almost
killed Abigail with a bomb.
Using
her powers Abigail survives and begins looking for Brent. Abigail soon meets Shane, one of Brent's old contacts and a small time drug-lord
also looking for Brent. Shane takes advantage of Abigail's naivete to use her
to win a gang war with the Akurans almost single handily. When they do finally
find Brent, Shane takes him hostage and forces Abigail to help him cement his
hold on Seattle's drug trade.
Back
in the present Augustine theorizes that the new powers Abigail develops may be
a reaction to extreme trauma to help her cope. On the condition that she show
her all of her powers Augustine allows Abigail to fight holograms of her "D.U.P. Troops." Once the latest challenges are completed
Abigail continues her story. Another employee of Shane's working for the city's
tech support department, named Jennifer,
offers to help look for Brent.
Jennifer has
narrowed down where Shane is keeping Brent to three shipping crates dotted
around the city. Finding the crates not only does Abigail discover that Brent
isn't in any of them but Shane, already on to them, hunts down and kills
Jennifer. Shane has Abigail help him force the police's favor by having Abigail
slaughter the police force while he has a sit-down with the chief.
The chief agrees
to Shane's terms, on the condition that Abigail leaves Seattle and doesn't come
back. With this Shane sends Abigail to pick up her brother. Unfortunately it
turns out to be a trap where Shane attempts to kill Abigail with a homemade gas
chamber, Abigail however is able to pull through and escape. Back in the
present, realizing that Abigail is still holding out on her, decides to send
her to yet another new arena.
Taking
inspiration from Eugene's love of the Heaven's Hellfire game Augustine has
Abigail fight her now literal Demons. Once the third arena is completed
Augustine has Abigail finish the story. The still alive Abigail
"negotiates" a new deal with Shane, he hands over Brent, alive and
intact, and she stops tearing apart his gang and operation. Shane has Abigail
meet him at the Crocodile where he sticks her with a drug filled needle.
In the resulting
drug filled haze Abigail accidentally kills Brent, leaving her emotionally
distraught and defenseless as the D.U.P. closes in on her. Back in the present
Augustine reveals that she knew Abigail's story all along, she has been making
her work up the nerve for murder, revealing that she has Shane in custody and
offers Abigail the chance to kill him.
Gladly accepting
Augustine's offer Abigail's "enthusiasm" leads her to blow a hole in
the wall of the prison into the outside world. Though Shane miraculously survives,
battered and bruised, he escapes by hijacking an APC with the D.U.P. and the
also now freed Abigail in hot pursuit. With the D.U.P's unwilling assistance,
Abigail catches up to Shane and violently kills him, avenging her brother.
Augustine, after she hears that Shane had been executed, she states that
Abigail is 'ready'.
Alongside
Eugene and another Conduit named Hank Daughtry, Abigail is
released into the Military's custody. During the drive, Hank reveals he's
smuggled in a bent paper clip to use it to pick their restraints, hijacking the
truck, and crashes it at Salmon
Bay.
Gameplay
With a few exceptions Abigail's powers play
identically to Delsin Rowe's Neon powers, but
First Light introduces a few new features:
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Neon
Races-Abigail can chase down floating balls of Neon gas and Conduit energy
called "lumens" that reward her with skill points to increase her
powers.
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Arena
Challenges-Both Abigail Walker and Delsin Rowe can fight against hoards of
holographic enemies in Arena Challenges inside Curdon Cay. Completing
challenges reward the player with Skill points that they can use to upgrade
their abilities.
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A New
enemy-Exclusive to the arena is a new enemy faction: Demons, with their own
unique powers and abilities.
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