Sucker Punch, the developer behind the inFamous series, started teasing big news yesterday and they’ve now blown the lid off the surprise… and what an explosion it was.
When inFamous 2 ships this June, it will do so with a built in ‘level creator’ that anyone can use. With this tool, you can create many different kinds of missions (defense, platform, escort, etc.) and fine tune them to however you see fit. You can even place your own objects and enemy spawn locations wherever you deem necessary to craft a level that is completely your own. Once you’re done, you’ll be able to share them with others via the PlayStation Network.
Sucker Punch will even be watching for the highest rated levels so they can be displayed more prominently to a larger audience.
Exciting news, right? Brace yourself, there’s more. There’s going to be a beta dedicated to this new mode that will launch some time in April. Sucker Punch is calling it a public beta but it sounds like you’re still going to have sign up for it. They’ve promised to release more information on March 14. Until then, check out the trailer below to get a better idea of what to expect.
Source: US PlayStation Blog
Rob92
Just to echo everyone else – holy f*ck.
Definately wasnt expecting that one.
elpablo79
I’m not sure what to make of this (pun unintended). The first was a brilliant game and I’m looking forward to the second. I like the idea of creating and sharing levels, but I’ll reserve judgement til it’s out. Just seems a strange fit.
hazelam
ok, that i certainly wasn’t expecting.
but damn, that is exciting news.
i can’t wait to see what people can do with this, i think even sucker punch will be surprised by what people will come up with.
they probably could have thrown out a lazy sequel and it probably would sold well enough, but they decided to push the series forwards, make improvements in almost every area, it looks that way so far anyway.
there are a few developers who could take a lesson from sucker punch.
Dange
Awesome, this has just got me from interested to sold on this game.
ProjectJAY
*pure glee*
Excitement levels just went through the roof.
Smallville2106
Sounds pretty cool actually. Hope it turns out well. I suck at making levels but looking forward to seeing what the community come up with.
cc_star
That’s pretty cool for a game like this, looks like it works similar to Far Cry 2’s level creator, but not seeing if the environments are selected from a list or you can build them up like in FC2 it’s hard to say.
Will add to the replayability though… I wonder if one day all games will ship with a create mode, after all the game devs just use a more advance version of them to make the games in the first place, adding a simple UI to them might not be the crazy amount of work you’d first think.
BigCheese
Very unexpected indeed, I’m very interested in this concept, sounds/looks like an epic game so far, and this can only appeal to the majority of gamers. Good move, Sucker Punch.
DRCD1
OMG OMG OMG (SCREAMS LIKE A GIRL) AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH MAN I LOVE IT AH CAN’T WAIT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
beeje13
Action Game of the Year?