inFamous Second Son Smoke & Mirrors

GameGrin

07/02/2025

A trailer for inFamous Second Son

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00:00PEGI 16

00:11This is the super hard part.

00:12It's making something that's so soft, like smoke,

00:14feel like it's got that impact.

00:18Our main character, Delson, has basically the coolest power.

00:21It's like going up to a genie and asking for more wishes.

00:23What happens is when he's near other conduits,

00:25he picks up their ability.

00:27The first power that he gets is the smoke power.

00:29That means he can drain it, he can turn into it,

00:32and he can project it.

00:34When you think about where is smoke in a city,

00:36you think of maybe chimneys, fires.

00:39You can get smoke from vehicles in this game,

00:41but you have to destroy them first.

00:43And of course those end up blowing up

00:45and blowing up other things around them.

00:47Those things now become smoke sources.

00:49Every designer loves a burning car.

00:51I don't know why, but every effects artist has to do this at some point.

00:54PlayStation 4 is really allowing us to do some stuff that we couldn't before.

00:58And that meant writing new tools and new particle systems to accommodate that.

01:02All of our particles are self-shadowing, taking environment light.

01:06You can see that the particles are actually affected

01:09by the environment shadows as well.

01:11It just makes everything feel more connected to the world.

01:13It brings it all together.

01:15Honestly, for me, the effects are the coolest part of the game right now.

01:20In a fluid fashion, you can combo up melee hits

01:23to dashes and moving away evasion stuff

01:26to shooting, to dashing back in.

01:28You can dash through guys, grab them, flip them over.

01:30Bam! Oh, that's beautiful.

01:33It inspires that visceral reaction in people when they see it.

01:37So if it tosses things in the air,

01:39and then they kind of like almost hover with some smoke around them,

01:42and then they blow up instead of just...

01:44It's actually...

01:46Windy gusts of...

01:48Yeah, yeah.

01:51World wind of smoke.

01:52Me too, me too.

01:53And these bad guys, right?

01:54And then at the end, all this crap's in the air.

01:56I'm going to shoot this thing right in front of me.

01:58So in the middle of combat,

02:00there are bullets flying at you, grenades,

02:02whatever's coming at you.

02:03You can dodge left, dodge right,

02:05completely dematerialize,

02:07and then rematerialize somewhere else.

02:09You can also dash into vents.

02:11So we made this effect where it sort of swirls in.

02:14Yeah, so he's actually cranking up,

02:16and then he kind of does a corkscrew-y jump.

02:19It's one of those things that just gives you all this energy,

02:22and you can sort of jump into combat, jump into action,

02:25and you feel so powerful and quick,

02:28and you almost want to get surrounded.

02:29You're waiting for that moment to get surrounded

02:31so that you can just unleash this power that they didn't even know you had.

02:34Delson is basically conjuring up a storm of smoke and ash.

02:37I think that if you time it out,

02:39you can push all the ambience down,

02:41and it gets kind of quiet almost like an inhale.

02:44It kind of has that...

02:48We were really pushing it.

02:49Let's have Delson go as high as freaking possible.

02:51Here he is. He's in the air. He kind of tucks in.

02:54By the time it gets to, you know, about here,

02:57he's pretty much reformed at that point, yeah.

03:00And then he kind of dive-bombs in,

03:02and at that point, he's kind of, like, dematerialized.

03:05Anything breakable, it's going to destroy.

03:07Yeah.

03:08Any car, it's going to toss, tumble, throw.

03:10Yeah.

03:11Any person.

03:12Yeah.

03:13Maximum number of things flying around in the air.

03:16We're trying to make you feel like you're this unstoppable force,

03:20and it takes wave after wave of enemy to give you a challenge.

03:26Your character is the weapon,

03:27and that's something that's really, really turned out to be a lot of fun.

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