inFAMOUS: Festival of Blood will be available on the PlayStation Store in just a couple days: Tuesday, October 25th in North America for $9.99, and $7.99 for PlayStation Plus members (you can even pre-order now on the PlayStation Store). Play it with the classic DualShock or try it out with PlayStation Move support!
Before you get your hands on the game, we had Animation Director Billy Harper and Marketing Director Ken Schramm pack their bags for a whirlwind three-day tour spanning 5,668 miles, two coasts, three cities, and over 20 interviews with press from North America and beyond. It was an amazing couple of days of sharing the latest adventure in the inFAMOUS universe.
We have been pretty quiet about Festival of Blood since we teased you with a clip revealing Bloody Mary at PAX. Since then we have been hard at work crafting this next adventure, adding in all the final details and finishing touches on this standalone game to make the perfect purchase right in time for Halloween. This press tour allowed us to pull the curtain back and give one big preview before the game comes out next week. Billy and Ken covered tons of the new features in Festival of Blood, some of which we will cover here.
With a totally new story in Festival of Blood, of course we had to give Cole a totally new set of powers. One power that fans have always wanted in an inFAMOUS game has been the ability to fly, and with Festival of Blood we thought it was time to give Cole the chance to spread his wings. Bat wings, that is, with a new power called Shadow Swarm. While Shadow Swarm allows you to experience New Marais in a whole new way, it does come at the expense of the innocent people walking around in the night as you must feed upon them to fuel your flight.
Speaking of Pyre Night, all of New Marais celebrates this hallowed night by shrouding the entire city with banners, fireworks, and pedestrians dressing up in the streets. The look of the Pyre Night comes from Sucker Punch’s City Team spending the summer dreaming up the spooky street party that features surprises around every corner. The abandoned subway lines of New Marais have been converted to macabre underground catacombs. Stepping into these dark corridors would leave anyone unsettled, even more so when you find out that Bloody Mary’s minions have been crawling around inside them for years.
User-generated content (UGC) is a key part of the inFAMOUS universe, as you can see from our Cole’s Missing Mission Contest (the grand prize winner receives a $1,000 PlayStation Store gift card!), and we haven’t forgotten this feature with Festival of Blood. Over the last couple of months we have been listening to your feedback and playing all the missions we can from the community and the one thing we have been seeing is the desire to create strong narrative missions. To help users tell their stories, we are happy to add the new 2D cutscene tool with Festival of Blood that allows you to create comic book-inspired cutscenes in your missions. You now can create intro sequences, provide key story details mid-mission, or end your mission with a bang. Along with the 2D cutscene Tool, Festival of Blood brings a whole new set of gory assets to the UGC universe and you can now design missions with as many fiends and harpies as you want.
If you haven’t had a chance, read some of the previews we have listed below:
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yes please tell me there is gonna be a platinum trophy :D. Got it for Infamous 1 and 2, and would love one for FoB/2.5
Can’t wait for this. I already pre-ordered it. Thanks, guys! Still hoping against hope for a Infamous 3.
Now that’s a really cool game to bring out in October. I am glad they announced when this game will be released. I pre-ordered it a few weeks ago. Looks AWESOME and so does the Dynamic Theme it comes with.
im soooooooooooooo sikked 4 Infamous festival of blood!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i already pre-ordered it!!!!! I’m counting down the days on my calendar !!!!!!!!
Will there be a new “Good” power set?
cool this dlc is the best
Too bad Amazon doesn’t sell the PSN cards anymore, otherwise I would buy this day one! What’s up with that Sony? Who knows if or when I’ll remember to buy a PSN card in a retail store!
does it also comes out in Europe on October 25th? please, answer.
Had this pre-ordered since the first day I could, I was excited when this was announced, can’t wait to play it! Wonder how long it is? Hopefully its at least a few hours, I don’t expect it to be Infamous 2 long, but hopefully its at least 5 hours if not more. The theme for this is awesome btw, definitely gives off the halloween mood whenever I turn on my ps3.
Will Infamous 2 festival of blood trophies be displayed inside the addon folder of infamous 2 or separately along all games?
I pre-ordered it and it looks awesome. I still haven’t completely finished the first InFamous but, I’m working on it….
have you guys thought about bringing the franchise to playstation vita? or sly ?
So, if you pre order this game, it only costs 8 bucks even if you are not a plus member?
“inFAMOUS: Festival of Blood will be available on the PlayStation Store in just a couple days: Tuesday, October 25th in North America for $9.99, and $7.99 for PlayStation Plus members (and for those who pre-ordered). Play it with the classic DualShock or try it out with PlayStation Move support!”
The above statement, as seen on the main page of the psblog, is logically the same as saying that the game will be out on tuesday (in NA) for $10, and also available on tuesday for $7.99 for Plus members and for $7.99 for those that pre-ordered it but are not plus members.
This is misleading of course, as the game is probably ten dollars to non plus members who preorder the game.
Looking forward to the PS Move on this game, but I only have two wands and not the one with the thumb stick, am I out of luck?
Just wondering if there is a platinum trophy, other people are wondering as well, if so I’ll buy this game :)
Pre-ordered the game yesterday. The free dynamic theme is awesome. And to those asking, it is $9.99 to pre-order if you are not a plus member.
Ok, what’s gonna take longer, downloading the game or completing the game?
I can’t wait.
Since I have automatic download because I have PS+ and i pre-ordered the game, will I have it start downloading at 12am tuesday?
Will Infamous: Festival of Blood have full trophy support? or will it just be a few trophies without a platinum?
@31 the dynamic theme is sweet! i just came back on here to think yall for the new theme, its awesome! i pre ordered it on wednesday
@62 the benefit of pre ordering it if you dont have plus is the discount. if you have plus you get the 7.99 price regardless. they’ve always promoted new games like this, it’s about 20%
Pre-ordered !!!
Let’s just hope we get this early on Tue (afternoon/evening) as opposed to last Tue when we had to wait until ten at night for one game (Payday: The Heist).
that looks nice
i cant wait .. point blank!!!
The 2D cutscene tool will only be available for those who purchase this Downloadable Content?Or a free UGC pack, like the previous ones?Please respond.
the 2D Cut Scene Tool will be in both inFAMOUS: Festival of Blood and inFAMOUS 2. For inFAMOUS 2, it will be enabled via a patch that will be out shortly.