Infamous: Festival of Blood (2011) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Infamous: Festival of Blood

Infamous: Festival of Blood is an action-adventure video game developed by Sucker Punch Productions for the PlayStation 3 video game console. Festival of Blood is a standalone expansion in the Infamous series…

75 25 October 2011

What Infamous: Festival of Blood is

Infamous: Festival of Blood is an adventure game developed by Sucker Punch Productions and released in 2011. It was published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 3 only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Zeke Dunbar meets a woman at a bar and talks with her, when she notices a comic book Zeke was reading. The woman is about to leave until Zeke mentions his relationship with Cole MacGrath, persuading the woman to stay and listen as he begins to tell her a story involving Cole during the events of "Pyre Night", a fictional celebration in New Marais. During the event, Cole investigates a nearby church after hearing screams, rescuing civilians trapped in its crumbling catacombs. As Cole ventures deeper looking for more survivors, he encounters a woman yelling, who is revealed to be a vampire. Cole is then cuffed and dragged to a tomb deep within the church, and awakens on top of the corpse of a…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, horror, open world and sandbox. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Infamous series

Infamous: Festival of Blood is the sixth of 15 entries we hold in the Infamous series. The next entry was Infamous Collection in 2012. Its critic score of 75 is almost exactly the series average of 77. The highest-rated entry is Infamous at 86.

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How it was received

Infamous: Festival of Blood holds a critic score of 75 out of 100. That places it above 49% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2011 averaged 68, so it scored 7 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 73, across 63 votes.

How long it takes, and what that costs

A full completion run takes around 3 hrs.

What it launched against

Infamous: Festival of Blood launched on 25 October 2011, within three weeks of Batman: Arkham City, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception and Battlefield 3. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Batman: Arkham City, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, Battlefield 3.

Cheats and codes

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Official trailer