1.) Use Your Height Advantage - The fundamental laws of warfare never change, even if your form of warfare in Infamous is in the use of a one-man army. Empire City is the environment in which the game takes place, and Empire City is a modern, bustling metropolis, replete with buildings galore and skyscrapers aplenty. During your extensive travels throughout Empire City, you'll be working your way around primarily on foot, all the while running into enemy contingents hell-bent on taking you down. When possible, travel around the city from rooftop to rooftop, which will give you the spring on any enemies gunning for you, and better yet, will give you an awesome vantage point from which to eliminate enemies also on rooftops that would otherwise be gunning at you from fortified positions you couldn't hope to strike back.
2.) Hunt For Experience - Though there isn't a standard RPG-like leveling up system in Infamous, experience is still at the heart of making Cole stronger by allowing him to unlock and purchase new attacks for him to use, and even some defensive assistance as well. Experience can be found everywhere, and should therefore never be ignored, even in small quantities. While you typically earn 500 experience points for completing main quests and 100 experience points for completing side quests, you can earn a couple of experience points for doing things like collecting Blast Shards, healing injured civilians, et cetera. Five experience points might not seem like a lot of experience points for doing something like collecting a Blast Shard, but when you consider there are 350 of them scattered around Empire City, you'll realize that at five experience points apiece, finding them all will net you 1,750 experience points. And that, my friends, is a nice amount of experience, indeed.
3.) Mix Up Quests - The worst way to play Infamous is to ignore side quests completely, since it eliminates much of the game's intended experience. However, there's another bad way to play the game, and that's to do quests by type. That is to say, questing in an attempt to complete all main quests first, leaving side quests for last, is not desirable. Since side quests are so monotonous at times, and since main quests are usually unique and longer, you should try to mix the two up, so that you're doing one, then the other, and so on and so forth. It will increase the quality of your game and keep you from getting bored.
4.) Earn It? Spend It! - In tip #2, we told you to earn as much experience as possible. And this is an important tip, indeed. But there's no reason to horde your experience points, either. Constantly check how much experience you have via the Powers screen, and spend it as you earn it. If you're an active experience earner, and we hope that you are, you should earn more than enough experience to buy all of the upgrades you desire. So saving it means you're saving it for no real reason, because there's always more to be earned. So remember, spend that experience, or there's no reason to earn it at all!
5.) Drain Power to Repower - Never hesitate to drain power when you need it. While it might seem at first glance that there's a finite amount of power in Empire City, that's not true at all. If you siphon all of the power from an object, like a car or a street light, you can always repower them if necessary by using Cole's standard attack on them. Draining power won't only keep your batteries charged for unleashing special attacks on unsuspecting enemies, but it also heals you when injured during the heat of battle, allowing you to recover from damage at a much, much faster rate than by simply standing around and letting nature take its course. So, draining power from objects in the game is multi-faceted and quite important.
6.) Stand and Fight - There are few circumstances in the game that you should shy away from, and those including fighting gigantic groups of enemies, no matter how tough they are. Typically, you won't encounter and do battle with many random groups of foes that are too much for you to handle, but still, you're never going to want to run away from a fight unless you're mere seconds from dying. And even then, dying has no real penalty in Infamous, and thus isn't the worst thing in the world. Always stand and fight when given the opportunity, because as we've drilled into your head at this point, experience is golden in Infamous.
7.) Stick With Your Alignment - We can't possibly stress this point enough. While it might be tempting to strike a sort of balance in the game and remain, for all of you AD
