InFamous

I have owned a PS3 for about a year now and honestly I have often regretted the purchase.  Finally though a game has come along that made it worth having.  InFamous is a superpowered sandbox type game along the lines of Crackdown.  You play as Cole, a bike messenger who gains lightning controller powers when a package he is delivering explodes in his hands.  The government locks the city down under quarantine to contain the resulting plague and presumably all the other powered people and mutants in the area.  The story is driven along by various contacts including FBI agents, shadow government agents, your pissed off Dr. girlfriend, and others.  They really do a nice job of keeping things going and there are lots of interesting twists to the story along the way.  It took me around 20-25 hours to finish all the story missions and about half of the optional side quests.  I could probably have gone through 40-50 hours easily if I had really pushed to complete everything but I didn't want to burn out before I finished the story and besides it was a rental so I wanted to get through it fairly quickly.  The powers are all really cool, and the environment is pretty well done though not as destructable as I would have liked.  You can blow up cars and whatnot but the buildings themselves are pretty static.  Travel along power lines is a fun idea for getting around the city and it actually requires a fair amount of practice to get good enough at it to keep moving without having to stop all the time.  I played through on the, "good," tree and feel like I am done but I wouldn't mind hearing how the evil tree works out if anyone goes that route.  Bottom line: if you own or have access to a PS3 this is a really good game to get for it.