

Unlike the previous installment, which had a single faction set for one district, all of the factions are scattered, and can be found throughout the city. The main city is divided into several districts, namely: Ville Cochon, Ascension Parish, Flood Town, and Gas Works. Set in the fictional city of New Marais, Cole is engaged to a newer environment that is fairly reminiscent to that of Empire City. Players can import their data at the main menu of the game.

Have good or evil trophies from inFamous - Starts the game at level 1 Good Karma or level 1 Evil Karma.Doing so will affect the game in specific ways, namely the following: Infamous 2 allows the import of the trophy data in Infamous. Like before, Cole's actions affect his surroundings, and is kept in check by the presence of the Karma system present in the previous game. Majority of the revamped elements are on Cole's powers, and also with a new settings and overall gameplay.

Much of the original gameplay elements incorporated in its predecessor are present within Infamous 2, albeit slightly revamped.
