PlayStation’s State of Play event that kicked off June had several surprises and some disappointments. After a few hopeful teases, there turned out to be no new Sly Cooper, and by extension, no new Infamous. That PlayStation’s looking to preserve its IPs had many equating that with starting up some dormant franchises, with Sucker Punch’s two heavy hitters high up on the list of hopeful returns. And with the 15th anniversary of Infamous 2 hanging in the air—it hit the PlayStation 3 on June 7, 2011—you can kind of see the vision. While the Infamous games’ touted original superhero stories, the series borrowed ideas from many popular games of that time, including a morality system. In-game activities and story choices pushed original protagonist Cole MacGrath into heroism or villainy, with different powers and endings offered up as a reward for sticking with a dichotomy. Karma was a constant across the three main games, but Infamous 2 is where it really took off due to random events and collectibles actively pushing players to shape Cole in a particular direction. At their best, these made players feel like a street-level superperson that helped the franchise cement some goodwill. Narratively, though, Karma’s been the games’ most critiqued aspect, and for good reason. Major choices ask players to choose between well-intended acts or complete destruction, with not a genuine tough call in sight compared to other games like Mass Effect. Cole’s Evil choices often feel out of sync with the general narratives of both games and him as a character, since he’s written as a generally good person well before you can have him do a false flag operation to convince local rebels to join up with him. It makes sense in a dated kind of way that Infamous 2 humanizes its Karma system through two women—Kuo and Nix, who respectively wield powers of ice and napalm and have different types of implied romance with him—that gradually switch sides by the game’s final decision, but morality is at its most natural when it concerns Cole’s friend Zeke.