that having trophies from the original inFamous on your profile when starting grants you access to a variety of benefits. Said benefits include starting boosts to karma, free energy cores and bonus XP.

Most interestingly, though, the trophies for taking specific decisions in the inFamous storyline are used to change side missions, dead drops and dialog throughout inFamous 2. Kind of like importing a BioWare save into a sequel, only using Trophy data instead of a save file.

Save imports are nothing new, but this is the first time that Trophy or Achievement data has been used to affect gameplay in a subsequent title. The advantage of this system is that those players who have lost their save data or changed consoles since playing the original will still be able to take advantage of the import feature.

Plus, it might convince more people to play inFamous, which I'm sure Sucker Punch won't complain about too much.