The woman follows Cole to help him out and thanks Zeke for "informing" her before revealing herself to be a vampire. The woman refuses to believe him until Cole arrives, needing Zeke's help to retrieve his amp from a pool. Her death cures Cole's vampirism, and he slowly returns to normal.īack in the bar, Zeke finishes his story.
As the morning sun rises, Cole struggles to escape the church as Zeke detonates the bombs, destroying Mary once and for all. Upon finding it, the two storm the church, with Cole holding off Mary and her forces while Zeke plants the phosphorus bombs he stole earlier. Realizing the power of the cross, Cole and Zeke set out to retrieve it.
Enraged, Mary established her own vampire clan and traveled to New Marais, where she terrorized the inhabitants until Ignatius captured her and she was burnt alive. One night, they were ambushed by Ignatius, and Marco was killed, cursing Mary to remain a vampire for all eternity. Her admirer, Marco, turned her into a vampire to save her, and the two went to Europe to start new lives. Instead, he discovers a plot by the vampires to set fire to the surface of New Marais with white phosphorus bombs, as well as mementos kept by Bloody Mary detailing her past.Īccording to the mementos, Mary was once a governess to a wealthy family until she contracted a fatal case of smallpox. Desperate, Cole heads towards Bloody Mary's tomb, believing it to be there. Using his finely-tuned vampire senses, Cole is able to identify the vampire who stole it, but he does not have it either. They eventually find out the folklore surrounding Father Ignatius, including a weapon he crafted to kill vampires, the Barbed Cross.Ĭole goes to Ignatius's grave to retrieve the weapon, but finds that the vampires have already claimed it. Seeking a solution, Cole contacts Zeke and both begin researching Pyre Night, the celebration commemorating the burning of Bloody Mary by town hero Father Ignatius centuries ago. At the same time, Mary's vampire followers surface and begin rounding up other civilians, taking advantage of Pyre Night to blend in. Driven by the need to drink blood, he feeds on a random civilian. She taunts Cole telepathically, saying that by dawn, he will become her puppet. Having escaped, he realizes, to his horror, that Mary has infected him and can now control his mind. When Cole comes to, he realises his amp is missing, forcing him to create a makeshift stake in order to fight his way out. She then proceeds to bite Cole, drinking his blood and turning him into a vampire, while her youth and powers are restored. One of the vampires opens up a vein from Cole's neck and drips his blood onto Mary's corpse, awakening her. Cole is then cuffed and dragged to a tomb deep within the church, and awakens on top of the corpse of a female vampire known as Bloody Mary. As Cole ventures deeper looking for more survivors, he encounters a woman yelling, who is revealed to be a vampire. The woman is about to leave until Zeke mentions his relationship with Cole MacGrath, persuading the woman to stay and listen as he begins to tell her a story involving Cole during the events of " Pyre Night", a fictional celebration in New Marais.ĭuring the event, Cole investigates a nearby church after hearing screams, rescuing civilians trapped in its catacombs. The game starts in a bar, where Zeke Dunbar meets a woman and talks with her, when she notices a book Zeke was reading. Infamous: Festival of Blood – along with Infamous and Infamous 2 – was released on Augas part of the Infamous Collection under Sony's new line of PlayStation Collections for the PlayStation 3. Unlike previous games, the game does not feature karmic choices on missions due to Cole's vampire state. The game features new characters, powers and comes with a new comic cutscene creation for the main game Infamous 2 's user-generated content (UGC), as well as support for the PlayStation Move controller. The story is set aside from the canon aspect of the Infamous series, being a spoof told by the main protagonist's friend Zeke Dunbar.
Festival of Blood is a standalone expansion in the Infamous series based on the Infamous 2 engine and map but does not require a copy of Infamous 2 in order to play. Infamous: Festival of Blood is an action-adventure video game developed by Sucker Punch Productions for the PlayStation 3 video game console.