I know what you mean about previous game him being a bike messenger and he was kind of "homeless" to do much changing and all.

I still dislike the tattoos.

http://www.1up.com/do/previewPage?cId=3179989

Gameplay
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/exclusive-chase-...

Very awesome, seems to offer more stuff that appeals to me than the first one.
Nice cool melee attacks, nice upgraded powers, MUCH better running animations and "attack stance"...and the end power was awesome LOL.

This video was very appealing, can't wait to see more!

This game looks incredible, they REALLY improved the graphics.

i'm proper psyched for this after seeing that. it'a like infamous with 'awesome factor' turned up to 11. i see what they meant when various places where comparing what they saw behind closed doors to uncharted 2, they've really upped the cinematic feel of the game.

it looks really nice (still got some pretty awful pop-in tho) and a lot better then the first (which i already thought looked great for an open world game) and the gameplay additions and refinements look wicked. when the buildings started falling to bits and that very last uber power my jaw was on the floor. wall sliding looks cool, lighting looks amazing. i want it ASAP.

i saw infamous 1 as the opposite of that almost. it was open only in the sense that it was a single area where the linear, focused, and quite limiting missions took place and where accessed from. but that is the reason i liked it as much as i did. it felt like the areas in which the missions took place where designed and crafted to be approached in a very specific, and linear way, be it the sewer systems where you pick up powers, or the trash tower, or rescuing zeke from the shipping yard etc. the only time it really deviated from that was the side missions, which felt like typical open world fare in the sense they lacked the impact and structure of the main story missions.

infamous did open world in a way no other really has. games like prototype and spider-man and crackdown lack focus. they give you options and abilities, but ultimately let you use them in a very samey way. setting a mission on one rooftop doesnt differentiate itself enough from another rooftop. infamous however crafted areas almost akin to a more linear game, like uncharted, but set them within the open-world landscape. but that is why it worked as well as it did. it had the exploration and sense of freedom that comes with an open-world game, but the main story was handled in a very linear, story driven fashion. its the best combination imo. and GTA is the only other game that comes close to the way it does things.

infamous 2 will no doubt be the same, but by the looks of things, it's upping the cinematic flair that games benefit from imo. dead space is doing it and it looks all the more impressive for it. infamous is the same. it looks very linear in the way you have to progress through this mission in particular, but then most of the missions in the first where the same as mentioned above, not to mention it's a chase sequence, you can rarely deviate from a set path when you're doing chase missions.

if they can give infamous that awesome uncharted 2 touch of magic, while keeping the sense of freedom, character progression and good/evil gameplay, then this is gonna be seriously impressive.

I like the old cole much better, he seemed edgy. This guy just seems like every other typical nub with hair gel wearing a t-shirt.

And the old guy looked like a generic buzz cut character we seen multiple times already.
And I dont see the "hair gel" guy with this new one, you want hair gel you take look at Japanese characters LOL.
Only thing they need to change IMO is the body design but keep the voice and head design.

Old Cole wasn't a standout character either, but new Cole is indeed pretty shitty. His look and voice are just terrible. I can already tell no amount of play time will change the fact that I already hate him. Lucky for them everything else about the game looks boss, so one can look past such things.

I will have a laugh every time I die though(SHITTY COLE DIED WOOOO!), which judging by the first game, will be a lot.

Don't forget the Reapers with sniper like accuracy. I didn't die that much from them, but the fact they were so god damn accurate always pissed me off. Didn't matter how far or how high they were, they always hit you dead on first shot. As for the shards, I eventually stopped bothering. They were too damn troublesome, and you didn't even need that much extra battery cores to beat the game. Also, that damn trophy was only a bronze. Fuck them.

Those Jeans are ridicolous!!

LOL

Damn it, back to generic short buzzcut, great :(

Sony already have one bald character, Nathan Hale from Resistance we dont need another one.

Cole reminds me of:

those images are from the original (and now old) gameinformer issue that revealed the game. the footage we've seen since in trailers and gameplay is the more recent version of cole. i guess they wanted to retain the skinhead look from the first, but then decided against it (makes sense since hair styles tend to change over time)

either way i'd be happy tbh. i just dont want them to change what he's wearing now. i've grown to really like it.

Simon, you seriously think the old Cole was a hair-geled guy? wow you must only look at buzzcut characters only then.
Just because they have hair doesnt mean their hair has gel in it.

My hair is somewhat similair to Cole with hair and I dont have one hair product in it at all.

I think you are just making an excuse to hate it more because you got attached to the original Cole.
I really hate hair gel douches as well, but the redesigned Cole looked nothing like that, except the whole tattoo thing which I hate.

I still dont understand why they re-designed Cole though, gameplay, world...sure thats given, but a entire main character design? Not good.

IMO, the original design didnt bother me that much to begin with.Are you bald? :P
Guys with hair gel is infront of the mirror for atleast 30 minutes to get that "perfect shape in place".
Every guy with decent short hair will always fix their hair right every morning to make it look good for like 2 minutes, you dont expect everyone just waking up and leaving their morning grizzled hair just be like that do you?

Sorry but that is a silly thing to say TBH.

But still, his entire rest of design is BAD.
Thats just me though.

So everyone with a buzzcut is "i dont give a fuck" type? LOL hilarious thing to say.

they redesigned him because they couldn't get the orignal voice actor. coles forced batman voice from the first game fit the way he looked. but take the voice away, and you basically have 2 choices. have a new voice (as heard in the trailer/gameplay) but stick it on a visual appearance that doesnt work at all (it'd be like the terminator talking like jet lee. doesnt fit) or you redesign the character to better fit the voice. they did what they had to do given the circumstances.

not to mention the amount criticism the original voice got. most devs would have simply found a voice actor with a similar voice to the original, but seeing as it was so disliked in the first game, they didnt really have that luxury either.

just put it down to bad luck i guess. but for me at least, this is a happy accident. you have a visual appearance that doesnt look so generic (it looks like old cole got a job in red faction armageddon for those who miss him)



and he has a voice that sounds like it could be a lot more emotive...not gravely-tastic ala all christian bale roles. win-win