Absolutely, I just think the super short hair is more evocative of a casual nature than his current hairstyle, and since those are the ones they've actually put on him so far I've picked between them.

And yeah, haha, I know exactly what you mean about not missing a spot. I shaved a friend's head once and he got really upset at the patches I somehow missed. :D

Thank god they decided on something. This was rapidly turning pathetic.

Yellow/black and white stripes are back too, the most iconic features of Cole's previous getup. I am appeased! I am STOKED! I'm gonna jump in a cryo chamber and set it to release me when this comes out!

...Man I wish I hadn't done absolutely everything in the first game already. Maybe I'll poke a pen in my ear and try to mess the InFamous part of my brain up.. or poke a pen in my PS3 and mess the InFamous part of my saves/trophies up.

Hmmm. If only there was a way to measure what's safer.

I haven't seen a single thing yet that wasn't in the first one. I think you're imagining things because for a second there, you liked the dude's hair. :)

Tornado lightning looks like a continuation of the shockwave power of the first game (which, with anti hero Cole tears up entire streets), melee weapon is just instead of the punching melee.

Wall slide is new, but it's a modifier of the climbing telephone poles and then grinding/floating up on roofs.

So yeah, I fail to see how this is much "deeper".

Sure, I guess I can see how the visual representation of things - although the gameplay expression hardly changes - can be more appealing.

I'm kinda stuck in looking at the gameplay side of things, so I always find it hard to relate when people talk about visual feedback. I mean I guess I notice it, but it rarely factors into the feel for me. I've never understood how the effects in a game like Soul Calibur or Tekken can put people off those games either, but I suppose the effects very much translate into a *feeling* to them, and to you I assume.

I'm very particular with visuals when it comes to music games, and I definitely feel a tingling sensation from stuff that is visually striking like Jet Set Radio when that came out. Taking Gears of War as an example I pretty much find the entire thing a dull, gray, boring paste, but it feels good to play.

The only visual feedback that makes a difference to me in games that are representations of physical things is animation and behavior. The way Cole darts around and places his feet properly in InFamous is very much key to my enjoyment of that game. I just couldn't really care less if cars spin around in a circle or not when I fire a tornado though, it's just too far removed from the kinetic, core experience and feeling of physic expression within the game world.

BUT HEY, we're all different blokes with different associated strokes.

I wonder if Amon Tobin is back for this. His score for the first InFamous is dark and haunting and brilliant - easily his best video game stuff since Chaos Theory.