E3 2010: inFamous 2 Trailer Frostily Expands Cole's Powers

[scotth266]

Infamous 2 is very under-whelming thus far with the trailers.

Attempting to make melee combat viable? That's a good idea. However, Sucker Punch needs to step it up story-wise: the first game's plot was filled with holes and poorly-executed, and there is nothing in this trailer to indicate that things will be better this time around.

This leads to my next point: I'm confused as to why they ditched the previous Cole (in both looks and voice actor) because the problem wasn't Cole at all. The problem was the writing he was being fed. The writing in the trailer looks to be more of the same quality-wise, so I wouldn't be surprised if there is a third Cole come sequel time.

Also, the smoke monster looks silly.

 

[Baldry]

That's definitely a different guy...but who?! I think read somewhere that it was also supposed to be in a different city so it could be a new guy, or it may be set a long time in future and that could be Cole's son? You know if Cole managed to be able to touch people without frying their face off.

Well only time, and leaked info will tell, lets hope its as good as the first one!\

Also I can't wait to see how the ice ability adds the free running mechanic, maybe making paths out of ice, or just being able to walk over water

 

[F-I-D-O]

Expect some Iceman-inspired moves, perhaps a path of ice mid air?

One of the people working on it said that he would still be the "Electric Man" and not "Iceman"
Can't say I'm to happy about that, it could mean that either his ice is not worth using, not very many powers, or if the electricity will just improve faster and be deadlier (but maybe they would take longer to charge/use?).
Apparently you get to keep a lot of old powers, and who needs an ice slide when you can grind on power lines/railroad tracks?

Over water perhaps?

That could make sense, since you will be navigating through swamps (new city is like New Orleans)and that could help avoid insta-death from water.

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Same guy. They redesigned him to make him look more appealing so we would feel more attached to him. It's Cole, but with a different voice actor/changed character model
He goes to a New Orleans like city to avoid the Beast, Beast is the main badguy.

 

[Baldry]

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Same guy. They redesigned him to make him look more appealing so we would feel more attached to him. It's Cole, but with a different voice actor/changed character model
He goes to a New Orleans like city to avoid the Beast, Beast is the main badguy.

Ahh right...Well that sucks. Well hopefully something will happen and we will get our bald hero back, although at least we are getting a new game.
And thanks for the information.

 

[MR.Spartacus]

Okay that's somewhat interesting, BUT why does he look and sound like a completely different person?

 

[PedroSteckecilo]

Looks like Cole has decided to go all "Nathan Drake" on us, or at the very least has recovered from his larynx injury from the first game (that's my story and I'm sticking to it, afterall he doesn't sound the same in the narrated cutscenes as he does when he's actually speaking to other people, eh?)

 

[chromewarriorXIII]

I don't like the new voice actor at all. For some reason the old voice of Cole really grew on me. I also don't like the new look. But I'm going to give this game a chance anyway.

It's confirmed they changed the voice actor? I dislike the look and voice of this Cole too, I was hoping the sequel would see an evolution over who he was in the 1st game, not a complete change :-(

I don't think they confirmed a new voice actor, but just they way he sounded, there is no way that could be the same guy. If anything, I expected him to sound a little darker (because of the events of inFamous) but not, like other people are saying, angsty.

 

[Fox242]

I'm too sure about this new voice actor, but I'm sure that I will warm up to him eventually. I'm glad that there will be a new element to control as well as actual physical weapons. inFamous is one of my all time favorite games and hopefully the sequel can make the series even better.

 

[Sky Captanio]

Wait a minute. Who says that's Cole?

 

[Gabanuka]

Fecked up new voice and he seems to be younger, how does that work?

 

[Jumplion]

That's definitely a different guy...but who?! I think read somewhere that it was also supposed to be in a different city so it could be a new guy, or it may be set a long time in future and that could be Cole's son? You know if Cole managed to be able to touch people without frying their face off.

Well only time, and leaked info will tell, lets hope its as good as the first one!\

Also I can't wait to see how the ice ability adds the free running mechanic, maybe making paths out of ice, or just being able to walk over water

It's a newly designed Cole, since in the original people found him pretty annoying. A gravely voice and a pretty ugly design to be honest kind of made him unlikeable. I do prefer this new Cole to an extent, though it's going to take some getting used to.

 

[VZLANemesis]

wheres the angry potato Cole i know and love?

...is it just me or does the new one look too "hip"?

Edit:

Is the voice actor different? This guy sounds kind of... I dunno, douchey :/

YES!!! exactly what I noticed.... the new younger look doesn't help with that either

Is that Cole? If so, why did they change his design? If not why this new guy? He looks virtually indistinguishable from every other handsome white guy with cropped brown hair [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/57-Painkiller] which is to say pretty much all video game action heroes.

And to add insult to injury his costume is so plain and normal looking too.

Plus, they gave him fucking tribal tatoos...ugh. I think Sucker Punch took a few to many pointers from Uncharted with this whole "plain hipster" look.

News flash, game developers; us nerds don't want our game characters to look like surfer dudes.

...amen brotha

 

[ProtoChimp]

It looks better but Cole sounds younger, looks younger and probably is younger because I don't think that's Cole. And where the fuck is my... I mean the comic book look of the first one. Also even though I hate raspy voiced characters, I liked his old voice better.

 

[Jaebird]

No more faux-Christian Bale Batman voice is always a plus. Can't wait to play.

 

[gilbro7]

Some shit never changes, like war, war never changes...was no one else thinking this?

 

[JdaS]

This is looking hot. I ended up liking Prototype more than the first inFamous in 2009. I'm really feeling this second installment though. New powers and moves look promising and the addition of a weapon is actually quite welcome in my opinion. As for the "new" Cole, already happy at the missing yellow jacket and I'm sure I'll get used to the rest. All that's left is a better environment. The first one was 3 islands of the same...

 

[Pyroco101]

jeez, this is like when Danny Phantom got ice powers, but not as random, so people arnt raging about it.

 

[paragon1]

Okay, why was the New Orleans politician wielding a katana?

 

[Druyn]

This could be pretty cool or pretty retarded, Ill just wait and see.

I have to say though, the pun in the title made me twinge.

 

[OceanRunner]

Give Cole fire and wind powers and he'll have the ancient elements covered.