http://ps3.ign.com/articles/110/1108060p1.html  
 
FUCKING RIGHT! This was the only thing keeping me from being abnormally pumped for this game, I was just regularly pumped. Now I'm abnormally pumped.  
 
I do really wish they kept the old voice, because this kind of defeats the whole reason why they got the new VA in the first place. But I am glad that I don't have to look at a dude-bro that seems like he could start bursting into a conversation about Ford Mustangs any second. Beggars can't be choosers, and I'm glad they listened to our cries.  

Aww...

and now my life is complete 

Well, as long as I can still play "infamously" and look even eviler, then cool. 
 
However, I am offended by this comment in the source: 
 

YES!!! THANK GOD! 
I was honestly thinking off not playing the 2nd one because off how gay he looked (yes i have something against gays, so shut up)
Posted by:  PeddoBear on July 22, 2010 22:24 PDT    

Sweet fucking news

Good, only because its consistent.

I hope they give him some hair.

I don't think the hood made him look street. It made him look isolated, which was in character.

I hope they havn't changed him completely back. I mean, surely he's grown back some hair since the explosion in the first game.

I still wish they would've kept the old voice actor though. The new one still sounds too "un-gruff", especially when he's trying to be serious, but I'm still excited.

Voice actor is still different though. Ah well, I enjoyed the first one enough to get the sequel even if the first did have some problems.

Thank god.

awesome

The voice actor doesn't live near the studio, and since they are doing performance capture (how Uncharted does its motion capture and voice capture) they needed an actor that was local.

" Well, as long as I can still play "infamously" and look even eviler, then cool. 
 
However, I am offended by this comment in the source: 
 

YES!!! THANK GOD! 
I was honestly thinking off not playing the 2nd one because off how gay he looked (yes i have something against gays, so shut up)
Posted by:  PeddoBear on July 22, 2010 22:24 PDT    

"

I'm holding my breath until I see an image of the new Cole

Yes. Yes.

Cool. I didn't hate the old new look but it bugged me that it wasn't consistant with the first one. 
 
Lets hope we see some pics or video of the new look soon.

Thank goodness. The new Cole was really bothering me.

Stupendous news! His new look was just a shitty Nathan Drake knockoff anyways.

Right inFAMOUS 2 I can take you off my shit list, but you need to prove to me that Cole has been effected emotionly by the events in inFAMOUS 1.

"Stupendous news! His new look was just a shitty Nathan Drake knockoff anyways. "

Nice, but my main complaint was with the voice, not the look of the character. I won't be happy until the get the original voice actor back (or at least find someone manlier than who they have now).

AT LAST they've made Cole exactly as uninteresting and devoid of character as before. 
Well done internet!

This whole thing was an elaborate ruse to trick people into liking the original Cole.

" As long as I get some hard core rooftop electric grinding, they can put Cole in a clown suit and give him Michael Cera's dorky-ass voice for all I care. "

that sucks

" I hope they havn't changed him completely back. I mean, surely he's grown back some hair since the explosion in the first game. "

This is fantastic news. While the Old(and now only) Cole's character was a little grating I grew to love him and his fucked up time-traveling-electric-super-power-having life.

I prefer the new voice actor. The new character had grown on me a little, but I'm happy to hear they've listened to fan-feedback on this.

" AT LAST they've made Cole exactly as uninteresting and devoid of character as before. Well done internet! "

New Cole was okay, but he wasn't old cole. If new cole was a whole new character it wouldn't be so bad but they would have no explanation for the dramatic change so... Yeah, I'm glad old Cole is back.

Well, the voice actor still sucks balls, but glad they are changing him back.  Really ruins the vibe of the game to flip the char like that.  Makes me picture a PR meeting on "how can we make Cole more likable?"  Glad apparently someone had some integrity/love for the work.

CONSISTENCY!

I hadn't actually played inFamous when the latest trailer for inFamous 2 was shown, but since then I've finished it and I gotta say that I (mostly) liked the look of "old Cole" a lot, so I'm glad that they decided to stick with it. Not that I completely hated "new Cole" but yeah...consistency is nice.
 
As for the sequel, I liked the original inFamous after playing through it, but there were a lot of points that could be improved upon, namely the amounts of obvious pop in, face animations and climbing mechanics that not always worked their best. With that said I'm now excited and have high hopes for this sequel.

 
It sucks that they're ditching the look they had for Cole, but oh well. Hope the NEW new look turns out OK. 
 
And for all that is holy, they better NOT change Cole's voice back to that shitty "I smoke 20 packs of Camels a day" voice. It reminded me too much of Christian Bale's shitty Batman voice, and that's never a good thing as far as I'm concerned.

THEY BETTER HAVE!

My biggest bone of contention was the voice actor, it's not that he's bad it's just a completely different change to the character. I kind of wished they requested the actor try and emulate the voice of Cole from the first game just a little.
 
Right now he sounds so happy and upbeat about everything. Cole was a bit like Batman or Spider-Man, a bit of a brooding grumpy bugger who had a few light hearted jokes and moments.

Awesome,would be nice if they keep the new Cole in the game as well,as an optional skin

Whoa, whoa, whoa! Sucker Punch. Do you really not have any people working for you that have a sense of style and class? We said we hated the new look, we didn't say we wanted the old one back. Whatever, though. At least I don't have to play as some dude who I can't look at without wanting to punch him in the face.
 
Oh, and the voice. Did it get grittier again?