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Old Cole is back. Sucker Punch had redesigned the game’s main protagonist to look like a man with a bit more personality. According to them, they wanted him to feel human-like. You know, a man with feelings. That, however, didn’t work out.

As soon as fans of the game saw the new Cole, the outcry reverberated across gaming’s web like Pastors shouting to the masses that the end of the world is near.

Immediately, Sucker Punch reverted, going back to the old days when Cole was cold. We have full details of the game, and then some for you past the break.

The developer gave G4TV a chance with the upcoming PS3 exclusive, divulging much needed information to quench your thirst.

According to the site, Cole now looks like his good, old self, although you’ll quickly realize he’s shed his leather jacket for a t-shirt, and he appears to be wearing some sort of running pants. He’s also got his new melee weapon, The Amp, strapped on his back.

Not only does Cole look different, he moves in new ways as well. There’s a new actor playing Cole in this game, and he wore a mocap suit while voicing the dialogue. This is the first time Sucker Punch has used mocap, and you’ll see Cole acting a lot more human. For starters, he uses both hands now while using his powers.

As we’ve known for some time now, inFamous 2 takes place in a city not unlike New Orleans. It’s a festive, fetid city on the edge of the bayou, and the whole city is destroyable. Cole’s amped up powers result in a lot of hand to hand combat, and that leads to destroyable architecture. There’s a level in the game which shows Cole taking out wooden towers that housed enemies, and watch as they collapse into a heap of timber.

The city itself has a lot of French/German influences evident in the buildings, and the team has gone to great lengths to create somewhere that feels real. While the Shards won’t be back from the first game, Sucker Punch’s Bruce Oberg told said that they want to encourage exploration through the new environs, so look for some sort of collectible to appear in this game.

The Corrupted are things that have been affected by the same event that gave Cole his powers, and since Newmarais is on the edge of prime swampland, that results in some creepy crawlies coming after you. The Ravager is one of the new enemies in this game, and it looks like an extremely nasty, yet diminutive version of the Cloverfield monster, with the mouth of something from Lost Planet. They aren’t easy to take down, but once you do, they squirt yellow ooze into the air during their death throes.

The good news is that Cole has some new tricks up his sleeves in order to take down the new creatures. One of those is his Kinetic Pulse. Using it, Cole can levitate objects (including cars) into the air and hurl them at foes, dealing massive damage. Especially if it happens to explode on contact. Normal melee attacks barely catch the Ravager’s notice, but you can take them down handily with well-placed Kinetic Pulse attacks.

Tons of info there. The inFamous 2 is a PS3 exclusive and will be released next year.