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Okay, Marvel fans... we know many of you weren’t happy with the last Hulk movie. Maybe the director of Brokeback Mountain wasn’t the best choice, but... All hail Ed Norton! He’s here to make all things right in the land of Banner, as the star (and writer?!) of the upcoming film, The Incredible Hulk. And as you might have expected, he’s also lending his charisma to the game, along with Liv Tyler and other principle members of cast.
Since it was first unveiled last year, we’ve seen InFamous 2 bring a lot of cool enhancements to the first game’s formula – a livelier city, more diverse enemies, better visuals, super-powered sidekicks and improved combat, for starters. At a closed-door session at GDC today, however, developer Sucker Punch revealed one more.
“We’re fixing the biggest problem of InFamous 1,” said Suckerpunch’s development director, Chris Zimmerman, during the event. “At some point, it ended.”
Assuming you read the headline, you already know what the solution is...
In case there’s still any lingering doubt, let’s clear something up right away: Yes, the tousle-haired, tattooed, teen-voiced superhero you may have seen in the InFamous 2 trailer is Cole McGrath. And no, the game isn’t a prequel. At a special closed-door E3 session, reps from Sucker Punch made it clear they knew the internet isn’t entirely happy with Cole’s redesign – or with his new, younger-sounding voice actor...
PAX might be an expo for and by gamers, but that still doesn’t mean everything there is open to the public. For example, anyone who wanted to play InFamous 2 could get their hands on a brief demo featuring the same fight and chase scenes that were shown off at this year’s E3 (albeit with the balder, uglier new/old design for Cole McGrath), but the new stuff was being shown only behind closed doors, at a hotel down the street from the convention proper.
“New” in this case meant a look at a previously unseen portion of New Marais, InFamous 2’s New Orleans-inspired, thug-controlled setting. During the brief, hands-off demo of next year’s open-world superhero sequel, we got to watch Cole wreak havoc in an open, swampy-looking area filled with trees and vine-covered plantation-style buildings. It was also filled with armed goons belonging to the Militia, an anti-superhero vigilante group described during E3 as a cross between the KKK and Batman...
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