Yeah it has been quiet. Quiet before the gaming storm to come I think. I have my eyes on this one too, more so mainly because it looks to be one of the real, true next generation games to come out shortly. I have played some of the first one years later. I actually just bought I2 and the graphics are much better. I like having another game outside of the Assassin's Creed world that lets you scale just about any surface or ledge. I was impressed with the game's intro with the "Beast" showing up. I just really wish they implemented ragdolls into the second one. I don't know why they wouldn't with such a power infused, manipulation game like Infamous.
I've seen some videos with the weather and day night cycle work that they've done in their Seattle game world and it looks awesome. They better have ragdoll in this one by golly because its almost a crime they didn't in the first two when the techs been around for over a decade!
Did you ever play Psi-Ops Mace? I had that on the original xbox and that was a pretty cool game manipulating physics and flinging fools around and levitating your self on objects across drop offs.