wormholewizards: The first one was really monotonous and flat. Hope in this version, he is more livelier and cheery.
Well, personally, I really liked his voice. I think it being calm, calculated, almost icy fits well with Geralt, a professionnal monster-slayer struck with amnesia and despised by many. I haven't played TW2 yet, but a "livelier" voice should be possible, with his memory slowly coming back.
In any case, it towers far over the French voice. I'm glad my first playthrough was in English, the French Geralt sounds like a shy rookie on a quest to pick up daisies.