Nice to see a return to his original design. His appearance in Radiant Dawn was too muscle-y for my tastes.
That was also supposed to be an older/more grizzled from war Ike, though.
... Plus, frankly, I thought it kind of fit him after how he went from a rookie that looked like this to being a rampaging monster that Aethered his way through whole armies solo by the last/bonus stages of Path of Radiance (little wonder they nerfed the crap out of Aether after that...), and was this Big Boss-style legend by Radiant Dawn.