It can take some pretty major experimentation to get it right, but I've successfully lowered the oven temps/increased the baking times and gotten pale cheesecake tops in the process. It did take a lot of undercooked/overcooked cakes to achieve this though.
The only thing you're doing when you bake a cheesecake is cooking the raw egg in the batter. Eggs by themselves cook in the 150-160 range but when you dilute them in batter, it takes temperatures in the 1170-180s (or so I've been told). Maillard browning doesn't occur with much speed/intensity until you reach temps of 250+. So, bake your cake at low temps and you should get a nice pale top. Don't go too low though or you might end up with food safety issues.