I have a bad feeling that it will be the same system and you can just change your leader mid-battle. That's an improvement for sure, but, again, it's the same system.

In the old FF games there was the option to set battles to 'Active' or 'Wait' mode. For strategists like myself, Wait mode was perfect. I want the action to literally freeze while I make a decision. Whether that be for one command or a string of commands (to speed battles up) is fine. I just want the ability to choose my actions carefully and be able to choose them for each character. This will not work in the battles of FFXIII since the action is so quick that you need the AI to keep your party alive. So I'm hoping for something a little slower with more control. Kind of the opposite of X to X-2, where FFX had the slow strategic battles and X-2 had the faster paced active battles (but the pacing was perfect and you could still control all your characters).

Now I know why this game is being developed so quickly. It's just the same game. =/