yes, but only in perhaps two respects:

1. what the smurf they did to johnny gat
2. less love than in SR2 in regards to missions. eg no more cutscenes before/after all of them and reusing activities as missions was a bit sloppy.

Other than that, it was smurfing amazing. I feel I may have hyped it up a bit too much in my head beforehand though. If I look beyond my own hype I'm happy.