Episode II News you say?

Yasunori Mitsuda will not be doing the work this time. Yuki Kajiura(fame from the Music of .Hack//Sign and Noir) as well as Shinji Hosoe (Recent works include Metroid Prime and Metroid Fusion).

Dual Techs will be used.

There is probably a lot more but those are the biggest changes that I see outside of graphics. I wonder how the game data will be carried over. I have yet to read anything on that one yet.