Hate Episode II all you want, Namco must have listened to fans. Episode III looks like everything we always wanted and finally got. Plus they're bragging it will have 8 hours of cutscenes, which is close to the first. Then again the back cover of Episode I says the game is 80 hours long Namco likes to exaggerate.

The returns of weapons, armor, accesories, shops, techs, specific skills, and an awesome battle system from what I can see. Plus Miyuki and Canaan are fully playable from the get-go and Allen joins in battle temporarily...that's just hilarity incarnate.

http://media.ps2.ign.com/media/757/757372/vids_1.html

Check out the vids and their coverage of it. I'm pretty pumped, Woot indeed!

Jin totally looks like Citan by the way ^_^.