/Buzz Killington has entered the forum.
I may have heard wrong, but from my understanding the game isn't being made by the original development team. That could be both good and bad, depending on who's actually making it. Since it sounds like it's barely connected to the original, they could have just made a whole new game but the idea of "new" scared them and they ran to the comfort of the big #2 and put it at the end of the title.
And why go multi-platform all of a sudden? They didn't even want to make it multi-platform after the game became a hit, which just reeks of dickery. Unless they plan to take their time and make sure it works properly on all systems, this release could be a big buggy letdown.