It's added a little, but also taken a little. But all in all it's a great game.
And it's largely same old same old.
But thats hardly a bad thing.
The addition of the Nail A Trick feature is a nice one.
Allows you a little creativity and flexibility in your tricks, though can be somewhat hard to pull off, or I just suck.
Graphically it's mostly impressive.
Skater movement is more fluid then ever, I think.
The music choices this time round were also good, I actually knew a couple songs which is always a plus.
Perhaps my only qualm with the game comes from the create-a-skater mode. Really. You don't create them at all. You don't get to tweak your height or facial features. You pick from a few preset builds, pick out of a couple different facial arrangements and slap whatever clothes there are available on em and let em go. There isn't an especially good variety of clothing options either.
It's pretty much just more of a good thing.
Free-roaming, skating action.