And I am sure the developers will say in an interview "well we've learnt from those mistakes" only for us all to find that it's become a thief version of assassin's creed with terrible controls and no mouse support

and Garrett will have magic, and shields and health that replenishes automatically, and there will be a love interest with a big boobed tree woman.
But it'll have multilayer with dedicated server support.
and it'll use Games For Windows Live.
You just wait