I am quite surprised by all this. Im only slightly angry that shadow has a gun, because as far as the older titles go, he doesn't need one and its just so unnatural. But what im really concerned about are the Heroes graphics, Shadow Model, and physics. The homing attacks show Shadow bounce upward off of an enemy like heroes instead of just going through them in a nice quick line like SA2. He seems to have the heroes running animation where his feet don't seem to be moving as fast as they should, and with no fire coming from his shoes. The wall jumping looks a little cooler in that close up shot, but I imagine its just as crummy as the heroes version of it.
But that Super Sonic flying looks pretty cool and fast. I just hope this game will allow you to keep moving like SA2, and just keep connecting tricks and attacks. That float shooting is alright and looks like it can work its way into the non stop action. And there needs to be a proper spindash in this game.
One more thing, if you all remember from SA to SA2, running through loops and certain obsticles became more smoother and natural looking. In SH it was choppy and awful looking, I hope this game will improve on that and make it look like hes running at the speed hes running at without ugly choppy crap.
In one article about the walk of game at IGN they said something like "amazing new visuals" or something. I hope they saw something cool and we saw a super early ugly version. But I Think its the same one.