I know everyone is miffed and jaded about where this seems to be heading and even though they have dropped the name and say "NAW ITS A REINVENTING OF THE OLD STUFF" that just makes me more worried that they are not focused enough.

I have faith and going back to play Tricky and 3 recently have just made me think how truly great this game can be if it has the tricks and the boosts and the ubers! I am super excited and I guess E3 is the next place to check it out but I don't want to get over hyped and be fooled.

So one of my complaints with previous ones is that they was limited tracks and sure it was fun to master every section of every race but it obviously got repetitive. So HOT DAMN have they sorted that problem! Here is an interview for GT and the head of design claims between 250 - 300 tracks! Now that insane and there is probably some bad wording or trickery in the way each on can be played in 3 different ways or something but the amount of peaks they are talking out compared to 3 in the previous title. I AM SUPER HYPE! I just don't want it to suck so much!
INTERVIEW: 
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/franchise-relaunch-ssx-deadly/713061

EDIT: Also button controls and not Skate controls is a fantastic announcement!

SSX3 might be one of my favourite games, so if this turns out to be a massive departure (and fails), I'll be uber upset.

Didn't SSX3 try and go the 'lots of different tracks' route?
I think that's why SSX3 was disappointing in my eyes... part of the magic of Tricky was how carefully crafted each track was.... no different to the tracks on a Mario Kart game. Learning the quirks and secrets of each one was part of the fun.

My biggest worry about this game is lack of effort put into crafting the mountains, i don't want a race full of randomly generated jumps and rails