"Partnered" with Ultor seems a bit much, I'd rather think they took Ultor over after the events of SR2. Also, I love the little head shake the FBI agent gives when the player starts blazing bullets at the beginning of the shootout, like "ugh, whatever, you got this".
Shaundi looks kind of cool, and I'm glad to see they're bringing back important characters from the second game. I still want to know what happened to the old gang leader from the first game (I love Keith David).
They tend to change the way the "player" looks in the cinematic footage; for SR2, they had a model of a tough black guy, and now it's more an athletic white guy. I don't know what it was for the first game, but I can see why they don't keep it to one specific thing.
Anyway, props to Volition, I am definitely buying this game. Maybe pre-ordering it, depending.