Not necessarily better gameplay but changed gameplay. Could be better, could be worse.

The question is whether EA will tap the power of the new hardware, especially the multicore CPUs which would let them model physics.

Some expect that the first next-gen games will use just one of the cores and then later waves will explore using all the threads and cores available to do things like physics and advanced AI.

But the EA pattern has been to build one engine and tweak it throughout the generation, not make radical changes to it.

So how much will EA push the technology? They acquired Criterion and Renderware so who knows, if they plan to continue selling Renderware to other developers, they will have to continually refine it, meaning EA-Tiburon may have more of an incentive to stay on the techology curve.