Slamooh said it best. Without flickit i'm not interested.
The beauty of flick it for me is he pure level of control. I played THPG the other day and while the sim mode is good, the tricks looked so forced and generic.
It will be interesting to see if they go for a sim type game or smash out another arcade title.
I really dislike the idea of levels too. The open city is such a huge plus (well it was in s1 and s2) the 3 areas from skate 3 make mad!