Ah, I wasn't sure what platform you were hoping for it on, but yeah, it's already out for some platforms in some places.
As far as the whole 'treating players like adults', that could easily go both ways. On the one hand, being dumped into the storyline without any guidance is great and immersive - if you're familiar with all the controls and expectations, and with the 'fourth' game in the series, it could be argued that you should be.
On the other hand, the way the story has flowed through the previous games, you were never at a good point story-wise to jump into it unless you played from the first game, or at least had an idea of what went on in the first game onwards. But story-wise this is a great jumping in point.
My take on it is that if you're familiar with the series already, being treated like an adult and not lead by the nose for a bit is fantastic. I was more taken aback by the fact that we've had 5 games where you were lead around by the nose and suddenly we're not any more. I didn't expect it, and that was the problem. After having gotten around that idea, it works so much better because you don't have to learn how to be awesome, you're already fully tooled up on awesomeness.
(I will admit, there is some direction about ship combat the first time you do it but only because it's not entirely identical to III's ship combat, though anyone who prevailed at III's should be able to pick it up anyway)
But if you're not, you might find it a real headache to pick it up because of the otherwise high learning curve.
