Na, it feels like it's just bug filled garbage to me.
Feels like they had to much money to work on it by then or it was a completely different team trying to mimic the original.
Great game don't get me wrong, just soooo buggy it's unplayable, I gave it the good ol college try but the 3rd or 4th time my save was corrupted I bailed.
I did actually figure out what was causing it it happened every time I switched from low detail to high and you solved it by turning off that feature or something like that it's be years now.
By that point I was souared on the whole thing and it wasn't like that was the only bug