Agreed with most of what has been said.
I'm waiting to see how good the custom character experience is. DOS2 was great game but not an immersive one -- I was playing someone else's story and not mine. Again, while it was fun to play as the Red Prince I wouldn't ever say that the red lizard was 'my' character like my BG2 characters were mine. And if you played a custom character in DOS2 you lost out on much of the story.
Hope those who play EA make this point loudly and repeatedly. The custom characters experience should be as good or better than the premade character experience.