I've always liked the Banjo games and actually preferred the original to Super Mario 64.  I dunno, there was something about that first level where I crawled to the top of that ant hill from the inside and then managed to stand on top and could see across the entire level that brought up a "holy shit" moment back then.  The entire game (save for that halloween town one) was like that.  My only problem with the games (and consequently, eventually with Donkey Kong 64) was how much junk you had to collect.  Notes, Jinjos, Jiggy pieces, red feathers, yellow feathers, honeycombs, honeycomb hex parts... it goes on and on.  Donkey Kong 64 was the worst offender as each of the five Kongs had their own set of crap to collect, all a specific color which was a cheap to way to lengthen a game that already would have been rather lengthy without all that.

But I digress.

This Banjo game actually looks pretty cool to me and the scale of the world is pretty amazing.  Rare talking that it's 16 times larger than anything they've ever done, which is pretty amazing considering how big Kameo was.  I'm not exactly sold on the vehicle building stuff though outside of the initial "that's pretty cool" factor, but watching the videos and seeing cars leaping off cliffs or hovering and then becoming gliders makes it hard to hate that feature.

this looks awesome

i loved banjo1 didnt play 2 and from your posts i was expecting some kind of crap but this really does look awesome

kameo was pretty regular size when you took into account the amount of the world you actually needed to visit, and the amount that was completely useless.

True, I suppose.  I just figured it might be relative as I can see this game easily having a lot of useless open space as well.  With emphasis being on vehicular exploration and such, I can definitely see some skimping on overall detail as the player won't necessarily have to trek through every portion of the game.