No it's not. I played about 12 hours into it once. It's really very similar to the first one as far as story progression goes. What's cool about though is in the beginning, as opposed to just choosing your main character, you choose the other two characters you'll encounter during your play through to complete the party of 3. So depending on who your main character is and who you choose to meet the story is a little bit different each time. Which adds some nice replay value