First of all I'm really happy that this game emulates so well, I'm extremely impressed by PS3 emulation and I'm only hoping every AC game onwards emulates as well.
Now, onto the game.
Well, the best way to describe it is that it's different, very different.
Overall gameplay has changed extremely drastically; your AC is much faster, areas are MUCH bigger, and boosting now doesn't even take your energy unless you're flying. The older games are much more strategic in what you needed to use and how to do it, this one is very straightforward instead. This does lead to balance that is clearly towards light ACs, no matter what I did I could never make a quad AC work as well as my simple super lightweight AC, specially since heavy weapons, such as the back cannon, have very heavy recoil that stops you on your tracks, and not moving 24/7 like it's fucking Doom Eternal is an objectively bad strategy. There's also a lot less parts than the previous installments, for example there's only around 6 heavy back weapons, 2 quad legs and 2 tank threads. Nonetheless, I can excuse some of these changes as the game is very different from previous installments like I mentioned. Even the plot is different, having less of a feel towards being a simple mercenary and more of being a heroic soldier.
Overall, it is an interesting take on the series, and I do wonder what will For Answer be like.