I don't remember what I expected from the 4th installment anymore. :)
But considering my then-pragmatic pessimism, I was probably expecting just a commercial project, a kind of 3rd game with slightly improved graphics, created with the sole purpose of extracting money from fans :D
Instead, I got something completely different... A very good and original game! The fact that it's not like the 3rd game is actually a plus: there's no point in making dozens of identical games, and NWC did a good job by deciding to experiment... They just didn'