That's good! Driving the car is going to be so much more fun now to do now that there's more control over it. And if driving is going to be a big thing in the game then its good to have more control, but yeah the Chocobo's can be off road, the trains I'm wondering how the trains will work, and the airship is going to be amazing!
What's also great and very immersive to me, there is significant car damage (it can even break down completely) which is quite expensive to fix over at Cindy's. So like in real life you will basically be urged to drive very careful anyway if you are not loaded with gil. That's imo an even cooler approach than in GTA or other such games where you can do crazy stuff with your car and it is completely fixed when you reload the game...or you just ditch the car and steal a new one. (Well it is kinda fun too...XD I have to play GTAV again sometime...)