The Riftrunner website says the game will offer total party control. Tell us more.

Divinity 1 players just had followers in the form of summoned creatures. Riftrunner allows players to micromanage their party if need be. The two dominant party members are you and your unwilling soul mate - a death knight that gets soul-forged to you. The other party members are either summoned creatures or people you recruit along the way.

How will the new reputation system affect the gameplay?

It won't have too high an impact on the main story line - but it will have quite an effect on the computer-generated gameplay and on some of the subquests. Don't worry: We won't let reputation interfere with the receiving of pre-scripted quests since we got a lot of negative feedback about that in Divinity 1. It's a different situation with the generated ones. Don't expect to be given an assignment in a kindergarten if you kill everyone all the time.