Great Graphics, AI is Dumb and Broken
Crysis 2 starts out with a seriously too long cut scene. The story after that unfolds as has been advertised (human and alien antagonists). You slog through city street after city street shooting enemies blah blah blah then you come to my first complaint: AI gets stuck walking in place! One army guy was standing near a snack machine, which are rendered quite nicely but look all the same building by building, just standing with his gun in hand. I walked up to him uncloaked and began to shoot him and the bullets seem to bounce off! He just stood there breathing heavy.
Then I'm in the subway with infected folks. I decide to help them out and pop them with a few rounds from my gun. They just keep sitting there whining and breathing heavy!
I get to this parking garage where there are lots of army guys. I shoot one and the others just start walking into cars IN PLACE. It's like they can't see the car they are walking in to over and over.
Bad, Bad Bad AI. No doubt about it. Nothing like the first Crysis.
On to the scenery. It's great! Well rendered building and streets are everywhere. The insides remind me of F.E.A.R. but unfortunately its the same junk scattered everywhere. It's the same car models too. The outside views are great but NOTHING like the wide open areas in the first Crysis. This game was seriously dumbed down for the consoles.
Gone is the save game! Checkpoints everywhere but no quick save. I WANT MY QUICK SAVE.
You can't change individual graphics settings like the original either. You can pick good, very good and extreme settings but not tweak it like Crysis. I am glad I have 16 GB of RAM and an ATI 5850 so I can crank up the graphics with one click (sarcasm).
Oh well. I am having fun hence my 8.0 score. I am having more fun on DA2 where I can QUICK SAVE!
Final note. It really isn't Crysis 2. The similarities end with the suit and the name.