My 2 cents:
Graphics are great, but better than Uncarted 2 or Killzone 3? Nope. Most of the time there's nothing happening in the scenery. look at the ocean waves and detail in the artic maps of Killzone3!
Ai sucks, sucks, sucks. This should have been a major part of rating a game. giving it a 9.4 was a joke, right? Killzone 3's ai is so much better. It does provide comic releif, though, look at that guy running back and forth!
The game has too much amo. It's everywhere. And guns. Stockpiles of the same guns and amo everywhere.
Many sections you just walk through, no action whatsoever. Others just require that you find a good hiding spot, cloak, shoot, hide, repeat. Or find the limits of the roaming of the enemy. But at this point you don't think of them as Ai, it's more like figuring out an arcade game, like circus atari.
The aliens don't do a dam thing for me. Scary? Not.Interesting? Nope. Boring? Yup.
The 3d implementation looks tacked on and sucks also. Particles are not 3d, they are fixed at infinity no matter how close you are. Same with the water from waterfalls, and the laser sight. The 3d space is mostly flat, like only the forground object's 3d is computed. Looking through some glass in windows causes a loss of 3d. The sides of the screen have a ribbon of reversed image, perhaps they did that to save framerate? The weapons also have a halo of reversed image around them, meaning they are using some sort of hack to get some 3d perhaps? Although killzone3 in 3d has texture loading issues in the Jungle map, it otherwise was vastly supperior, everything was 3d.
BUT, i'm still enjoying it, it has a Half Life2 feel. I like the somewhat openess of the maps, I hate COD's linear 'run to the next checkpoint after we figure out the script' gameplay. But i'd only give Crysis2 a 8.0 right now, sorry. It needs a total recoding of it's AI, add more gameplay and remove some amo, fix the 3d issues. Maybe add some aliens that scare me? Farcry had that, you could die with one swat from those buggers!
