COD is a bit of a stretch, but I don't know what you're seeing that makes you think this isn't incredibly linear. I've played it at both E3 last year and GDC this year, and trust me, this is no Crysis. Halo: Reach is very linear too, but this is even moreso. Understand that even if it were the size of Reach, the design of Reach is very linear. You rarely have more than one way to approach any situation. 

See, in the first Crysis you'd come into an area with an enemy base and you could completely choose how you assaulted that base. Angle, stealthiness, hop the wall, break the front door. All 360 degrees around that base were available to you. In Crysis 2, you come into a clearing, and there are things to fight, and that's it. That's how it works.

Making a slightly more wide-open space than COD is not an accomplishment, nor does it change that the design is linear, when you're limited to a linear approach. Yes, you can stealth, but it's still just suit powers thrown into a Point A to Point B straight line shooter. You're not going to be able to come up with clever plans and traps for your enemies.

CryEngine 3 does not use the PS3's additional processing architecture (I assume SPUs)

no surprise there, and it answers the second bullet if true

Come on Internet. Internet is the day of instant access.

People are already buying the bloody game in US right now. Wheres the bloody reviews.

Media has been able to upload it for over 9 hours now. FFS.

COME ON.

This game is freaking awesome, and I didn't like the first one. It took me 10 hours to finish it and for those comparing it to COD, It is nothing like COD. The scale, how you approach each level.  It's a game on its own league. Crytek deserves a lot of merit for being capable pull off something of this caliber on consoles... the level of detail is insane!!!

What? I read 8.5/10.

Guys I meant actual reviews. Of like the 50 reviewers I actually know of.

The game already out and no reviews... what a hell is this?

I had the chance to pick up the game from my dealer today for $50 ($110 Retail) and I skipped it (bought Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom instead), mainly because barely any reviews from the more trust worthy sites have come up. Hopefully he has more in stock next week, but EA are pretty much trying to convince me to not buy the game. A crummy demo and a ridiculous embargo is going to put a lot of people off.

How did you get that about visuals from those reviews?????

The last says move over Killzone 3. ( Albeit translation is washy. )

The 2nd said although he knows nothing about FPS etc, Crysis 2 etched out many moments which his retinas will never forget.

Yep. It's killing me. And being a UK gamer I have to wait till 25th. :(((((((((((((