This reputation Crytek has on forums for bad gameplay is total rubbish. Crysis, the franchise they're known best for, actually has incredibly fun gameplay. I'd even go so far as to say that Crysis 2 was the most fun I had with a shooter last gen. The only reason people online often like to play down Crytek's abilities is because one, it doesn't serve their agendas that arguably the most visually impressive titles on their systems should be some "crap" multiplat instead of their beloved exclusives so it makes them feel better to say whatever it plays like shit, and two, because the franchise's multiplayer had/has a tremendously high learning curve and as a result most people were complete rubbish at it and got shit on so bad that they mostly quit after a couple days.
People need to stop jumping on bandwagons....