Thought I would ask this question considering there are so many naysayers complaining about graphics. While I appreciate the beauty of games, I could care less if the graphics svck as long as the gameplay is outstanding.

Personally, Crysis 1 looked phenomenal to me, but I quickly lost interest as I realized it played with a sack of bricks on its back. The multiplayer was exactly the same, worse even, with all the imbalances. Crysis 2 is really fun. Sure, it may not be a huge technological step forwards, but Crytek told us this--the company is not focused on choking your GTX580s, but on providing a solid product that looks and plays a little better than anything else out there at the moment.

While they may not have succeeded, what with all the bugs and texture complaints, but overall I believe they did quite well, and I think the game deserves to be successful. In no time we'll see mods to improve your textures, and patches to fix the bugs. We've already been told a DX11 patch is in the future. This game needs a little time to sort out its target audience, which unfortunately does not necessarily include the hardcoe Crysis 1 fans that dominate these forums.

Your opinions, please...

@fawstoar:
There won't be any modding.
Encrypted pak files.
Locked CVars (from about 3700 to 47 usable)

Love this game. I still love Crysis 1 just as mch, but the true beauty of this game is the (in my opinion) perfect balance between the differences that separate it from Crysis and the elements they retained.