I share your enthusiasm for the Cryengine 2 and the modability of crysis 1.
But i think its sad that it turns out Crytek really failed to optimize their game back then.
If even low end hardware consoles can run this game .. the fastest grfxcard in 2007 should have maxed the game out without any flaws. ( It was actually almost unplayable on very high on a GTx 8800)
Its also very sad that the PCgamers are waiting for a game that is state of the art in 2011. ( Maybe/ hopefully Battlefield 3)