I've watched some leaked gameplay vids and I noticed that when the player take weapons of the fallen enemies we dont see his hand reaching out like in Crysis 1. Although this is not big of a deal but I dont know why Crytek made this change, a step backward.

Agreed!

odd...I doubt it's a time/resources issue with the game having been underway for 3 years

I don't know why they would get rid of that feature either. It was a small step forward in gaming, just like looking down and being able to see your legs. They must think us gamers are ridiculously stupid and impatient, so much so that we cant handle multiple powers or innovative, boundry-pushing graphics and gameplay mechanics. I hope we still have it on higher difficulties, if not, well its just another dissapointment for us hardcoe fans.

I always liked that about Crysis, I'd like to see this in C2 as well

If I don't see this in the final release of this game, I hope they patch this in.

Crysis warhead did auto pickup, still, you had to when switching weapons