http://www.warpzoned.com/?p=4885
Which is fairly accurate in many, many ways. The story for the single player game is poor, REALLY poor. I didn't play Crysis 1 and have had to try and do some of my own research but even with that I don't understand where the Ceph came from, why they appeared, what their goal is, for how many days/weeks New York was in such a state and so on...
The graphics part of his review I don't agree with, I thought it they were great graphics, good job there. They are right again however about the AI being bugged to death. During the *SPOILER?* final fight with the four guardians two of them ended up getting stuck trying to climb a wall. Not that epic. There were many occurances throughout the game of dodgy AI getting stuck in seemingly invisible walls. I also agree that there aren't loads of open ended options to be honest. There is one area and two ways of getting through it, sneak by or shoot them all. Even when sneaking by I didn't once have to bother with the picking things up to distract enemies lark as if I was spotted it was pretty easy to just swap in to armor mode and put a silenced marshall round in their face...
As for the multiplayer I do find it really, really fun however there are a few points:
Why has the kill limit for Instant Action and score limit for Crashsite been reduced from the Beta? Seems stupid...
Hit / Assist detection is really off. Either I haven't got hitmarkers and still got an assist or I have got a hitmarker, seen him die half a second later and got no assist?
Hosting seems poor. I don't think I've ever once been in a game where anyone other than the host was at a full 4 green bar connection.
Sounds... You really cannot rely on the sound to tell you anything in this game. Noises seem to be coming from completely random directions half the time and killcams have absolutely awful matching of sound to what is actually occurring in the killcam. Would also be nice if the killcams lasted a bit longer (but only if they loaded faster...)
Music, music seems to start playing over MP at random times for no reason, also the heavy "game about to start" lobby music to get you going must have the most stupid amount of bass on it. Even with my speakers turned down as low as possibly it would still distort horribly.
Every 5 tag streak seems weak compared to maximum radar. Nanosuit Jammer, does it even do anything lol?
I really don't want to get in to weapon balancing as that is where everyone really has a good old moan, everything seems pretty balanced to me. I've not tried using a sniper for any greath length of time and I get killed by them so rarely I guess there's a reason people aren't using them but whatever.
So, in summary:
A gorgeous singleplayer campaign, just a shame about the story and AI (or lack thereof).
Multiplayer has a few problems but is still really enjoyable and a great feature.