Imo, Crytek have done a great job with the amount of health and 2-hit kill melee attack. It allows for you to actually have CQC fights and not just rely on who presses the automatic knife lunge button first.

Yesterday I was playing Crash Site on Wall st, and ended up in CQC with a Sniper, who was aiming down on one of the crash sites my team were occupying. I hadn't seen him at range because I'd just jumped in the window next to him. What followed was great fun, and involved strafing and meleeing and attempting to make enough space to use my shotgun. I Won the battle in the end with punches, but even though it only lasted a few seconds I have to say it was probably the best CQC I've been able to play; except maybe in Aliens vs Predator.

Bottom line, I think the higher health in comparison to games like CoD, and the 2-hit melee make for better CQC.

Well in Real Life melee is meant to be a LAST RESORT, and 2-hits is still excessive especially considering it ISN'T a knife

Well I dont get panic knifed in this so yeh. Its good.

Agreed, melee in this game is really fun. Especially like the pistol + face punch variant.

Well sometimes melee bugs aswell they KO u without hitting u once, when ur in armor mod happend several times

The Melee attacks aren't consistant enough, I constantly find myself hitting people 2-3 times for them to only turn around and shoot me down and vise versa once or twice.

It eneds to be tweaked a bit imo but other then that I agree, it's a far better system then what most FPS games can offer.

Halo kind of set the standard before crysis 2

Although i agree, insta melee kills are stupid.

meh, sod Halo and your sixbox! :p

2 hits is okay, but you can melee anywhere and it still hits. That svcks.