Then be depressed. You asked a question. You got an overwhelming answer. The water in C2 svcks. C1 / Wars water is much better. Of course, pretty much anything is better in C1 / Wars. C2 is a total XBox console port after all.
Thats alot of crap you are spitting there. Crysis 2 looks gorgeous and besides of the water it looks ALOT better than Crysis 1/Warhead. The textures arent mashy and flat like they are in Crysis 1 and they pulled all that off on DX9. Imagine DX11 with its tesselation and now tell me Crysis 1 does stand a chance against Crysis 2.

Lol, another fanboy who talks out of his azz and probably has never played C1 or Wars. Your on an Xbox, aren't you?
Nope. Been building gaming rigs for 3 years now and Im faithfull to my PC. Next time base your assumptions of actual clues.

Then be depressed. You asked a question. You got an overwhelming answer. The water in C2 svcks. C1 / Wars water is much better. Of course, pretty much anything is better in C1 / Wars. C2 is a total XBox console port after all.
Thats alot of crap you are spitting there. Crysis 2 looks gorgeous and besides of the water it looks ALOT better than Crysis 1/Warhead. The textures arent mashy and flat like they are in Crysis 1 and they pulled all that off on DX9. Imagine DX11 with its tesselation and now tell me Crysis 1 does stand a chance against Crysis 2.

Play much Crysis/Warhead?

According to the CryEngine documentation, the water in C1 and C2 are created pretty much in the same way (on PC, consoles use cheaper technique). Could anyone point out what exactly it is the water is lacking in C2 that it had in C1?

Beauty, for one. One guy on YouTube ported over Beach to C2. Watching the video, the water looks like ****. Flat, dull, and ugly. In fact, while disregarding missing textures, the whole map in general looked pretty ugly on C2. Just bland and ugly.

Judge for yourself -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfDlSwaiEAM

Saw the video and the comments:

The lighting and water is really? bad. Thanks for showing us that.
Logan9773

@Logan9773 Its actually? all fixed now.
Pearlspiracy43

So, I'd like to see how it's fixed before jumping into the "OMG" train.