Jeez why are you people so like this.
Just because there are no "beautiful" palm trees , no tons of vegetation and no ocean etc etc.... it instantly becomes worse looking than crysis 1 ?!
Try to make a city map for crysis 1, it will never ever look as good as that, not even if you're the best map designer in the universe.
You do realize you can still play Crysis 1 right?? so just head there for your visuals fix.