Its a port through and through. I felt that everything was a lower quality production than the first. I would have actually liked the game had everything been less blurry, but only as free to play.
1. The nanosuit
The whole suit feels dumbed down. The only reasonably good thing that has happened is the combination of speed and strength. Even that probably shouldn't have been changed, maybe the high jump put in speed but thats it. Now armor is a draining ability??? last time, armor would only drain if you got shot. Long story short, the nanosuit got limited, dumbed down, and made into an inferior model from the original.
2. The graphics
They got worse.
The screen is now blurry. They've added in a headbob which is awful, I turned it off immediately. Just a lot of bloom.
3. The gameplay
Crysis was a game that lent itself well to the battlefieldesque gameplay in MP. Honestly, I was really looking forward to playing in a city, I feel that the game would be excellent with even 24 players in a conquest gametype. The ability to go almost anywhere with the suit would have made for some very interesting firefights with flanking and attacks from all levels and some really cool squadplay.
What they have is a CoD clone (I mean exactly the same) with a nanosuit gimick. The speed of the players (carrying over from the nanosuit) is both too fast and too slow at the same time. The basic speed (given that the base suit function is the speed/strength mix) is too fast for the mapsize. The sprint, compared to Crysis, is far too slow. In Crysis, the speed sprint was to haul *** over a huge distance in seconds. Now, its nowhere near what it was, you move faster, like a normal sprint should be.
Your life expectancy is 30 seconds on a good life. Its run, shoot, die. Rinse and repeat. The maps tiny size only make this worse.
Movement feels off, hit detection is sketchy, game lag when Im running 20 ping. The FPS would stay constant, but there would be delays in shots/sudden speedups where half the clip would be instantly out (3 bullets for every one fired). I had chest shots and misses count as headshots and visa versa.
And that is just the game itself, Im not even going to start on how glaringly obvious it is that this is a direct console port. Any thoughts I had on getting this before it finds itself in the $10 bin are gone. And ill only get it if the singleplayer is decent. The game is pure wasted potential.