I liked Crysis a lot and also liked Crysis 2 a lot. There are things I liked better with Crysis than Crysis 2, but there are also areas where Crysis 2 is better. The main thing that Crysis 2 does better is to mix up the missions where you fight alien and human enemies. In Crysis, you fought humans in the first part, which was fun and fought flying aliens in the second part, which wasn't that fun. Crysis 2 doesn't have any flying aliens, but it does have plenty of aliens and the first ones showed up a couple of hours into the game. Even late in the game, you still get to fight some humans, though, which is a nice change. While the aliens are more fun to fight than in Crysis, they're still less fun to fight than humans and the armored aliens are even less fun, but then again, bullet sponge enemies are rarely fun.

Crysis 2 isn't as open as Crysis, since you're in a ruined Manhattan instead of an island, but I still felt like there were more than one way to get across the area. This, together with a few other things made the game feel like I had access to significantly more options than other, more linear, more restricted FPS games. Just the fact that you can jump really high and grab hold of ledges made this game much more fun. You can also pick up and throw various items, including a generous amount of explosive barrels.

What I don't like about Crysis 2 compared to Crysis is that they've seemed to reduce the number of suit powers. There is no speed power, instead you can simply sprint until you use up your energy. I think the enhanced strength power is always active, but can only be used with button prompts, like when you're near a car it says "press F to power kick". Not a lot of them to kick around and rarely in a spot where you can use it to tactical advantage. This makes it feel like you have less ways to play around with the suit powers than Crysis.

The two-weapon limit is a decision where I'm like "I'm not surprised, but I am disappointed", because I mainly play old-school shooters without this limitation. There are plenty of good weapons, but I would have liked to be able to carry at least 3 or 4 guns at any time. Perhaps there is a mod for that, since the main menu does have a Mods section.

Crysis 2 has much better endgame content than Crysis, but I got a bit tired of shooting aliens before it actually ended. Well, it wasn't too long and I had fun most of the way, so I definitely recommend this to people who liked Crysis or FPS games in general.

When I was playing this game on stream to my IRL friends, I was inside of like this decontamination room with this big ♥♥♥♥♥♥ orange ass tube and the lens flare inside of it was insane so like everything was orange so I literally said "it's so orange" and my friend started bursting with laughter extremely hard for like 2 minutes straight because I said that

Very good story, played before having Steam so I don't have all my wasted hours recorded. No longer open world, still good game.