Crysis 2 and my boat load of fail with it...

So I eagerly bought Crysis 2 along with countless others as it looked like it played well.. the demo seemed ok but with the issues raised from the beta they would be fixed..

I played through the Single player campaign for a few hours and in fairness I loved it.. the suit ability's along with balancing them out and having a tactical option was fun and brought something new to the FPS genre for me ..

GFX seemed stable enough and there was an amazing amount of detail in there as well which I found stunning but also started to notice some very dodgy AI routines but put it down to bugs and would be patched in time... 2 patches came and then the problems started ..at this point I had NOT ventured online

After a few hours I noticed a nasty looking grainy look came over the game and starting to make the game look a little poor and after a look on the official mycrysis forums was a EPIC problem that Crytek had failed to fix.

At this point I ventured online.. I plump for Instant action (Free For All) and immediately get dropped into a lagfest of epic proportions.. I think this does not bode well..

And indeed it doesn't .. let me explain

Hit detection is nigh on non existent and more of a Lag lottery and Host advantage is a nigh on game killer for everyone in the lobby bar the host ofc.. constant host migrations along with getting booted back to the main screen.. Being in FULL Armour doesn't mean shit as most one on one fights tend to turn into a lag lottery and the kill-cam wasn't a true representation of what actually happened.. and this is after 2 patches and begin to think its my connection but other shooters such as MW2 and MW1 play fine ..

Many a time I would chase someone down empty a full clip into them and they would turn around and kill me with 3 bullets or so.. it just seemed to get worse the more I played as there was that many bugs the online just seemed to deteriorate into a mess but in fairness the game had potential to be something good but with the amount of bugs present I felt cheated of my money and in fairness I shouldn't be surprised as many games now ship half made so to speak...

So today I caved and traded it in ..

A quick scan over the official forums shows the amount of frustration many a gamer such as myself are feeling with the game and the Devs themselves are not very forthcoming with information in regards to when a patch is due ... so in turn Crytek are killing the game off in a way as they don't part with information to keep gamers in the loop which imo is the worst possible thing a Game dev can do..

Any further releases wont be top of to buy list thanks to that... but should a patch be released that fixes the game I may buy the game again but time will tell...

In fairness the game has so much potential but let down by so many frustrating bugs it kills any sort of competitiveness in the Multi-player which it should thrive on and to think the amount of people are complaining about the same things over and over and no info given etc beggars belief sometimes ..