Their main focus was not graphics this time, it was performance and portability to consoles, this, developers themselves said.

I played the demo both on pc and xbox, imho one of the best looking xbox games so far.

This is what they say currently. Formerly they advertised the graphics and told that PC will be the lead platform much better looking. Fans trusted them and are disappointed now. Of course the XBox people are happy, no question.

And Gamestar still gave it 90 points? Way to go...

Well, the big money currently seems to be made on the consoles, so computer gamers can probably be happy that there at least are pc versions of some games. Which I think are mostly there, because it is usually no extra work to make an xbox game run on a pc, which makes it some easy to make extra money.
I didn´t play the game myself yet, but so far everyone told me that the gameplay is much better than in Crysis.

I would by the way love to see some directx 11 only pc game pushing current hardware to the limits, but I think that this has to wait until the next generation of consoles comes out, at least if there will be a next one...

there will always be a new console generation. "insiders" always say something like : "last generation" or "probably last console" but truth is, they are saying this since the NES days. some people just complain, and others will believe it. always...

This generation will seem longer than it is while we are passing through it, but in the end we'll see it isn't much longer than normal. This is partly due to the fact that game companies are not redesigning their consoles altogether with each new generation, but making progressive upgrades between generations now.

As for Crysis 2, I've never played the original, nor do I plan to play this one. My older brother is all for Crysis, but he doesn't know anything about what makes a game great...

So i finally buyed Crysis 2 and i´m BAFF!! The game is really great, grafically not that much, but the gameplay is awesome! You have so many choises to go to your destination. The AI is very smart. It still has some Bugs, but you won´t notice them!
Also the Multiplayer is much different from BFBC2 or Call of Duty. Again you have a lot of tactical possibilities. The Syncro is also great!
I only can recommend this.
I only like games because of the gameplay not because of gfx.

The videos really look like it is a fun game. Still many people complain about a lot of things. They claim it is weaker than Crysis1 in many aspects, not only graphics, they wrote that areas are smaller, no open level design, way less vehicle combat, less physics, less destructible objects, less options to adapt system settings. Auto aim had to be patched away from the PC game.

All these points make sense to me. They had to optimize for consoles and had to sacrifice something. Many PC gamers just expected a new amazingly revolutionary FPS shooter. That is probably the reason why they are disappointed.

I personally understand Crytek from the deveoper point of view the same like I understand the gamers from their point of view. It is really hard to tell.

Anyway, Crytek did a great job to make a good multi-platform game. The question remains if that is enough to deliver the best PC game. But they did everything right to be commercially successful.

singleplayer...

I bought it a few hours ago for xbox but I am deeply disapointed. I never played crysis 1 so I didn´t know anything about the principle of the super suit. But it is nothing more then a few tactic elements like in splinter cell, a little bit jump´n run and very very bad shooting. A so shameful fucking bad elemental blood effect and the standard ragdoll.
The weapons have no hard feeling and the whole shit is extremly emotionless.
It is simply no fun - and the grafics...? I didn´t saw a big difference to the last core games like COD MW2 or even Killzone, the second (!). 70 Euros for a fuck shitting die game.

then... some freaks told me, that they didn´t liked bulletstorm. So I bought it, because I am a really great fan of GOW. Bulletstorm is not so cool from the grafics, not so tactical like crysis... but the language is cool (die you fucking cock suckers), you can really fuck the enemies so fuck shitting hard and it is such a great motherfucking fun.
I deeply disrespect games like crysis which want to tell me, that they are very hard and cool but are nothing mor then footage for old stupid moms and little girls.

That is exacly the best description for criysis 2.
Crysis is a fucking game for little girls which are very like to wear pink cloths