^ I dunno, I have Crysis 1 and the xpac and enjoyed it. I've played through until the FDR bridge of Crysis 2 on PC and I like it a lot. It's linear yeah, but still open ended enough and pacing is done really well. It's not linear like CoD. You can still do a lot of things, approach things differently and the gunplay I think is fun. Now the question is if it's worth it for the multiplayer.
It's not totally sandbox anymore I'll give you that, but it's also not way too CoD cloned. I like having some sort of direction in my games. All opinions though =)