Just wanted to share what I think about all this.
 
 Constructive feedback:
 
- One bigger mistake the level designers at Guerrilla are repeating from KZ1 is unecessary obstacles in the environment. In KZ1 it was a way to design around hardware specs but in KZ2 you can clearly see the whole field at moments. How many times have you seen the area with the barbed wire confusing players with them standing on the 'wrong side' taking down the Helghast. Going through trenches and such is okay enough but there's too much unecessary minute hindrance in your levels. Corinth River is a pretty spaceous level but there are occasions where the player felt constrained. I think it's absolutely vital that you try to give the player as much leg space as humanly possible in each environment. Does that mean you can't have indoor environments..etc? No, not all. Just make sure you stow away all the uneccessary objects and make the path as easy as possible to traverse. It's a combat focused game and we love, love our leg space. We want to breath and I think it's vital that the level designers at Guerrilla start to notice. And no, you may have one or two totally open levels but that is not compensation. It is not. Give us leg space please.
 
 
 
- A mission objective for every 50m seems way too frequent. This also somewhat ties in with what I mentioned above. Also, try to use less scripted events, too much button pushing and fiddling, focus more on combat. I think you will end up having quite more robust game that way (a heavily scripted campaign may be ideal if you want to serve us tons of expensive slow-to-make eye candy but as a player I very rarely come back to these games. I never come back to HL these days even if I finish every chapter and that game is considered world-class, Resistance & Halo are fun games to return to). I see you have hired this guy which sounds promising. He's seemingly deeply focused on more 'free-form' a.i.
 
 
 
- Cut all the edgy macho talk. Haze is being downright laughed at, mocked for having hilariously bad npc chatter (a history of KZ1 as well somewhat). There are occasions when KZ2 goes there.
 
People under fire don't speak long elaborate jokes about pimping at bordels or whatever. It's can be downright embarassing to listen to.
 
Now.. good combat chatter does exist.
 
"Prepare to die" Rico says. That I am totally cool with. It sets the mood and all that. The conversation the team had flying down in the E3 07 demo was very realistic.
 
Unless it's somewhat related to objectives or story then keep it short and concise. You don't have to have less lines but shorter lines and less elaborate jokes (preferly none).
 
Before this is misunderstood, this isn't a rant against crude language, I'm totally okay with that. Keep the messages short and concise.
 
 With all that said, kudos absolutely must be given. Every aspect of your graphics engine and artistic sense is absolutely mind blowing. The last time I saw cutting-edge technology blend so well with a strong artistic direction was probably MGS2 when it debuted back in 2000. KZ2 has taken that role this gen. Looking at every other console game out there I must assign all of this to witchcraft. Absolutely amazing. The end result is that I'm positive that a gigantic crack team of artists and visual engineers sat down and studied all forms of cg and why it works. How you blend the multitude of post-processing effects with motion capture, physics impulses, lighting & shadowing..etc. It creates an unparalleled image, something even games like Crysis (a game which can check of every graphical effect in the book, also running on quite superior hardware) cannot match simply due to the artistic sense and brains behind the images seen in KZ2. It's mindblowing. I would also congratulate Guerrilla with the downright best gunplay in the business. How you have balanced immersion (with this meaning you're actually controlling a human being) with striking graphics and cause-and-effect.. you totally nailed it. Cheers.

My only concern is about the " cure / help "  system on your allies. It would be cool to have an animation to help your comrade lying on the ground grabing them and putting them to cover.
 
And maybe having your character breathing after long times of rush ,  or caughing after crossing a cloud of smoke ? =)
 
But it looks certainly good. I was also a little bit disapointed to see some Soldiers corpes or bodies disappearing after being taking down. But hope this will be fixed