I played Crysis Demo about 2 hours and I can finally talk about good and bad points:
Well, you're right BP, it's really similar to FarCry so nothing new about gameplay (even vehicles are pratically the same), but seems they increased game speed and that's a good point. It remembers me the fast Quake 3 Engine.
The game is really easy (the demo of course), with that Hi-Tech suit, really Cool of course, you move and act like a God, you can slash about 15 soldiers in a minute...you can be invisible, jump on buildings and run faster than a Jeep (FarCry was HARDER!)...moreover enemies aren't so smart as I expected, AI could be better IMO.
I really like how you can interact with objects (throw them away or destroy them all >
) and it's nice to see prints on the sand and trees that fall down under your bullets
About graphics...well...it's incredible and really well done, but we all know that a game can't have only a good engine.
Let's hope for a good story