Not as good as the first game, but it's definitely still trying to be good, there's definitely passion put into it. But where the last game had you fighting white supremacists with stolen nukes, this game just has you fighting ISIS with a stolen strain of anthrax, it's just not the same, it's far more grounded and... well... Boring, I guess. The charm of the Quake 2 engine models has been lost, as everyone has super uncanny eyes now, and while the gore is still present, you aren't going to be splitting heads in half as often as the first game.
It's a good game, absolutely. But the crouching is VERY janky, the weapon swap animations are very slow and likely to get you killed on higher difficulties, the grenades don't follow a satisfying or predictable arc, the levels can sometimes be confusing on where you're meant to go, and you'll find yourself going multiple levels at a time mainly just using one singular weapon because it's the only one getting ammo. But, the combat is nice and chunky, when the game works it's a fantastic power fantasy, and I enjoy the characters, they're not the deepest and some are borderline cartoonish, but they serve their role well.
