Better and worse than the first one
The game happens parallelly to the first one, telling three different stories that intersect at the end. The good: much better voice acting, character development, greater environment variety, greater mission variety, same great playability. The bad: no boss fights, frequent crashes between missions with the soldier character (just BEFORE your progress is saved, making it all the worse) on my Win 7 64 Ultimate, badly managed secrets (some levels have none, one has two, most have one - and you're never told, so you never know whether you should try that level again to do better), and finally, the end sequence doesn't really feel like "Yeah, I did it!!!" The playtime is about half of the original game - about 10 hours on Impossible difficulty. Still, I loved the game, and if it wasn't so prone to crashing, I'd recommend it to all fans of 3rd person/top-ish-down-ish shooters.