Alright fine, I've been won over. This one kicks ass, and yeah, it's better than 1. I think 1 has a simplicity to it that I really love, but god the highs in this are some of the best the FPS genre has to offer. Completely shifts the focus of the first game being tight arcade-y levels with surgical enemy placement to throwing you headfirst into the grinder, whole fields of enemies that are as eager to shred you as you are to them. I wish I could rank this game even higher, because I really do love it and what it stands for, but the low parts in this feel torturous. Nothing in 1 comes close to the pain of trudging through Downtown or The Chasm or Bloodfalls. But, also, nothing in 1 comes close to slaughtering through The Spirit World or Nirvana or The Courtyard or Dead Simple or

You get the point.