The fact that the person playing was god awful and the difficulty was purposely put on Brain Dead mighta had something to do with it.

I just can't watch this. The  quality is terrible which makes the console graphics look even worse and the guy who's playing is absolutely terrible at the game. I really dislike the fact that the game gives you hints like "hold blabla to powerkick". Using the physics engine in an innovative way should be the player's decision, not scripted beforehand like this. 
 
Also, I preferred the way aliens were in C1. Their animation was much better and just reskinning the KPAs into aliens just because a lot of people liked fighting the human AI is a kind of cheap trick. It also seems that your options are more limited in this game than they were in the first game. In the first game, you could sneak around a base and find tons of entry points, while here it seems like there's only one way in.
 
Hopefully it's just the god-awful quality that's making me react like this and the PC version hopefully lives up to the first game, but from this footage, it doesn't seem like that would be the case. 
 
I've stayed off watching SP videos of this game since it was announced because I didn't want to break it for myself too much, but does this story have ANYTHING to do with Nomad, Prophet & Psycho? Crysis kind of left us hanging after 

Prophet is  in it.