Eric P, what did you like about JC2?
I haven't tried JC2 beyond running benchmarks but the eye candy is amazing.
i liked the diversity of environment the most. i could do missions in city scapes, jungles, icy mountains, deserts and oceans and it was all open to me from the start.
quick travel (the bane of these games) is not a problem. I'm at point A, I want to get to point B but I'm impatient and want to just do stuff at point B immediately, i can call in an chopper evac and be magically teleported to that location (assuming i'd "discovered" it at some point).
If i don't want to do the varied and scripted missions, i can cause havoc on my own on my terms
if i didn't want to cause havoc i could do missions which were varied to the point of my doing every single side mission available in the game, something i never, ever do.
after playing JC2, RFG just seemed so slow and monochromatic by comparison