Crysis isn't crap, it's meta score is only 4 points below HL2's.
Your right, Crysis isn't crap, I don't know why everyone goes to such extremes every time they make a statement, but the multiplayer, although better then Farcry 2, still plays like its in the Beta stage. Also clearly many people think the game isn't optimized well for its resouce use compared to how it looks.
Anyways your criticisms of Half lifes 2 graphics seem so unjustified to me because its a 5 year old game. What did you want Valve to do? Go back and update the graphics to a 5 year old game to make it look better by todays standards? You might as well go on the Quake 3 Live forums and tell everyone Quake 3 sucks because the graphics are so horrible. Why aren't you insulting Half life 1s graphics? those are way worse? The Gold SRC engine looks terrible by todays standards! I hope you get the point I'm trying to make...oh yeah and Wolfenstein 3d graphics are a joke! have you seen that? Ludicrous!
PS: The gamerankings metascore difference is 5 points between the games