The game started getting really, really boring until the monsters showed up. You all know how fucking boring I find real-world stuff. It was like... oh look, another camouflaged guy standing in the bushes waiting for me to kill him. Yay. Then the monsters showed up and I got just enough variety to start having a lot of fun. From there on out it was just awesome. I didn't dislike fighting the soldiers, it's just that I could never have spent an entire game doing just that.
But I'm with MyD. I don't care much about any FC games not developed by Crytek themselves. Haven't followed any of these things at all since the first game.