I haven't paid any attention to Shiny since those horrible Matrix games. I want Sacrifice 2, damn it!
I picked up Path of Neo last Sat. I'm already at the end, pretty much....
...battling The Super-Huge Mr. Smith.
But, yeah -- Path of Neo is a heck of a lot better than ETM was.
PoN sticks to what the game should stick to -- lots of fighting, lots of shooting, lots of breaking stuff, lots of explosions. And, you can upgrade Neo and his skills throughout the entire course of the game, which keeps the action fresh. Yes, that stuff is PoN at its best....
...But, the biggest problems w/ PoN are mixed framerates when the game doesn't even look that good -- framerates go from great to horrible depending what's happening on-screen -- and the lack of necessary storytelling/summarization of some events for those who ain't actually seen all three of the movies.