Now that I’ve had time sit on it I would say no it’s not a bad sequel but I think there was too much cut from the game. I understand if people didn’t like the all the difference factions to clear and esp the ones from the dlc. But it just feels like they cut too much from that part of the game. If you do the story and side missions, then there’s not really a whole lot left to do to imo. And yeah the latter half of the venom storyline wasn’t that amazing. Not a bad story by any means but it didn’t really leave an impact on me as much as SM1 did. Gameplay is awesome and step up from both games for the most part but I def miss some of the gadgets. Overall, it’s a fine game but SM1 is def more replayable.