My God was this an amazing movie. It started off with master of puppets as a homage to the original movie (which played for whom the bell tolls). Even though it wasnt intentional, it made alot of sense since our characters had become masters of the game as apposed to when they simply had no choice but to fight.
Next off, the addition of the character "Madison" was amazing. She was first at first but had alot of character development. Alot of people saw this movie as bad mainly because it did really feel like a 2000s movie instead of a 2010s one. This was an AMAZING decision and made the first and the squel connect very well. Alot of cool refrences (babylon is Woodstock, Tallahassee smashes a guitar like Jimmy hendrix, the whole elvis thing, etc).
I really reccomend this movie. Pay NO attention to critics.