This game manages to destroy everything the first one build. The choices we made in the first one were left out as moral questions, there was no right or wrong. However this game shows our decisions were wrong. Everything that made it special as a story is gone. And I'm not even upset about the deaths, it's just that you haven't improved in any area other than graphics, and destroyed the only thing that redeemed your first game, the story.
As Joel said... "There was a sequel, wasn't as good."