You love the game and that's great, but let's be real you probably were going to like it a lot no matter what happened right? We all go into sequels of games we enjoyed being a bit more forgiving than people who were lukewarm on the previous game or maybe never played them before. That's not a knock on you, we all are guilty of that at some point myself included.
I'm not saying there isn't fun to be had with SoD2 but honestly I haven't found much depth at all so far. The lack of any story to speak of is really hurting my experience with this game, the first one didn't have much of one but at least it had something, this one is just constantly doing the same few things over and over again. While that can be said for most games they at least tend to have a story or defined objective that gives you a reason to do these things, so far all I've gotten with this game is random people I never meet talking about stuff on the radio or people who call out for help and then get pissed off if you don't show up in time.
I went back and played it again last night after not touching it for about a week, I wanted to see if that huge 20GB patch did much and while the game seems to look a little cleaner and sharper when it's not moving I still see way too much blur and the framerate was clearly going below 30fps while just driving around in a field or sprinting. I'm glad they say they've fixed that disappearing HUD bug though but I have to say the game as released and the shape it was in at the time of reviews was getting fair treatment.