yeah your right, the first one was alot better in most ways.
But there where some improvements to, for instance the Televisions ingame had more pictures and more channels
( Damn I love 'Lords & Ladies' hehehe )
And then there where parts where the story was rewinded and you played Mona instead of Max.
And offcourse the effects and graphix where improved, but this was to be expected. (Btw shame that 3DRealms never puts their logo on games they helped creat [almost half the work for Max 1, and prob Max 2 aswell])
Still haven't been arsed to get to the ending (which tells how much less intresting the story is compared to the first one) but when I do I can finaly say if this one was good or bad, a game stands or falls with its ending