Well I'm at chapter 4 and I'm having a blast. The gameplay is just cool as hell. It's pretty much like MP1/2 but a bit more realistic. In the sense that Max just looks like he has more weight when he throws his weight around. When you shootdodge you have to make sure not to bump into walls/objects or you'll stumble.
Another thing which was a bit weird at first is the fact that your targeting cursor movement speed gets reduced a lot while in shootdodge. It was pretty annoying at first, but now I just find it a nice balance, and think it quite fits the gameplay. I mean it wasn't really realistic for Max to be able to turn from a face-down position to a face-up position in a split-second. Now it takes a bit more time to turn and target.
And I find the mixture of using cover and bullettime/shootdodge quite a nice gameplay mechanics. Initially I thought I'd only use shootdodge, but quite a nice respite to reload your guns, and jump back into the fray.
I also did 2 rounds of multiplayer which I quite enjoyed. At first they felt very frantic in that I died left and right, but I soon got the gist of it and started killing people myself. But it's very satisfying when you do a shootdodge and gun someone down before they gun you down. They actually implemented bullet-time in a nice way. And it's not overused at all. About 50% of my jumps were normal jumps, and 50% were bullet-time jumps. But then again I'm still at lvl 3 of 50 of character levels.
