It could have been great, but the bugg infested state that this game are at the moment makes it not worth buying.
EA seems to be unable to patch it, since every one that comes just makes it worse. Im sure that on other platforms the game is superb and you can get the gameplay feel on the PC, just don´t do anything that makes a cutscene.
Gameplay wise they dumb it down at least from the first one and made it a lot more console friendly, for me that makes it a bit to easy and you don´t get that large scale that you had in the first one. Set that aside and you grind through the buggs, a great story emerges and hopefully EA will get this patches and working in a year or two.....