is it just me or is the game a bit of a let down
Not really a let down but at the same time i wouldn't call it a massive step above bc2. More of another iteration if anything, they've just brought what supposodly defines a BF game back, prone, and 64 players being the 2 obvious choices.
Thre was a comment posted ages back that supposodly came from an ex dice dev, he stated (something along the lines of) that when he left BF3 was in the prototype stages, i think that sorta gave the impression that dice were trying out some really game defining features that hadn't been seen before and got the hype bandwagon rolling along.