The game needs more open environments for sure and Dictator is the one person I have seen present a case of how the tech is holding back a better gameplay experience in that regard but the gunplay that is there is excellent there just needs to be way more of it.
I really feel like they had to cut a lot of things in order to get the game out and had to redo a substantial amount of the encounter design because of it. Much of the destruction and physics simulation talked about early on is missing and there's no way they intended all of the lycan encounters to be copy past scenarios.