I agree with everything but one. You don't have to play the whole campaign. Just select the Soviet missions (the ones in yellow). About 30 minutes of gameplay, and that's iy. Rip-off.
If you're a CoD fan and you pass on this on principle, you're doing yourselves an injustice. It's a very good game, and yes very brutal...maybe too much so. The CTD's and MP problems? Haven't seen them, so don't generalize. Overall, a good review of a top shelf game.
A quite scattered and disjointed review, if you can call it that. Didn't really inform at all, and one has to wonder how much of the game the reviewer actually played. I'm not convinced this is a top-drawer title, and won't be getting it based on what I've seen of it. But not based on this review, which is more of a rant anyway.