Less Interactivity than before?

[Lewk]

I'm hoping the atmosphere is enough so that a lack of physics is easily ignored.

The lack of physical interaction with large objects increases the atmosphere. Throwing around crates and barrels made TDD look stupid as hell (at least looking back on it). I love TDD and I enjoyed playing around with what the engine could do, but the game would not be necessary to do that. All you need is to spawn a few objects in a test level and throw them around. It decreases the atmosphere and the seriousness of the game so I'm glad the interaction with the bigger objects was removed.

What I wish they would do with the chairs and similarly sized objects is make them unliftable, so that you could move them around on the floor but not throw them around, because that definitely makes the game look silly. The only thing you should be able to lift off the ground, and move around with, is small objects.