At least a couple times through; First game I did normal and part of hard, then NGB on hard and about half of very hard. You're correct in that the first level was the only level in the game that had that problem while standing still and just walking around, but I was referring to combat. It wasn't game breaking thanks to the aforementioned auto-aiming but it was still pretty god-awful.
In any case, I still need to finish ZOE2 one day. I got sidetracked for some reason even though I was really enjoying it (spaceship assault ftw) and just never got back to it. I'm currently on a PS2 spree so maybe I'll try to slip this in before Crackdown hits.

