Honestly, this game is really fun in terms of gameplay - essentially just where it's a stripped down action game with RPG elements in it, and there's so much fun to have in terms of the skills you acquire in this and the stealth and the gunplay. It's something that I find incredibly fun just to mess around with and it's very functional in terms of just being a pure action game.

One of my biggest faults just comes from the story and just how it's so lacking compared to the first one. The first one worked because of how it's such an interwoven web of conspiracy - where the issues captured in that game are accurate, but then it's also about the absurdity of paranoia - where it's not exactly fully correct or wrong, but about how it's such a meshed combination of the two - some of them are casted as almost prophetic or really intricate and studied, and others are just casted as being completely wacko and so on. It's very much a game which is confrontational of the conspiracy theory mindset.

This game mainly just handwaves a few things about FEMA camps, gangs, police brutality, giant corporations and human augmentations (which apparently the whole game decides to revolve around) - and I just felt that it was really lacking in terms of what it's trying to explore. It tries to do something about human advancement but so much of it just feels like aesthetics - like someone ripping out passages of a book or some sort of art piece without really understanding what's behind it.

There's just not really much of a follow-through with it, or really enough to justify this as though it were a Deus-Ex game. Although, this is otherwise fun if it were treated as a standalone entry - definitely an incredibly functional game, and so fun to play at points. But again, the story here is just really lacking.