One of the best games from the seventh generation of consoles, nowhere near as good as the first game. Human Revolution does a lot of things well, a lot of things much better than games that came out at around its time, and I argue its still much better than most first person shooters that came after it, but a lot of its shortcomings come from it being a AAA console game. Human Revolution, while telling a compelling story that does fall in line within the first game, feels very detached from it with the game's art direction and setting. It's sometimes feels like it's more caught up with its transhumanism vs humanism themes than it should be when it could be telling something much more thought provoking at times. The level design is much more binary than the first game. While the first game's levels never gave a clear answer of what would be the best way to approach a problem, Human Revolution has multiple instances where you choose to go through a hallway where you would get caught and have to go loud, or a vent where you sneak past everyone. The game also doesn't feel as reactive to my decisions than the first game aside from the first mission after Adam gets his augmentations.
With that aside, the game is still good. It retains much of makes the first game good and repackaging to a new audience of gamers and appealing to their sensibilities for the time.