This game lacks the fun factor present in the original game -- the cover system chokes the feeling of freedom the player is supposed to get in immersive sim games, the dialogues boil down to cookie-cut minigames, where you get two ways to do them successfully (Including the social augmentation) and many more ways to fuck up and get a worse outcome.

The game feels like it drags on, despite having taken me considerably less time than the original game. This is probably due to how the game is structured to accommodate for multiple rigid playstyles, and my gameplay, which generally boils down to going through an area without taking anyone down or being seen, and then immediately running through the next area with invisibility on just to troll the game, often ends up feeling like a wasted opportunity, because the game seems to shove into your face how you could do things "better."


Overall, I am not impressed, and I much prefer the original Deus Ex. Perhaps I'm just as grumpy old man who doesn't want to get with the times.

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