I never had the chance to experience the original, so this is my first time coming to this title and I have to say that there's a lot that's impressive about the cohesive world design and maps that truly came to later define Immersive Sims. I think I agree with the take that this is more of a dungeon crawl than an Immersive Sim. It's also a solid story with memorable beats. Cyberspace and a couple of the levels still kinda suck in that way some 90s games did of being too obtuse and poorly paced and I'd have liked to see that stuff simply streamlined out but maybe that would have pissed off the fans.

Still, much better than I expected it to be and I'd recommend just setting cyberspace to 1 so you can get through that as quickly as possible.