In terms of gameplay, it's pretty good. Improves on some stuff from HR, has a bunch of new augments for you to play around with, a few new mechanics. There's now a crafting system, which... feels kind of like it's just there because apparently all games now need to have crafting. It can somewhat trivialize some stuff since you can get a ton of parts by disassembling everything you loot and then craft actually useful items, but I actually rather like being able to trivialize the hacking minigame by spamming multitools at least, since I hate it.

In terms of level design, it ranges from alright to amazing. There's a few more linear sequences that the main story takes you to which are merely alright, but the Prague hub is just :chefs-kiss: . There's so much stuff to do and find, so many apartments to break into, an awesome bank heist you can pull off, it's great.

The story's where the problems arise. It was clearly meant to be chapter 2 in a Jensen trilogy, and the plot just... ends at one point, in a manner so confusing and anti-climactic it makes you think your game must have bugged out and skipped a cutscene or something. And since the game didn't sell too well, there wasn't a next one (although now that Square Enix have sold off the rights maybe there will be), so there's just no resolution to the story. The plot also starts in a weird spot, with Adam having gone through a ton of stuff not actually covered in the game, but in... fucking tie-in novels of all things. The story during the actual game is mostly fine, but the whole "being augmented is like being an oppressed racial minority actually" theme just... really doesn't work, I don't know what they were thinking with that one.

So if you're more of a narrative-driven person, it might be disappointing, but if you're more about exploring and sneaking, you'll likely have a great time.