So I recently decided to give this game another try. At first I was disgusted with the game, and honestly it is really dumbed down from the first game in the (soon to be) trilogy, Deus Ex. But the fact is is that it still follows in the same vein as the first one and while the level design isn't as inspired (my biggest complaint is that the various options such as stealth, brute force attack, hacking keypads and covert entry into a building) are much more obvious in this game, all in all, the level design seems to have lost some of the art from the first one. Either way, if you decided not to try this one after Deus Ex I say go ahead. From what I see so far, it still has the same great Deus Ex storywriting.