They didn't lack themselves, but they weren't as interesting to me as what HR had, and HR just had more. When I said lack of places, I don't just mean your hub-like areas, but the story missions you go on there were a bunch of interesting, more linear areas in HR, while you were mainly in Prague for MD with a few different places like Dubai, the facility later in the game, and the Utulek Station. Mankind Divided is a great game, and it has some nice new additions which make it play better, but the story not really going anywhere fast, and the lack of variety in places you go make it an overall worse game than HR to me. I like my stealth games to give me options to tactically retreat (few do) which is one of the reasons why I love MGS so much as those games actually let you do that and made it fun. (playing on "Give me Deus Ex" at least, never played on anything else) Prague on the other hand was dense with all kinds of weird shit.Īlso you could only really play HR stealthfully, you could try and shoot your way through when things go south (or maybe that's just how you roll to begin with) but the controls and aiming and just the way the weapons handled were clunky at best. I replayed HR shortly before playing MD and the hub areas in that game felt fairly barren, they were cool conceptually but if you take the time to stop and look around Detroit and Hengsha werent all that interesting. Human Revolution felt like a more complete game, with a good incentive to keep going (REVENGE) but Mankind Divided just played better and had more momentum, HR kind of dragged in spots. If you're still on the fence about Mankind Divided, I'd wait until Dishonored 2 comes out to see what the reception to it is like. It will almost definitely have more levels and locations. But another game of this style is coming out pretty soon by the name of Dishonored 2 and that game will probably be as good or better than this one. A handful of incremental gameplay improvements and added features add nothing to the experience, while the meandering story and the decision to have only one hub area and very few real, separate levels makes the experience much less interesting and memorable than its predecessor. But I've finished almost all of the sidequests and I looked into almost all of the points of interest that I could find and I feel pretty safe in saying that Mankind Divided, while a good game that I would recommend to people who want more Human Revolution, isn't anywhere near as good as its predecessor. I meant to tonight - I'm right on the edge of finishing it - but stuff happened and I wound up doing other things. I still haven't actually finished Mankind Divided.