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The whole Aug thing, the tech is advanced enough that brain in a jar tech is possible even at this stage, you never meet an outright inhuman freak type of NPC who's completely robotic or an Aug fetishist who did that to himself and became a fucking war machine with almost no human parts.
If shit like that whole setting hits real life, there's definitely going to be someone like that and given the extensive functionality of the Augs he'd likely be in a criminal group to fund his addiction because of the meds. Instead of that you just get a giant russian guy who's one-note in the second game and only did the extensive augmentation out of revenge or something.
Like you never meet someone who ASKED for this. The whole big deal in the first game is that your character got his augs because of an accident, but never explores anything that parallels him. I didn't expect the games to replicate the whole conspiracy air the original had, but you'd think that with the whole emphasis on the physical problems of cyborg shit you'd have some sort of ultimate end result in the form of a character, and because of that it feels wasted.
The whole "aug apartheid" thing in the second game also provided one of THE WORST sections of the game, which is the third visit back to the hub city, where everything's all martial law with police going murderboner on everyone including you. Not only was it the least designed section of the game, especially with the linear level design being excellent up until that point, but it also really screwed the whole feeling of the game, the feeling of opression it built up and the whole covert spy feeling the game had in it's city missions where you'd sneak into buildings to get information or kill/knock out mafioso before anything could start was the highlight of the first half of the game, but it was fucked up when the whole city became a badly designed warzone for very little reason.
On top of that the games aren't very good at emphasizing threats or characters, so everything just has this impersonal dull "go here do this leave" tone that was only really brightened up by the stealth gameplay.
Also the lethal weapons on enemies without armor take two fucking shots to kill if you go for a headshot, and silencers reduce damage for no reason and defeat the point of using a silencer because your weapon becomes something that can't even dent wet paper with one on.
Lots of fucked potential, but it was made by Ubisoft.
I got both games for free because a friend handed them off to me.