Deus Ex 3 "puts almost everything else in the genre to shame"

[Great Rumbler]

I'd actually say it's better than the first game. It's got the obvious improvements brought about by 11 years of technology advancement [better graphics, physics, ect.] along with better voice-acting and writing [arguable on the latter, not on the former], a deeper skill tree, and a really cool hacking minigame. And it keeps the things that made the first so good: multiple ways to tackle objectives and missions, lots of sidequests to do for fun and profit, large hub areas to explore.

It's a true "sequel".