Guns are improved and more customizable (just take a look at the assault rifle), Snipers have less superhman reflexes, enemies are much more unpredictable, especially during stealth segments.
A lot of this was already put in the last version, but v9 simply fleshes everything out even better. The robots learned a lot of new tricks (don't get one close to death if you're standing next to them!) and new enemy types added to the late game really ramp up the difficulty where the original became laughably easy. Enemies are constantly on the move, know when to take cover and wait for an ambush, can even throw down suppressive fire and know much better when to flush you out with a grenade or enter a melee fight if the player is getting too close. Starting with v8 and realized to its fullest extent in the new v9, the combat has been polished to a level where Deus Ex can confidently hold its own as a competent shooter thanks to vast improvements w.r.t. There were a lot of different systems in place to empower the player to try a large variety of playstyles but at the end of the day, the rather dumb AI, the terribly imbalanced weaponry and the problems associated with that (skill and augment choice, inventory concerns) never really encouraged anyone to move out of their comfort zone (AI abuse, upgrading the rifle skill). The original Deus Ex was never a stellar example of an ego shooter who could compete with the classics of the genre at the time. What do I mean by that? Take combat, for instance. v9 of GMDX is the logical conclusion to v8's approach towards a major redesign of the combat & AI, stealth, and RPG systems. If you followed the development of GMDX for the last few years, you know the drill: New version, new enhancements, GFX updates, and bugfixes - same old, same old? Of course not.
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