Deus Ex 2: Invisible War

Deus Ex: Invisible War, like many have already said here is pretty good game in its own right, it's just not good as a sequel to Deus Ex. It is not that it is a game that is horrible to play, in fact it is quite enjoyable and you think to yourself "why is everyone down on this game?" It does not, however, do many things extremely well or should I say Deus Ex expectation well. Everything from graphics, to interface to level design, to story are all adequate, just not outstanding. Outstanding though is what we all came to expect from it because DE:IW is the sequel to such a tremendous game. Just a little more time in the devs hands, or the destruction of consoles, could have been enough to make this title really, really good. Instead what we are left with is the little brother of a pretty impressive family, whose other siblings are doing great things and have left their marks. This one just needed a little more time to grow into those rather impressive shoes.

Deus Ex 1, the only deus ex... 2 and 3 mangled and twisted deceptions.

This was a tremendous disappointment after the excellent first game. Deus Ex: Invisible War is a scaled-down, "console-ized" offering where the developers hoped to increase sales to console owners instead of creating a masterpiece sequel. They tried to capitalize of the then-ongoing Iraq War with the subtitle of "The Future War on Terror", which only made it seem that much worse. Hopefully, this will all turn out to be a simulation in the mind of some artificial intelligence and can be safely removed from the canon. Hopefully the original Deus Ex will provide a true sequel, as there is still plenty of time to set it after the original and before this awful offering. There is still a decent game here, dispute the direction the story takes, and the game is worth the current price of $0.97. The four possible endings could not manage a decent one, as not one is satisfactory to be considered the "good" ending. It's little wonder why the developers chose to create a prequel for their next project, which turned out to be one of the best games ever.

Don't know exactly why fanboys of the first game dislike IW. Because it made a mockery of the ridiculous dial-an-ending, making all 3 canon? Because ammunition is now universal (sounds pretty cyberpunk to me)? Because JC Denton is now "evil"?

I got this game for Xbox thinking it would really good, being a sequel to what I think is the best game ever made. Unfortunately, I was completely disappointed. Even if you remove Deus Ex from the title, the game still is horrendously bad, with incredibly linear and small environments with a story so laughably mediocre it makes Michael Bay look like Francis Ford Coppola. This game completely scarred my childhood, to the point where I can't even look at the game any more or even acknowledge its existence when brought up in conversation. Invisible War, avoid.