Deus Ex 2: Invisible War

don't buy as it doesn't Work on win 7

This was a terrible sequel. If you like looking at loading screens every 10 steps. sure. great powerpoint presentation. This really didnt need to be on GOG. Someone should make BOG so it can go there.

This is possibly the worst game of all time, especially considering which game this was a sequel to. Considering the plot of the prequel, carrying on with the timeline made no sense, so a merge of all substantially different endings was needed. It turned the plot into a mess, which either isn't explained well enough (there's pretty much no explanation what MJ-12 is) if the player isn't familiar with Deus Ex, or all plot twists come from a mile away. The intro doesn't intrigue at all, unlike the prequel, and the game ends up being boring through its entirety. There are plenty of plot holes as well — Alex Denton not knowing their last name makes absolutely no sense, as well as the Aquinas hub magically teleporting to Alex Jacobson's desk. I'm quite disappointed that Omar didn't play a bigger role in the plot as well, as they were possibly the most interesting faction in the game, and their ending feels tacked on as an afterthought. Graphics somehow manage to look worse than the prequel as well. Clunky character models and animations ruin how the game looks, and real time shadows don't look or work too well. Performance was horrible as well, at least under wine-staging. The game was so rushed that the engine restarts every time the game loads (which happens way too often) to deal with supposed memory leaks, and causes ridiculously long load times. Combat is unbearable. It feels like it depends pretty much entirely on luck, as even abusing the regeneration aug isn't enough to stay alive at times. Universal ammo depletes so quickly that I used it as a last resort, especially because of how weak firearms are compared to melee attacks with augs. Mouse look on PC sets a new low, as it seems to get stuck at times and forces to look in the opposite direction at some times, which makes combat even harder than it should be. Pretty much every other resource than ammo is plentiful to the point where collecting it becomes boring. I ended up with maxed out augs before I was half way through the game. Also, for some reason certain multitools (which function as lock picks in this game because it had to be dumbed down this much). Somehow the decision to design this game for both the Xbox and PC (and by that I mean forcing it into constraints of Xbox) caused it to be dumbed down even more than the PS2 port (which had half amount of RAM Xbox had) and completely ruined the interface (which was better in the console port of the prequel). Levels feel even smaller than they were in the PS2 port of Deus Ex. The way aug canisters work completely broke character progression (where the prequel held the player back by not handing canisters for all slots to make sure the player won't end up maxing out before the game even takes off). This game should've been buried underground rather than E.T. Developers would've been better off releasing a DVD with all endings, as this would work under even more platforms without the need to dumb the product down, and video compression would've been better. I had to force myself through the game, even though I wanted to experience how bad it is.

Literally the worst.

This game is really bad and that's without comparing it to the original Deus Ex. I mean it's so simplified and technically weak not just by today's standards but already in 2003. This is worse than System Shock 2 and that one came out in 1999 which is 4 years earlier. Metal Gear Solid 2 from 2001 was way better than this if we are to compare console games and not PC. I just don't see a reason why anyone would spend money on this. I got it in some promo for a penny i think and i regret even the hour of time I spent playing this.