I played this back on release nov 2004 , i play it over Haloween with the wesp patch. Which has improved the game a great deal. If you have never played this game , i envy you ! Play it , explore the maps , try and play some of the side-quests : talk to All the npc`s , as a Malkavian i once had a conversation with a roadsign ! because games like this are so very rare to find ...
If you really love to RPG on your pc , alas there are only so many sci - fi rpg... And Invisible War is pretty decent , without the high`s of its older brother perhaps. But its a challenge there are many missions and i have played it through several times and had fun with it. So for sure play the original first and maybe ANACHRONOX and the System shock games . But when you need a fresh game , give this a try , i feel it was somewhat underated.