| Deus Ex: Invisible War | 
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| From: Eidos Interactive
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
Buy Used: $3.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  100 reviews
Sales Rank: 3504
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Me, Windows Xp, Windows 95, Windows 98
ESRB: Mature
Media: CD-ROM
Batteries Included: No
Age: 17 - 20 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.5
MPN: 5710
Model: SDEU2PUS00
UPC: 788687100144
EAN: 0788687100144
ASIN: B00009WDLD
Release Date: December 2, 2003
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| Customer Reviews:
 Absolute, unmitigated rubbish. November 4, 2004
5 out of 15 found this review helpful
It's no prettier than Dark Forces, and the levels aren't as complicated. Play the original Quake instead. It has more realistic weapons and far scarier opponents. In fact, to find less intelligent enemies, you have to return to games played in 16kB of RAM with no hard disk. Yes, it really is that bad. It would be a tragic waste of the time taken to install it and set up your keys. Do not waste your money buying this game.
Remember Jar-jar Binks? This is worse.
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 Close but no cigar October 14, 2004
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Basically I was dissapointed by this game, after being a huge fan of the original there was a great deal of anticipation, sadly however the game did not live up to my expectations. I blame this on its joint Xbox/PC origins and the fact the game had been over simplified. This dumbing down was my main cause of irritation. However I suggest for all those who bought Deus Ex 2 they should go to www.dx2rebirth.off2picproduction.com to get the high quality skins.
To be fair to the developers its hard to perfect perfection, and the original Deus Ex will always remain a genre defining masterpiece. In short only buy this game if you have finished Deus Ex and still want more from the same universe.
 God Of Garbage September 12, 2004
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
The first Deus Ex game is by far one of the best FPS games I have ever played. It successfully combined the FPS genre with an RPG, and it had so much replay value. The storyline was excellent, had cool characters, cool weapons, and so much more. So of course when I heard that Deus Ex: Invisible War was being made, I was in shock. I couldn't wait to play it. But unfortunately, this is the worst follow up to any game I have ever played.
The game is so clearly rushed, with its unispired level design, minimal detail on the backgrounds, poor animation and the buggy gameplay. Not only are the areas really small and poorly designed, but in between each area are relentless load screens. The enemy AI is awful, I found the enemies in the first Deus Ex much harder on easy, and meanwhile I was playing DX2 on normal.
DX2 no longer has skill points, which were used to increase your character in different skill areas. The biomods are cheesy and not very fun. Instead of having different ammo for different weapons, now DX2 has only 1 ammo which is used in each of the guns. There are no areas where you can swim in DX2. I remember in the first Doom game there was at least water in a few levels. The weapons are clunky and do not feel that much different from one another. You could seriously beat this game using only a pistol. If there's a door thats locked, you don't have any multitools, or you don't have the keycode, just simply sneak around the door by going the through the vent that seems to be ever conveniently placed right next to every locked door in every area.
Playing DX2 seemed more like playing a beta version than an actual game. I highly recommend the first DX, i think any RPG or FPS fan needs to play the original DX, but don't waste your time or money on Invisible War. This is almost a big a let down as Kill Bill Volume 2.
The name "Deus Ex" should not be part of its title September 7, 2004
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
When viewed apart from the would-be Deus Ex franchise, this is an OK game. Not one I'm really glad I bought, but not overly horrible to play either. It feels like a console game that's been ported to PC.
But, since they did tout this as a sequel to the first DX, I think all and any comparative criticisms are valid. Basically, this game lacks so much of the depth, intelligence, and COMPLEXITY of the first game, I can't bring myself to keep playing it. It's like they didn't have any clue why the first one was so endearing to most of its fan base.
I'll be sticking to the occasional nostalgic return to playing the first title once in a while. Playing this one just makes me sad.
Unuser Friendly. August 16, 2004
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
As a story-teller I was eager to play this game for the wide possinilities of scenarios. As a game I was very disappointed. First of all, I wasn't able to move the pointer to select anyoptions. Only in game play was I able to move my character. Secondly, instead of just collecting ammo, I was forced to pick up the same weapon multiple times which used up the space of my tool belt. If one gun ran out of ammo then every gun was out of ammo. That was just a waste of space. I also felt limited by the small selection of tools. Not even the cheat codes would entirely work. For example, the unlimited ammo only gave me a few extra clips. The guns themselves were not even very good. The sniper rifle didn't "snipe." The clips were very small in the ammo capacity and the shots were very weak. I should have bought Halo when I had the chance.
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