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not even worth stealing

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 14
Date: December 07, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The first game was great and iv played it at least 10 times. but this game sucks the gaphics are not great theres maybe 2 hours of game play and the ending is the same as the last game. I guess the only way to find out how bad it is is to buy it, but if you want my adivce dont waste your money.

Not bad, Not great either

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: February 18, 2006
Author: Amazon User

You need a hefty computer to handle the graphics. I had turn the graphics to lowest and was still laggy. This games storyline requires you to play Deus Ex in order to understand it. Basically, get Deus Ex and forget about invisible war until you beat Deus Ex.

rat in a maze, short play time, intensive machine reqs

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 9
Date: January 02, 2004
Author: Amazon User

You'll probably need to upgrade your video card to play this game. Note: a Nvidia GeForce3 MX card won't cut it. The game requires a card that will support pixel shading.

Graphics are good and the physics of the game is quite interesting. Every object can be moved, picked up or otherwise manipulated.

Until you get to the last part of the game, you'll feel like a rat in a maze. The graphic requirements are so steep that the game is structed along very narrow and limited areas. Only a few areas to explore in each scenario. If you suffer from clostrophobia (sp?) you'll hate this game. Most disappointing.

I hope they improve things before using this engine for the next version of Thief.

The games has about 20 hours of play time. Most games I play have far, far more play time than this. The alternative story lines and choices are not as interesting as they might be/could be.

If this game was cheaper, it might be worth the expense. I finished it in less than a week's play time over the holidays. I'm done with it and now need to look to purchase another game.

I do not recommend this game.

I actually played the game and liked it

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 9
Date: January 08, 2004
Author: Amazon User

For fans of System Shock 2 and similar games, this is probably one of the only games published in 2003 that you may really like. Apperently this game has gotten a lot of negative critique but that is probably a conspiracy :-) . If you are a lover of intellingent games (and is intelligent yourself) this is the game to get! To play this game I acquired an FX5900XT Nvidia Card, and along with my XP1700+ processer and 512 MB RAM, the game runs just fine. I installed the patch before playing the game, so I must admist I never got to see how the initial release played... with the patch it's a great game. Funnily enough the installer of the game removed the demo, so I never got to see how it was because I couldn't play it with my previous graphics card.

Deus Ex 2

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 19
Date: December 10, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is a warning to people who have not bought this game!It does not support any of the nVidia MX vidio cards.

Amazing Graphics.....

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 16
Date: December 03, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Apparently none of you are running this game smoothly on a 9800pro and oc'd AMD. Run this game @ 1600x1200, 2xAA and 8x Aniso and then tell me that it doesn't have good graphics. I realize not everyone is running high-end machines but that's why there's a console version. You cant expect better graphics with the same card, it's a hardware limitation, not of the rendering engine.

I hear and a gree with your complaints about the crappy AI, no skills, unified ammo, and worst of all, that interface. It's HORRIBLE, absolutely horrible. I can't beleive it, they so blatantly cater to the console gamers, but WE made this game big.

It works out, i guess, pc gamers get crappy ports of Grand Theft Auto, because that belongs to console. Xbox should have a modded port of OUR game, fair enough. ok im done ranting. I'd say buy it if you see the promise that i see in the demo.

Invisible War - Set-up for failure?

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: January 28, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I am what some would call a casual gamer(I buy and play 3-4 games/yr). The original was a great game and I've replayed it several times. This game is also a good one even if it cut back on some of the aspects that made the original a "game of the year". If several have expressed their dissapointment, I believe they(and the programmers of "The Invisible War") have set themselves up for it. It is very hard to come out and top a game like Deus Ex and I believe they tried but made some understandable errors along the way. One is the issue with the generic ammo Alex D. picks up along the way. I think the programmers were thinking that since this game scenario is further along the timeline, the technology must have gotten better. Coming up with ammunition that can be configured for any weapon seemed like a logical step. But, as many have commented, this took away some of the stress and planning your character had to do to conserve it for different weapons. 2nd was the biomods Alex D. had to acquire. They not only made it too easy to upgrade to your maximum level, you could replace them anytime during the game if you decided you wanted a different biomod. This was a mistake for the same reasons as above. The size of the environments was dissapointing but I'm not going to rehash that as most others have commented on it. My last pet peeve: The dialog in this game was lousy compared to the original. In the original Alex's interaction with the other characters was very engaging, drawing you deeper into the role. And his conversation with the Echelon IV AI was very philsophical and actually made a lot of sense. In this game most of the characters were spouting crap most of the time. Alex D.'s conversation with Alex Denton made no sense whatsoever.
Now, as to the good of the game. It was still very interesting and fun to play. If this had been the original game, it might not have gotten "game of the year" but it would have gotten good reviews. Some of the weapons were great(I particularly liked the alt fire of the rocket launcher that allowed you to remote guide the missle). A couple of the biomods were also very good. The ability to dominate any robot was a lot of fun. In the original, you had several ending scenarios to choose from, however, it seemed clear to me which one they were steering you toward. In this game, it was unclear which ending seemed best until you had tried them all. Even then it wasn't clear which one would be the best for humanity at large. Overall, I enjoyed the game. While it missed the mark of the original, it was still a lot of fun to play.

God Of Garbage

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: September 12, 2004
Author: Amazon User

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.

DON'T BUY THIS OR ANY EIDOS MERCHANDISE!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 10
Date: December 31, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I would highly reccommend going to a store and looking at the system requirements before you buy this game from Amazon. They dont show them to you on the website, and Eidos has decided to randomly not support some of the best graphics cards on the market, including the NVIDIA GeForce4 MX card, which i have on my computer. Despite this, they have decided to allow other NVIDIA cards to work with the game, although they are worse than the card that they don't allow. I'm going to start a holdout on Eidos merchandise because of their idiocy with system requirements and bugs in the games, and i would reccommend you do too. This game cost me 50 bucks, and if i were you be sure you check every square inch of the game before you buy it.

Why change a winning formula?

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: December 06, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Not a bad game, but would have been 10 times better if it was more faithful to the original. A lot of the fun aspects have gone, including the look and feel, to be replaced with a generic shooter with "fuzzy" graphics. Long time fans will definately ask themselves why the heck all the fun aspects were removed and replaced with no brainer alternatives (eg generic ammo, generic biomods etc) -- a LOT of the strategy has been removed :(

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