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BUGGY! AHHH! 5 FPS!!!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: December 29, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I had a fx 5200 card, and a creative 5.1 soundcard, and this game ran at 5 fps. Now i have a nvidia fx 5900 (just about the best game on the market), and an audigy 2 zs, (just about the best soundcard you can buy), and the game STILL runs at 5 fps. I emailed support, and they gave me no solutions, saying they would forward the problem onto the ion team, meaning i'ed never hear from them again. if they had even run this game ONCE after creating it, they would have found the problems, but unlike the first Deus ex game, this one is just for the money. I bet if this game acutally did run, it would be pretty cool, BUT IT DOESN'T!!! Oh, another thing! because my system requirements well excede the recomended requirements of the game, i figured i should get my money back from eidos interactive, right? WRONG! they said to return it to where i got it, (oh, i'll bet they'ed like that! an opened game, with my word that it doesn't work), or give it to them for store credit! well, i can tell you that i will NEVER be buying from them again, so WHAT A WASTE OF MONEY!!! UGH!!!!!!! DO NOT BUY THIS!!!!!

Too Short, Buggy and disappointing

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: January 11, 2004
Author: Amazon User

An overall disappointment. The game for one, was too short. Without all the side missions, this game would have been a skeleton. The Story was in no way suspensful and did a poor job of keeping my attention. Inventory, now theres a doosie. Whoever dreamt that up needs to find another vocation, I felt like i was pushing 'v' every other minute to change something out or to get rid of something. If i were to compare the original with the sequel, i would say it was a step back. The first had everything and the second had nothing. On top of that, the amount of bugs this game has is ridiculous. You can tell they pushed this out quick as possible for an X-mas release. From beginning to finish the game crashed at least 5 times, which isn't to bad from what i'm hearing from others. i probably had the same amount of freeze ups. I'm willing to bet that we will be seeing many patches to help this game out as much as possible, because i for one know it needs it. And like others have said, don't let the system specs that are shown everywhere fool you. What your most likely looking at is minimum requirements. And just to throw it out there, i got a 2.8gh whith 1024 ram and a 9800 Radeon and i must say the graphics were no big deal.

Beware of compatibility problems

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: June 14, 2004
Author: Amazon User

If you think you've got a nice, relatively new computer, therefore you should be able to play Deus Ex. Be careful and read the video card support list very carefully. I have a Dell Dimension 2.4 gHz machine with a Geforce 4MX video card. Deus Ex will not play on this video card. Your card must have Pixel shader 1.1 capability to run. I bought the game and it will not work on my machine. I fell into this trap because I didn't know what the exact video card in my machine was. I assumed that, because it was relatively new and not bottom of the line, it would run pretty much any game out there. Live and learn. Don't make the same mistake as I did.

I'm rather discusted with the deus ex creators. I've been eagerly waiting for this game and now I can't play it. They didn't even give me the option of defeating pixel shading. So what if it wouldn't look as nice, at least I would be able to play it.

Oh well, The reviews I have read say it was a real disappointment anyway. I'm just glad I didn't run out and buy it for $50 when it was first released. I only got stuck for $20.

I guess this game will sit on my shelf until I upgrade my system in a few years. Hopefully it will be compatable with the system I buy then.

pay me to play it

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 22
Date: December 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I played through about the first hour of this game. It looked better than Deus Ex, that's about all I can say positively of it. If it didn't claim to be a sequel to one of the best games ever, it would actaully stand a chance as a decent game. But honestly, if you're going to make a sequel to a game like Deus Ex, don't stray this far. $10 is to high a price for this, in fact 1 cent would be a waste of money. You would honestly have to pay me to play this game again, and I'd be likely to slit my wrists from the mental anguish it would cause me.

Great, but. . .

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 8
Date: January 02, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Deus Ex 2 of the best games I've played. The graphics are awesome. The physics are better than any other game I have ever played. Sound, CHECK! Story, very deep. Action packed. Multiple story paths are very awesome. You can really do many different styles of play from stealthy to KILL ALL!

But. . .

This game could have been more than what it is. I would say that almost all of the levels were way too small! DX1 had huge levels. The graphics are sweet, but c'mon, all the levels are in darkness. I'm sick of games doing this "darkness" thing, I spent practically the whole game in nightvision mode. The time you'll get out of this is alright, but I only got about 15 hours, DX1 took me over a day of game time to finish. I'm not a huge fan of cinema scenes, but DX2 doesn't even have one! Not even at the end. I beat the game, it did a short little voice-over, and then BOOM, the main menu!?!? Not even any credits!

Is this game great? Yes. But it could have been so much better.

A fine game blasted by fans for no good reason

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: June 01, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I think many fans must have thought that Ion Storm was just going to remake the original Deus Ex with better graphics and were turned off immediately. Almost everything has been redesigned in Invisible War, so I'll just mention the most obvious things.

(1) What everyone seems to be pounding their fists about is that the skill point system is gone. I've played the original game several times and I still don't see the point of training in Medicine and Swimming. There is still Hacking, but it is handled by an Augmention that you can install and uninstall as need be. All Augmentions can be installed and uninstalled if you have the generic canisters, and there are plenty to go around.

(2) Invisible War focuses entirely on the Augmentions, and they made a good decision to have lots of augmentions available early in the game. My main criticism of Deus Ex 1 is that certain augmentations are hugely helpful like Speed and Toxin Resistance, while others just don't have much utility. The same goes for skills. Hacking is hugely important in Deus Ex 1. Also, since many are not available early in the game in Deus Ex 1, you don't get to experiment with the augmentions which I think is the whole point of a cyberpunk-themed game.

(3) The enemy AI is scary good. Deus Ex 1 had pretty weak enemy AI, at least compared to No One Lives Forever which came out about the same time.

(4) Weapons and weapon mods are also quite different. In Deus Ex 1, you can't hit the broad side of a barn with the pistol unless you specialize in the weapon class or use like five accuracy mods. Invisible War, the mods can be used to strengthen the weak aspects of a certain weapon (like refire rate) or add new abilities (like infliction of EMP damage). Grenades and mines are now separate things and enemies often carry grenades with them (similar to No One Lives Forever 2). The melee combat in this game is also quite good here.

(5) What I was most delighted about is that you don't need speed and jumping augmentions to get around in this game. The character is quite fast and agile normally. You can jump and mantle over things better than Garrett in the Thief games. On that note, there is real stealth play in this game, not the half-baked stealth in Deus Ex 1. Many of the people who worked Thiefs Dark Project and Deadly Shadows worked on the Deus Ex games, and the influence is obvious here.

(6) The only thing is didn't like is the inventory system which is a little clumsy and not space-based, so you can carry a flamethrower, a rocket laucher, and like 4 other big weapons at the same time.

(7) The biggest shock for me was that the "Bots" have all been totally redesigned. They all are modeled after animals! I'm not kidding you, you military bot is a dinosaur with a rocket launcher mounted on its back. I think this was a stroke of genius in terms of the story because after "the Collapse" most technology would have been abandoned or recreated from stratch.

On the surface, this is a huge departure from Deus Ex 1, but the stories are well-connected. The NPC interaction is just as strong as in Deus Ex 1, and they got the "side-quest" idea implemented right. The voice-acting is still first rate, and the music sounds good.

If you've played Deus Ex 1 and know the back story, give this game a fair shake. On the final mission, fans of the first game should look for a cute reference to a hilarious conversation between Gunther Hermann and Anna Navarre.

Stripped

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: December 13, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game has been stripped down from its predecessor, and made more basic.One annoying thing about the game is when you switch screens on the console you can't go from bio-mod to inventory without first returning to the game. This game is average at best.

So Far, So Good

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 12
Date: December 02, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I was apprehensive from the ads that this was targeted to a much younger audience than the first game, but upon playing the demo, it looks like they might have kept the dark atmosphere that was the core of the first game. At least it wasn't annoying like Unreal 2. As for how much gear you need, I was able to play the(very short)demo on a PIII 700 with an old ATI 8500 card. My advice would be to download the demo before you buy it.

DOES NOT SUPPORT GEFORCE MX OR OLDER ATI

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 25
Date: November 27, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I downloaded the demo and it wouldn't launch. Turns out your 3D card MUST HAVE pixel and vertex shading, T&L is not good enough. This is according to the Readme file that came with the demo. Thanks a lot Eidos/Ion Storm. At least Lucas Arts and other game companies games RUN with older hardware minus a few bells and whistles. I guess I'll buy this from the cheap stack in Wal-Mart 3 years from now when I can afford to upgrade my computer.

pretty good

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: January 05, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is better than most of the junk that gets pushed out onto the selves, BUT it still doesn't meet (IMO) the DX standard. I miss the skill development portion from the original game and the universal ammo seems a little too convinient, to me. At first try, the game wouldn't run correctly. Graphics were all wrong. But seeing the nVidia logo on the front, I expected as much. I am running a AMD 2000+XP/Win98SE/ATI9000/512MB machine by the way. It does crash to desktop every now and then, but with Win98SE, I am kinda used to that sorta thing. One thing that it does to me is it moves all my desktop icons around, I find that strange.

Anyways, those were my gripes. The story is still very good. I am only partially through it at the moment and I don't know which faction I can trust. (None, if it ends up like the first game) I like this game and I am sure that there will be a patch to fix many of the technical problems. I just recomend that if you are going to get it you should have at least a 64MB graphics card. Enjoy

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