And I just beat Deus Ex: Invisible War for the first and definitely final time.
Haha same here, I replayed DX1 and DX2 in a row before starting HR to get into the feeling and DX2 was such a drag.
Aww, come on, IW wasn't
that bad. The biggest mistake that game made was its depressingly short length, but I think everything else was rather well done. If it had just been about thirty hours longer, I'd line it up right next to the first game.
To expand on that a bit more, I think Ion Storm just got really caught up in the hype for the consoles and let it control how they developed the game, which is most likely responsible for most if not all of its shortcomings. What's there, though, is still pretty good to me. And we got Human Revolution as an apology (albeit from a different developer).