DE:IW, my dear reader, is the best action-adventure I have ever played. Heck, if you are one of those who don't mind a real-time engine in your adventures, it's also one of the best adventures. If someone asked me five years ago, when I was still lamenting the dearth of good adventures and the slow and painful metamorphosis that my favorite genre was undergoing, what I imagine could save it, I could not have come up with a good answer. But Ion Storm did with DE:IW, and they did so rather magnificently.