The Deus Ex experience was quite unlike anything else. Although a flawed game on many levels, as a whole it worked wonderfully. People latched onto the vision and looked over the inadequacies, filling in the blanks with their imagination. Invisible War fixes many of the most glaring issues, streamlining the game and making it feel more like a complete entity than disparate systems trying to work together.

Removing skills, for example, might hurt the feeling of depth and complexity but it hasn’t actually had a negative effect on the gameplay. It was quite a while before I realized they were gone, and I didn’t really miss them. The idea is intriguing, but it didn’t work very well in the original. After all, JC Denton was a trained special forces operative – so how can you justify him being bad with guns?