Even with its problems, Invisible War is the sand box experience we have come to expect from Deus Ex. It manages, without stats, to create an open ended futuristic world where you can role play the type of agent you want to be, decide who you will trust or help, and how you will bring the pain when necessary by your actions. That is what was at the core of the original Deus Ex, that magical freedom that still is really unprecedented in gaming. In the first game stats helped dictate your choices. That experience is recreated here but with you, as a player, using your own skills and wit in place of stats. The plot is as entertaining and in certain instances a bit richer than the original thanks to ambiguity as to what is good or evil. Lastly you still have multiple pathways and endings presented to you depending on what you decide to do, who you kill and how you kill them.