For those of you who loved Deus Ex I'm probably going to provoke allegations of bias now by saying that I came to play Invisible War having never even touched the original classic. Yes, stone me if you want, but when Deus Ex was released I was honeymooning with Quake 3 (a game I still love 4 years after its release) and simply didn't have the time for the more cerebral challenge that Deus Ex waved in front of my eyes like a hypnotic Far Eastern belly dancer. My friends tell me I missed out on something a bit special, one particular sad case even confesses to still loading up the old girl now and again to have a little run around on, but, despite this, I've always resisted the temptation. As you'll find out later on in this review my experiences of the game might have been a bit different if I had completed the first installment, so that is something you should take into consideration when reading what follows.