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Summary: DON'T BUY THIS OR ANY EIDOS MERCHANDISE!!!
Review: I would highly reccommend going to a store and looking at the system requirements before you buy this game from Amazon. They dont show them to you on the website, and Eidos has decided to randomly not support some of the best graphics cards on the market, including the NVIDIA GeForce4 MX card, which i have on my computer. Despite this, they have decided to allow other NVIDIA cards to work with the game, although they are worse than the card that they don't allow. I'm going to start a holdout on Eidos merchandise because of their idiocy with system requirements and bugs in the games, and i would reccommend you do too. This game cost me 50 bucks, and if i were you be sure you check every square inch of the game before you buy it.
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Summary: Won't run with Geforce2 card
Review: The game won't run at all on a Geforce2 card, just exits immediately with an error message. The box does mention this in the fine print, but Amazon's information says nothing about it. Be warned that you need a very recent video card to run this game.
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Summary: What a Waste
Review: Too bad Eidos wasted all this time on a rush job... it's a pity they didn't take the time to debug and do it right; instead they rushed it resulting in many bugs and tied it to specific video cards. The first Deus Ex was great, albeit buggy too, but this thing is worthless. Don't buy Eidos games until they get their act together and return this if you bought it, make the retailers pressure them to fix stuff.
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Summary: A good game overshadowed by many flaws
Review: As a loyal desciple of the original Deus Ex game for PC, I was very anxious to play this sequal. Unfortunately, it has failed to even meet my expectations. While it still maintains many of the wonderful elements of the original, such as the open-ended RPG style gameplay, it is seriously hindered by poor AI, an ineffecient (albeit beautiful) graphics engine, and many, many poor decisions on the part of the developer (Ion Storm.)This is still a good game, but it is despite the gameplay changes made from the original, not because of them. You owe it to yourself to check out the demo on the official Invisible War website before you decide if this game is really worth it. The flaws are not easy to look past, especially if you are a fan of the original game.
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Summary: Played the demo and saved myself $40
Review: The graphics in this game aren't all that much of an improvement, but the game is incredibly choppy. Did Eidos use the UT2003 enging? I doubt it. I'm saving up to buy the GeForce FX 5700 Ultra, so Deus Ex 2 had better not be choppy at all. I've got a fast pc with a gig of PC3200 ram, so when I buy and install the 5700 Ultra, I'd better see 30 fps or more, or there is something seriously wrong with this game's engine.
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Summary: BUGGY! AHHH! 5 FPS!!!!!
Review: I had a fx 5200 card, and a creative 5.1 soundcard, and this game ran at 5 fps. Now i have a nvidia fx 5900 (just about the best game on the market), and an audigy 2 zs, (just about the best soundcard you can buy), and the game STILL runs at 5 fps. I emailed support, and they gave me no solutions, saying they would forward the problem onto the ion team, meaning i'ed never hear from them again. if they had even run this game ONCE after creating it, they would have found the problems, but unlike the first Deus ex game, this one is just for the money. I bet if this game acutally did run, it would be pretty cool, BUT IT DOESN'T!!! Oh, another thing! because my system requirements well excede the recomended requirements of the game, i figured i should get my money back from eidos interactive, right? WRONG! they said to return it to where i got it, (oh, i'll bet they'ed like that! an opened game, with my word that it doesn't work), or give it to them for store credit! well, i can tell you that i will NEVER be buying from them again, so WHAT A WASTE OF MONEY!!! UGH!!!!!!! DO NOT BUY THIS!!!!!
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Summary: Blatant Rush-job for Christmas 2003
Review: The retail version 1.0 of this game is so slow on an Athlon 1800+, 512MB, geForce ti4600 that you have to turn ALL shadows off and set texture and lighting details to minimum to run at anything more than 640x480 and get decent framerates. I have now installed the 1.1 patch and while this adds some nice features (quick save/load - duh, how does THAT get left out of a "modern" pc action/adventure game), but as far as fixing some of the glaring problems it is more of a configuration hack to turn off some of the eye candy to shut up us disgruntled PC gamers. My system ran MaxPayne2 at 1280x1024 with all details on max and only lagged during large explosion scenes - 90% of game play was liquid smooth. Even if the performance of the Deus Ex2 game was up to snuff, it's still extremely buggy, crashing to desktop between levels and sometimes just while you're standing there. As a software developer I think there's no way that this game left the shop without the powers that be at Eidos KNOWING FULL WELL that they had a clunker of a game on their hands and they were KNOWINGLY shilling it to the unwitting fans of the original Deus Ex. It's really a shame. I've never wanted to sue over a video game, but I'm not so sure a class action suit is not warranted based on the completely ridiculous system requirements listed on the box. Even the "recommended configuration" doesn't do the job.
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Summary: Merry Christmas
Review: Obviously released prematurely for Xmas, this game has more bugs and glitches than any game I've ever even heard of. The patch does nothing to fix any problems and when asked, the developers on the eidos website give answers that are borderline rude. A definite slap in the face to all gamers. It breaks my heart to think about how many kids unwrapped this Xmas morning to find that their game doesn't work because the eidos quarterly report might have suffered had they put a few more weeks into this pseudo software.
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Summary: Buyer Beware!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: I was so excited to get this game for christmas... Unfortunately, I did not read the fine print on the back of the box. Heck I bought this computer less than a year ago, should run the game right? WRONG!!!! This game is VERY selective about the graphic cards it will play on. Unfortunately, I now have a $40.00 coaster... or I can invest in a new card. I am wiser now, I won't buy an Eidos game anytime soon.
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Summary: Like the first one, this game is ahead of its time.
Review: Seriously, You should wait for some of next years hardware to play this on. I was on a 2.4 Ghz machine with 1 GB of RAM and a Nvidia 5600 with 256 MB of Video RAM and could not get a resolution above 800x600 without it getting choppy. The gameplay itself was great. The game had all the intrige of the first one. It has a great story and the changes to the biomod system where easy to get used to. But the big black mark against it, is that it requires heavy hardware before it looks as good as it should. The 1.1 patch helped a lot with the game play aspects that where console oreintated, but didn't help much with the engine. I should note, that there are tools to help with the technical shortcomings of the game, but one should not have to do this to play a game that is well above the minimal specs on a game.
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