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Deus Ex - Human Revolution.

I've recently replayed and again enjoyed the first one, and then *tried* to play the second installment "Invisible War" for the first time.

I have to say - IW was a complete disappointment, and I say complete without having actually completed it...I didn't get more than an hour in.
Everything I liked about the first game, was gone. The storyline seemed convoluted, the characters weren't interesting at all to me...and I found myself bored and just wondering around not knowing what to do, I found the nature of the objectives pretty unclear and just...I didn't feel the game at all basically.

It's disappointing to know that this was technically the only actual SEQUEL to the original game I liked so much - but playing it, I can see how it damn near killed the series for the better part of a decade.

Human Revolution on the other hand, thus far seems to be an excellent game.
I hope that when the series continues, it just carries on from this point.
It's engaging, it's interesting, the characters move around the right way, it's a really shiny game graphically, the dialogue is better...and the storyline makes sense...There's some new features and some old features that were missing from the second one.

I'd recommend this game, even to those that never played the first.
Enjoying it a lot.