jungletoad: If the game that is Deus Ex 2 were ever released, but never claimed to have anything to do with Deus Ex, would it still be such a bad game?
affenkopf: Probably not. The situation is somewwhat similar to Constructor and Street Wars. Everybody who played Constructor first hates Street Wars but it's not such a bad game. There are many games worse than DeusEx 2, but it's very hard to enjoy it if you know the greatnes that was the first game.
Definitely not. I played IW before ever playing the first Deus Ex and found it to be a great actiony FPS. I did not understand at all why people were getting so down on it. Then I played Deus Ex and began to understand. When comparing the two, IW is not a worthy successor to the first Deus Ex game, but on its own it is not a bad game at all.