This is as far as I could tell you, I won't share any more spoilers than this. If anything, the gameplay is shitload of fun and if some piece of shit would think the opposite, they can go fuck themselves if they hate joy. Speaking of anti-fun, I was playing Deus Ex 2 for a couple of hours, but I couldn't bother to beat the game because... I don't even know how do I start this. First and foremost, I feel sincerely sorry for Ion Storm, not. Just... Okay. Why is this game real? Why does it exist? Because I want to know what fucking imbecile would think of implementing this franchise to a console. I don't care if Deus Ex for the PS2 was a success or not. I've never interpreted Deus Ex as a videogame exclusively for consoles, or at least a game that could be consolified, in fact it should've been the last fucking game to be released for the consoles. And just adding salt to a wound, developer company (or their publisher Eidos Montreal) modified Unreal Engine, for some reason. And guess what? That decision, they did a pretty fucking awful job out of it and it's what made the game unplayable in every way imaginable.

I really tried playing this, I did. But I got easily bored everytime I had to load a fucking savefile and it takes forever to load so. That's also because it's something to do with unused textures, or whatever the fuck it is for the game to be this unoptimized than it doesn't need to be, even for a modified game engine. If the loading screen takes this long, I bet the framerate is agonizing on Xbox. Oh, it is? Well that's a complete waste of investment alright. Matter of fact, the whole game is a waste of investment. Potentials, talent, good aspects, fucking everything that was in the first Deus Ex title, all evaporated in its sequel, so much so that there's nothing worthy of checking it out.

To tell you how fucking terrible this game is, take a good look at Deus Ex's environment.

And now Deus Ex 2's.

Ion Storm weren't fucking around when it comes to the aesthetics. They paid the attention to almost every detail, so not only the developers knew you'd consider going this way, they knew each location and spent their best efforts on capturing the atmosphere, this choice wishes the player to integrate into the unknown, certainly undesirable world that wants you to explore the whole of it. Deus Ex 2's environment, does not bring the same feeling. I mean look at this fucking garbage, does it really look nice when it's all so... boring? Really it's one of the main reasons why I couldn't continue my playthrough, it feels so generic and shallow and dull and outright boring, I feel like I'm losing all my motivation when I look at the graphics. I don't know about you but it gives the impression that Ion Storm could care less about the design as much as for all the game aspects, leaving me (or anyone who had played this) completely uninterested.

Oh yeah, speaking of the visuals, they're HORRIBLE. I want to fucking vomit everytime I pay attention to it. If there is a game that needs one of them Fallout 3 ENB mods, it's this piece of shit. I can't believe this was passed by testers (as if they had them). Well thankfully I'm not a graphics whore or anything like that, it could've been easily fixed by testing their game properly, think long and hard on how unironically ugly the graphics are. I guess they didn't so let's talk about the gameplay.

One of Deus Ex's features as an immersive simulator is conversating with the NPCs, every chance you get to talk to a local, you're gathering new information, or it's to be aware of their thoughts. Deus Ex 2 also has that, but the way voice acting was done... No, you don't feel like you're talking to a person, you're talking to a fucking robot. Alex D, the protagonist, also acts like a robot and is not even able to express their emotions by voice. Just what the fuck is this? The protagonist of the first Deus Ex game wasn't sentimental but at least he felt like a human being, and so did every character in the game. There might be an excuse for Alex, a soulless doll from being used as an experimental rat, is or was owned by a corporation, putting themselves into a literal fucking errand boy/girl for everybody, particularly who's in charge, but a lot of NPCs act and sound like robots or humanoids, they're far less intelligent and far below their class than the protagonist. How could they fuck up voice acting as well? Did they know just how shit the game was?

Yeah apparently it is really awful if the gunplay is unbearable. First off, why would someone in their mind, replace ammo with universal ammo? FUCKING WHY? This does not compute with Deus Ex in any way. Can this get any worse? And not only that but it makes the combat less fun than it is enough. Every weapon in the game shares their ammo, even a railgun, even a fucking rocket launcher. The fuck you mean a rocket launcher uses battery cells? Shouldn't the whole world PACK with heavy weapons if that's the fucking case? The combat is pure unsatisfactory, you blast towards an enemy face to face and you don't feel the sudden shock you're expecting from a shotgun, any gun doesn't bring you any sort of punch because even powerful weapons like Sniper Rifle only will make you ask yourself a question, "Are the firearms even firearms?". And don't get me started with non lethal playthrough, in the first Deus Ex it was an option for an agent (you) to proceed with discretion, but don't bother with Deus Ex 2, it's impossible to keep up your playthrough knowing just how atrocious the game really is. It's so atrocious when, for example, a shotgun can miss point blank. Point fucking blank.

It's bad enough the combat system is abysmal, I have not mentioned anything of gameplay. Let me ask you this, can it be CONSIDERED gameplay? With fuck ups like this, what can go wrong? It's much less interactive, you can't even use a fucking terminal, you're not allowed to do that anymore because now you can only HACK them. It's not possible to access through security system unless you have a code, once you've found the code, your protagonist is now able to interact. Why... why in the FUCKING WORLD WAS THAT A GOOD IDEA? I don't fucking care if the protagonist doesn't know, this is an immersive simulator for christ sake, it's the whole point of the subgenre, you're SUPPOSED to have total freedom. And when the game already gives you a handful of weapons and augmentation canisters... well it's a clear sign that this game is gonna be very short. Thank god for that, huh? If it was really really short I would've finished it, I didn't. I get the feeling it'll be too fucking long.

Alright, alright, I get it. You hate this game, you resent it to death but guess what? So does everybody. Everyone knows it's a pile of shit, so why bother? I think I may have not told you this, but I give videogames a chance. Whether it's considered to be an awful game or a good game. If I say that this piece of shit sucks, it sucks. If I say this piece of shit might be good, it might be. And if I say, that this piece of shit is not actually a piece of shit, it's not. I haven't discovered any more examples other than Blood 2 and of course this particular game. I gave it a chance, you see now? I'm very much disappointed at anyone, and I mean anyone, who was willing to work on this project, Ion Storm did not mind the fact that their game would be a total fucking failure if it could just work properly, it wouldn't matter unless the game isn't even fun to play, so it fucking blows in any way.

The only reason I considered playing it is obvious: I finished Deus Ex, I loved the story to death, I wanted to play the sequel... only to be left with sorrow and regret. Did I play it for the story? If that's the only thing it kept me playing, then absolutely. I wanted to know what happened to old faces and what's gonna happen to new faces. The story is so fucking good that it made me play this trash, but since this is the Internet age, I'n able to watch someone's full walkthrough on YouTube anytime I desire because this game does not bring me the joy, I don't think the cheats would help somehow.

And let's say that there may be improvements, learned from mistakes of the first game (I can't even tell which), surprisingly they've designed ragdoll physics, you could toss the body anywhere you'd feel to. Does it make this game any more bearable? The obvious answer is no. You were expecting for me to put an additional information to this? Again, no. This shit is not worth it, this game was not worth it. Just a huge waste of fucking time. And you know what else? Reviewing this game is a waste of time as well, it costed me time and wasted my potentials. Let's pretend that it never came out of the light, that the developers thought first instead of making moves, now if you excuse me, I'm going to buy Super Nintendo along with the cartridge, containing Super Metroid. Why? Because even if that is a waste of money, I'd rather not bore myself to death.

But... I'm not gonna end on this note. You see, I've come across a particular video on YouTube, it's... an easter egg. First off, there was no way this piece of shit would have an easter egg. Second, I thought it was a fucking joke or something, like some deranged asshole with a level editor (if it was a real thing) had just made this as an April Fools joke. It wasn't uploaded on the first of the month and from what I've analysed, it's definitely fucking real. It's not just an easter egg but a showcase of developers' quotes during the development. It's mainly just the most outrageous shit they've said, but I want to focus on what I've just discovered. "Monte: Gosh dang this f*cking frame rate" ...So, if they knew about the game issues, they were still willing to publish the game? They knew the PROBLEM THE WHOLE FUCKING TIME AND THEY DIDN'T BOTHER FIXING IT?

You know what? I was about to write an another monologue about how much this game, fucking sucks. But I'm tired of repeating myself, in this case I'll just throw the fewest words any sane human being would've said by now: Fuck you all.