Overall, this is a game that let me down. Were my expectations too high? I don't think so. I wasn't expecting a game that would revolutionize the genre, as Deus Ex did. I would have been satisfied with a graphical upgrade to the same underlying gameplay mechanics. Hell, I would have been satisfied even without the graphical upgrade. What I got, however, what Ion Storm produced, is a game that is less than its originator, in almost every way. That's not to say that Deus Ex 2 is a bad game. It isn't. It retains the "feel" of the dystopian future created in Deus Ex 1, and the storyline is fairly compelling, the first time you play through the game. In the final equation, however, that's just not enough. Deus Ex 1 was a game that set a high water mark for its genre, and set a standard that it seems nobody, not even its creators, can match. Ultimately, Deus Ex 2 is a game that could have been great, but wasn't. And that's the most disappointing fact of all.