As most others will tell you, Invisible War is probably best ignored. The first one, for me anyway, holds up surprisingly well. It's pretty janky compared to what you'd expect nowadays, but as long as you go into it knowing it's 16 years old and what that might entail, it's a fun experience.Human Revolution's a fun game as well (apart from the boss sequences) but it is a fairly different experience.
Instead, A Criminal Past is a solid, self-contained Deus Ex: Mankind Divided mission that’s a little on the expensive side at $12. It doesn’t offer too many surprises or any radical changes to. In Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, there are a total of 75 eBooks that must be collected for this achievement. They are all technically missable since there is no mission select and you cannot free roam around Prague post-narrative.
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It also only loosely ties itself to the first one, so if you're short on time or patience, the original isn't necessary.EDIT: With regards to why Invisible War is best skipped, it's a myriad of issues. The levels themselves are boring and incredibly claustrophobic with constant loading screens, the story is a bit of a mess, the controls and gunplay are awkward, the universal ammo system (rockets use the same ammunition as a pistol) is a strange compromise, the voice work is actually worse in a lot of ways than the first (which isn't great to begin with) and the upgrade system is incredibly simplified down to picking one of two relatively uninteresting choices. There's probably more, but that's what comes to mind immediately. In a lot of ways it comes down to 'they tried to make Deus Ex, for consoles!' Which, in 2003, meant a lot of unfortunate compromises. You can completely skip Invisible War & The FallIdeally you should play them in chronological order - Deus Ex, Deus Ex Human Revolution, Deus Ex Mankind DividedHuman Revolution is a prequel to Deus Ex, set quite a while before, and Mankind Divided simply follows on from Human Revolution.Playing Deus Ex would give you a better idea into some of the characters, organisations, companies, augs and other references you'll find, but you should be perfectly fine just playing HR and MK if that is what you'd rather do. I'm playing Deus Ex Revision (HQ textures plus map revamps) and it is a good way to start even though some parts of it are different from the original.
My notes are here:- Deus Ex does not start well. Liberty Island (1st mission) is the worst level in the game and you'll just have to do it. Battery Park (2nd mission) is where the game shows its strengths for the first time with obvious hostile places and a peaceful outside area where you can search for items and secret routes. Plan your approach.- Do your first playthrough on Easy difficulty no matter what your ego says. You will have a much better time going through the levels, and the game still provides a challenge in many parts. Higher difficulties are for those who know the maps already.- THERE IS NO AUTO SAVE. Save the game immediately after the opening cut scene.
Save the game before entering an area you think is dangerous. If you have trouble, try another route, there are many options.- It will take a while for you to start getting augmentations. You only start out with a light. Do not miss the light-blue canister in the room where your Liberty Island mission ends.- When you get a new augmentation, go to your keyboard settings and check the bottom of key bindings, you can bind another key for it instead of using the F key.
You should play all of them. If you want to play them for historical value, you have to play all of them. That's the baseline.
Here's the fucking rundown. You cannot say you are a Deus Ex enthusiast and not at least play all Deus Ex games. That's fucking baseline. Folks shit on Invisible War but guess what, it's a fucking Deus Ex game and you can't just write it out of history.Anyway you could just play the first one and check some guides if you're feeling hopeless. It's not that hard, but you can fuck yourself over and there's some outcomes that won't be apparent in the game, and if you're not looking to play it a second time there's really nothing to lose by reading about what you can do beforehand. You should play all of them.
If you want to play them for historical value, you have to play all of them. That's the baseline. Here's the fucking rundown. You cannot say you are a Deus Ex enthusiast and not at least play all Deus Ex games. That's fucking baseline.
Folks shit on Invisible War but guess what, it's a fucking Deus Ex game and you can't just write it out of history.Anyway you could just play the first one and check some guides if you're feeling hopeless. It's not that hard, but you can fuck yourself over and there's some outcomes that won't be apparent in the game, and if you're not looking to play it a second time there's really nothing to lose by reading about what you can do beforehand. Play the first one, it's incredible and there's really nothing else like it. Mods are not at all necessary, short of the ones that add widescreen support. It's not a beautiful game and no amount of mods will fix that, so just play it as it was designed rather than trying to gild the lily.Also play Human Revolution.
Enjoy it for what it is, but try not to compare it with the original as you play because you'll probably just ending up thinking about what it's missing rather than what is offers. Still a good game though.Don't play Invisible War.