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Okay, on contrary to what Ash said about Dues Ex: Invisible War, here's the definitive review!

(X-Box ver.)

Story (10/10)

You play as Alex D, a bio-modded human simillar to that of JC Denton from the first Dues Ex. And you're a student at the Tarsus academy and at the start you're under attack by another organisation calling themselves "The Order" who apparently want to help you out (but you'll find that everyone seems to be looking out for your best interests. And its up to you as Alex D, to discover the truth behind the Tarsus conspiracy (or so you're led to believe, but I don't wanna give away any plot, but its a really involving one).

Gameplay (9/10)

The gameplay is brilliant, alot more open ended than the first game, the reason this doesn't get a 10 is due to the fact that some of the feel of the first one seems to have been lost, but I guess it makes it simpler for the console, considering you don't have a keyboard (ie. Keycodes or Logins are done automatically only if you've seen them prior to finding the correct keypad or computer terminal) and the damage system is done via a health bar (a shame because the first ones health system was fine). And it all feels alot more arcadey, but its still awesome fun.

Graphics (10/10)

Oh...my....god, f**king awesome, the best I've seen on the console so far, clothes wrinkle, the lighting beats Splinter Cell's easily and the physics are awesome! (Except when you throw a corpse into a box, either the box will go flying or the corpse will) the bodies flop realistically around things (yes, ragdoll is in this time around) and for those of you who like to horde their kills you can actually make corpse piles (the downside of this is that it lags the game , too much ragdoll to handle).

Lastability (9/10)

Even though I've finished it once, I'm playing it through again and doing different things (this game has AWESOME replay value, unless of course you do what a friend of mine did, and save it at the end and make different choices to get the endings) I've got two of the endings, I killed a certain person second time around because I wasn't satisfied with the ending I got from him (I'm not saying who "he" is, again I don't wanna ruin plot), you'll want to do everything before putting it down, and the fact the are so many different ways to tackle things (ie. Stealthing into a facility without getting spotted and incapacitating as opposed to killing guards, or run and gun etc...) adds even more replay value, but the game is short (I done it in 8 hours, 1 hour spent throwing corpses).