Deus Ex 3 aims to continue the trend of great IPs being snatched up and reduced to dogshit braindead shooters for the Xbox contingent because the idea of a challenging or interesting game is too scary for Halo-playing manchildren to risk dropping $60 of their hard-earned frat party money on and it's a lot safer for everyone to just make Garbage Futuristic FPS #3256 rather than face the daunting possibilities of actually making good design decisions or coming up with an idea that hasn't been done twenty seven times this year alone.

You recall wrong -- Deus Ex 2 was total garbage that everyone quickly tried to forget about, and they're pretending to have learned from its mistakes even as they make the same ones all over again. Here's a lil preview of DX3:

- Health automatically regenerates a la Call of Duty.
- Stealth now relies on a cover system gimmick.
- Augs feature such subtle improvements as "punching through walls to grab enemies in neighboring rooms" and "bungie jumping off buildings"
- Art direction looks like some horrendous JRPG shit, despite the fact that it's supposed to be a prequel to a game that was actually pretty well grounded in reality.

But hey, Xbox owners will love it!

Weren't you like 9 years old when DX came out?   I guess you could have "revisited it" in the last year or so...

I half-agree with Brosnan on Deus Ex 2.  On the up side there was the same wide range of choices with even varying factions to ally with, a not-too-brilliant but thoughtful character creation mode with choice of gender, beautiful lighting and the Omar.  The Omar are fucking awesome and I will not hear otherwise.
On the down side the game dumbed down with less biomods, less RPG stuff, being shorter and that really irritating problem of having ALL your guns share the SAME ammo.
It's not that brilliant when you use up an entire ammo load for rocket launchers only to then find you kinda fucked yourself with not enough for a good assault rifle spread.

Good game, shame it was dumbed down in gameplay.  I just hope the third, a prequel as well, will stay like the first game instead but look prettier.
Also, health regeneration?  That better be because I get the health regen biomod at the start which I always picked in the first game.  Because I'm real tired of this auto-regen all shooters seem to have as if you really can heal wounds by sitting in a corner rocking back and forth.

Oh I know IW wasn't, I meant to say that since Deus Ex 3 is also being a prequel there is more pressure on it, lil mistake of mine there.
Anyways Helios is awesome yes but Omar are <3

mmm nope looks exactly like what they described it as. Cyberpunk with Renaissance influence. Definitely not ridiculous enough to be FF aesthetic.

Wait, I thought we were talking about the supposed aesthetic similarity to final fantasy, where did discrepancies in continuity come from?