I recently completed it.
I do not fully agree with that. While gameplay and level design is terrible in comparison, it actually packs a somewhat compelling story, and is similar to Deus Ex 1 when it comes to such things as story elements, the importance of choice, dialogue, political discourse and the overall atmosphere. It could have been a great game if it hadn't been handicapped with cramped levels and dumbed down game mechanics.
They did the same thing to Oblivion.
Answered your question right there OP. Honestly, this happened with numerous games during that era (Sequels of previous gen titles that were nothing like the previous games). Doom 3 suffered a similar occurrence, to use as an example.
However, it seems like a similar incident is happening lately in the industry like with BG&E2 and nuPrey. The only difference, however, is that the games released back then like DE:IW, Doom 3, Wind Waker, Prime, etc. is that they were all still good games despite the distanced relationship between their previous entries. However, with all the new shit coming out, they're mediocre at best, terrible at worst, and people pray that they're forgettable enough so that they can memory block it out of the rest of the series. To put it simply, people were upset back then because they didn't receive what they thought they would, however, today, people are upset because the product isn't any good on top of not being what they asked for.
I want autists to kill themselves.
Sometimes that's the easiest way
Denton, of course.
I would most certainly give the D to that female Alex D.
Wasn't it only on Xbox? And isn't Xbox emulation still shit?
Yes, thanks to those fellas
Thanks for reminding me of this
There's a patch that supposedly makes it run, but I haven't tested it myself ttlg.com