Yup. I think they tried to make IW's story as grand as the original, but what they accomplised was in fact, to bastardize Deus Ex's story.
I mean, at the end I was expecting to hear something like "We are the Borg, you will be assimilated".
Yeah. Why the hell do they have to explode on death? That was not only lame, but it effectively forced you to use ranged weapons, rendering close combat useless. And hey, thank God the
. Since when did they become the freaking MJ12?
Ah, yeah. I was expecting for it to be revealed as an instrument of either the
. But in the end, nothing. Damn shame.