This mod is probably the worst insult to the Deus Ex franchise yet. The level design is overdone with architecture that looks like a con artist gypsy architect went bat ♥♥♥♥ crazy with some government grant to redo all of the buildings. It is new age crap that looks so over-decorated with gimmicky glass displays and pointless archs everywhere that are all so out of place that you can't help but think that someone had to have been on PCP while making the maps.

The textures are so so, and that's only beacuse HDTP has been around awhile. To tell you the truth it's a modest improvement on the look of the game but I still prefer the original textures. But of course HDTP has nothign to do with this mod. That's something you can download separately.

The lighting in this game is atrocious. I can't believe there is literally a over-detailed round bulb "I'm in a better economic class than you" lights around every corner which completely destroys any chance you have of hiding in the shadows. The electricity bill for Paris must be in the billions per hour...

The music sounds like i'm being forced to eat my own crap while being told it's sexy. It's so weak, powerless and pussified with the softest of ♥♥♥♥♥ tones and lack of percussion I just want to take a few blocks out of my trenchcoat inventory for the vomit I wish to store there to avoid embarassment. I just imagine a castrated white suburbanite male who tries so desperately to get the attention of females that he will basically become a homosexual just to seem like Mr. Popular and Mr. In-crowd listening to this music in his Honda Civic while masturbating to gay porn magazines.

The models look like monkeys in the face, especially JC Denton/walton simons/Paul Denton, which are basically the same character model. They look ridiculous. As a matter of fact they look more like Napoleon dynamite.

Then there is the enemy interaction. Because the cities in the game obviously do not mind footing the million-dollar-per-hour utility bill, again, there is nowhere to hide and the enemies are often positioned in such a way you can't avoid getting into a fight. This just plain sucks...

And to top it off, it's DRM content. When I can just use new vision and HDTP with standard deus ex and it looks 10x better.

Ok, now onto some good news. The shifter mod for the ORIGINAL deus ex is really good you should try it. I have a certain version of it that allows you to vault/mount ledges like you would in the old Thief games. You can also switch off your cloak and armor vests to save their charges for later which is really a lifesaver in my opinion. Oh, but of course that doesn't have anything to do with DX:R.. but had to talk about something that doesn't make me feel ill.