Locational damage: It was there in the original running on a Quake engine, where is it this time. I really enjoyed the effects when my arms or legs were damaged in the original. It made you worried about aiming, getting to cover, etc. This new form is terrible
Unified Ammo: Once again catering to the console crowd. Fine put it on the XBox, but I really liked running out of ammo for a weapon and finding a hidden cache of it just in time, or having to change tactics because I was out of tranqualizer ammo.

the demo is sort of cheesy compared to the game: no real story investment, mostly very simplistic mission stuff, only a few side areas and no real character building

In an enthusiastic post I made about DXIW a couple of months back I ended up by saying, Wouldn't it be weird if it turned out to be crap? Meaning, I didn't believe there was a possibility it could happen, but, like, wouldn't it be weird in some alternate universe or something.

Well it's a piece of crap, folks.

I can't believe I actually won't be getting the game! My world has turned upside down. But it's simply unplayable on the PC. If there's revolutionary gameplay down there someplace it just ain't worth digging through the steaming layers of putrid interface to get to it. And I don't mean just the HUD, which you can sorta tweak with that FOV param thing in the ini file, I mean the whole goddam mess.