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Summary: Deus Ex is easily one of the best computer games ever made.
Review: Deus Ex is a fantastic game. The single player storyline is fascinating, drawing one into the story. And you don't want to leave. This game, a combination of heroin and Godzilla, pulled me in, and wouldn't let me out, devouring whole weekends and hours of free time. The gameplay is a lot of fun, and is very open-ended. Many games talk about how there's the option of sneaking in or running in with the guns blazing, but this is the only game where you can see real direct effects of those choices. Run in with an assault rifle and you'll have a lot of corpses lying on the floor. But due to that gun's recoil, one guy runs off long enough to hit an alarm sounder. Suddenly dozens of guards and security robots swarm the area. You're dead very quickly. Everything you do has consequences. Characters in the game will react differently to whether you run into an area and slaughter everyone in sight or slowly approach, and take them alive instead. Because of every choice changing the game, there's a high replayability level to see what would have happened if you had done things differently. The inventory system, the nanotech augmentations (special abilities you can gain) and the skills system (completing objectives gets you skill points, which let you become better in certain areas such as electronics, ability with weapons, and lockpicking) are all intuitive and simple. Bottom line: This is a great game, and you will enjoy it.
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Summary: Deus Ex: and you thought it couldn't get better!
Review: Deus ex is one hell of a piece of work. It combines wondrous gameplay and excellent graphics to create a game so good, I played the demo 10 times before buying the game. From a tranquilizer crossbow to an assault shotgun to a Light Anti-tank Weapon(LAW), the game has awesome guns. The augmentations, which give you special abilities, and skills, which you can increase to improve your character's abilities, only improve the games awesome aspects. The characters all fit into a plot, colored all over as as JC Denton (you) trying to stop a plot by conspiracists to take over the world. Almost every character you meet fits into the jigsaw puzzle some way or another, and the story becomes increasingly complex as you move through it. But don't worry, their is a special fuction that allows you to view every conversation you've had, and it even takes notes for you! This game is impossible to put down, and they even included multiplayer! The game of the year edition is wonderful!
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Summary: Unbeliveble game play
Review: There is something about this game that strikes me as wierd. It is wierd in the way that the storyline is so complete, and so in depth, that you're life almost becomes a part of it. At first when I started playing the game I thought "oh man, the graphics aren't that great, and its kinda wierd, but I payed pretty decent money for it, so I better just beat it and go on with my life." Boy was I wrong. About 1.5 hours of gameplay into the game, I was hooked. Everything from the characters, to the gameplay is enthralling. After 6 hours of gameplay (at 2 hours a night) It started taking me over. I would wake up in the morning, the first thing in my head was the music playing. Ah yes, the music. The music is PERFECT for every situation in this game, it sets the mood perfectly, and in some ways, its comforting. Definetly put your money into this game, you will never regret it. I only wrote this review because this game has been a very interesting part of my life, no matter how sick that sounds, this game is amazing.
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Summary: Sets a new standard for replayability
Review: For a long time now, Half-Life has been my favorite futuristic first-person shooter. Now Deus Ex occupies that slot. No other FPS I've ever played has had this level of flexibility to build your character's personality and skills. The decisions you make on how you train your character; how you assign mods to weapons; how you assign augmentations; and whether you use fire power, stealth, or technology to overcome obstacles affect the entire game. It even has three distinct endings based on the decisions you make in the final stage.The game plays excellently, with no noticable bugs that I could find. The player movement is smooth and there's no tendency to get stuck on items. Even swimming is very natural. However, you're always on foot except in the cut scenes and the weather is always the same. There's no rain or snow and I don't recall any variation in the light levels either. The character interactions are complex and you'll find yourself having interesting conversations with bar-tenders, computers, and many other characters. There's a complex story-line (will we see Deus Ex - the movie?) that's worth paying attention to. For example, I recommend you watch the interrogation of the NFS prisoners. This is way more than a crude 'shoot everything that moves' FPS. The weapons selection is excellent with a wide arsenal of deadly and non-deadly options. The inventory size is controlled by a Diablo-like grid which is large enough to let you carry a lot, but still forces you to make difficult decisions sometimes. One odd thing, though - once you have some of the smaller items like grenades you can add more without using up inventory space, but if you try to pick up a different type of grenade you use up space. So you can carry 15 gas grenades but not one gas grenade and one EMP grenade. I understand it from a user-interface point of view, but it's not realistic. There are many, many small but nice touches in the game. For example, if you kill people in the first stage on Liberty Island, your brother admonishes you. But if you use stun rods and tranc darts to avoid killing baddies, your brother tells you you're doing well. It doesn't affect the game but someone took the time to code it. The game is quite long, perhaps not as long as Half-Life, but longer than RTC Wolfenstein. I would happily pay twice the current price...on Amazon. I fully expect to play this game, trying different options, for a long time.
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Summary: Do Not Miss This Game!
Review: Words can hardly describe the joy, the wonder, the amazement and the fun I get out of playing this classic RPG/Adventure/Shooter. Everything about this game is flawless. Well, not quite but it gets pretty damn close. You play as JC Denton, a UNATCO Agent ready take out terrorists and rid the world of tyranny. The main synopsis is that in the year 2052 the earth's population is being ravaged by a killer virus called "Gray Death" while terrorist groups openly kill and seek to expand their growing network of evil. What I love about this game is that you can chose your own skills (Lockpicking, electronics, weapon usage, computer hacking etc..) and augmentations that boost your strength, stamina, speed and many other options. You can do missions in endless ways such as go in with guns blazing or use the stealth approach to achieve your mission objectives. The graphics, considering their from 2000, are still good looking while the sound is also exceptional. The cd with 30 remixed songs which is included with the Game of the Year Edition, is so awesome to listen to that it's been in my cd player for weeks. This game has some of the coolest music I have ever heard. On that note, go out and get this incredible game. Believe me, you will not regret it.
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Summary: totally unsurpassed gaming experience
Review: Even after 4 years this game still has a replay value worth a lot more than most new games out nowadays. True, its graphics aren't a match with the current crop, but it's gameplay, rich environment, fantastic music and incredibly intelligent story and execution will make the graphics issue a moot point. You'll get so absorbed by the DX world and its characters (whether major or minor) that you're guaranteed to run through the game at least thrice, just to see what would happen if you went through a part (or parts) another way (and there are usually more than 2). And believe me, there are so many variations on how you can play the game, many tactics you can employ, different conversations to be had, books and emails to read and so much more that it is truly a very interactive story. This game is a hybrid of multiple genres (FPS/Action/Adventure/RPG) incorporating the best aspects of each into a seamless gaming experience. The interface is straightforward and managing targeting, skills/health/augmentations/goals would soon become second nature even to die-hard FPS fans. You can choose to go all gungho agressive and kill/disable everyone on sight, or be a pacifist and not kill anyone at all. You can choose to save characters, fail to do so, or even ignore them. There's also a coolness factor. In what other game can you hack into security terminals and ATMs? - and some logins and passwords are guessable, the others can be found by doing a little sleuthing. Yes, this game can run under Windows XP and most current computers can run this gem with the details maxed out with no problem. I can still see myself playing this great (but sadly generally underrated) game another 5-10 years from now. A must have.
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Summary: One of Computer Gaming's True Triumphs
Review: Most of the time when you think of a first-person shooter, you picture fast-paced slaughter and mayhem like in the legendary Quake and Unreal line. Deus Ex, however, adds an unprecedented level of intelligence to a genre previously devoid of any thought other than "if it moves, kill it".
Deus Ex follows Agent JC Denton on his first assignment for UNATCO - an anti-terrorist group with wide-reaching jurisdiction. JC is a special nanotech-augmented cyborg with a wide range of superhuman abilities. You are able to customize your character throughout the game in an RPG-esque style. Want to go in with guns blazing? Increase training in heavy arms and pistols. Want to take out the bad guys from a distance? Focus on Rifle training. Want to hack into the security system and have it eliminate the bad guys for you? Train heavily on electronics and computers. Want to be able to heal yourself instantly? Train up on Medicine. Depending on how you train your character, the gameplay changes significantly. This not only adds tremendous amounts of depth, but also increases the replay value. As if that wasn't enough, the storyline is very intricate and boasts some superb twists. You will end up not knowing who to trust as the game goes on. The plotline culminates in three possible endings, depending on whose side you choose.
Highest possible recommendation.
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Summary: finally a game worth playing for :P
Review: i got deus Ex free with my new pc, played it once and cant put it down, i just recieved my broadband and honestly i got 10-20 games i can play online, but i chose this one :) i cant seem to say much about 1st player, ive played some of it and its great, u earn "points" through out the game to spend on training for a particular thing you would like to get better at lol e.g. rifle, heavy weapons etc, i mostly play online now, i like to play with alot of people who have a smart mind with tactics, well this game, you need it ;) you can have 2 teams, 15 people each side. 1 team has taken the warehouse turrets (machine gun defence) and the team await behind the defence with deadly snipers. Your team, plans a way to get in there, you rush in, only a few survive with skill and your team has control of the turrets and now you wait... for the right moment to shoot your gun :)
LOADS of guns included - about 15+ i say, 5 out of 5 for this, yea, the graphics are old - but a true gamer dont go for graphs they go for gameplay, this game, has it all :)
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Summary: A true masterpiece
Review: In case you had to read through all these reviews, stop now. Just order the game. The story might seem a like some crazy left winger's nightmare, but the game is what makes it special. Hop into this unique, and diverse world, and lose yourself.
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Summary: great game, fun to play but...
Review: gosh those graphics are dated.
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