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Summary: One of the most memorable games ever
Review: [...]. And after getting into the game this happy grin on my face would not go. This has to be one of the best PC Games ever. It has an intriguing story line and although the voice acting is a bit patchy the game keeps you interested the whole way though. The gameplay is absolutly awesome and the greatest part would just be the amount of ways 1 problem can be solved. The biggest problem with the game is its lousy framerates. Because its based on the Unreal Engine the game performance is not good on a non-voodoo card. I have a fast PC (Athlon 1Ghz, 256MB RAM, GeForce 2) and had to download drivers to just get the game running at a playable framerate. The graphics are good but if you dont have a VooDoo card then the framerate will suffer badly. Dont let me put u off on that. This is still one of my favourite games off all time, and my Favourite PC Game Ever (even beating Half Life!)
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Summary: Not bad but... not great.
Review: I'm kinda stumped as to why everyone went so nuts over this game.
I found it kinda boring and repetitious, of course I was playing Max Payne at the same time which in my opinion blows this game away.
The first thing that bothered me was the system requirements just to get this game to look good, I'm running a PIII 933 with 256MB of DDR and a 64DDR Nvidia Geforce 2, and it still choked up in some areas unless I turned the graphic settings down.
Fortunately the game had some interesting concepts that kept me playing for a while but I eventually became bored and never finished the game.
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Summary: The best of all genres!
Review: This game combines RPG's, first-person shooters, action, adventure and puzzle genres into one amazing game. At the beginning the various augmentations and specializations can seem confusing, but play through the first mission (another interesting component - unlike other games, the first mission is neither easy or low-risk), and you'll find yourself upgrading like the pros. For those of you like me who like to explore every corner of their virtual world , then rejoice! What in the past yielded fruitless results will now get you extra exploration points, that go towards your specialization upgrades. As the specializations go, you can become a bad... napalm-throwing killing machine, or an elite hacker few systems can withstand. Or, you could decide to focus on your lockpicking skills, for when you really want to see what's behind that door. For the smokers out there, rejoice! Specialize in environmental and you'll be able to withstand nearly every possible toxin, poison and gas. (You'll also find many cigarettes during the course of your game)
I think though, what makes this game so compelling is how real the environment seems, and how free you are to do as you please. Along the way, you'll meet people who want to sell you items (some you want, others are junk). Want to buy some napalm, but don't have enough credits? (1 credit = 1 dollar) If you specialized in computers, just hack into an ATM and withdraw all the money. Or, if you specialized in melee weapons, pull a knife on the seller and raid his corpse. See a building you want to enter? You could take the front door, but is there a back door? Maybe a sewer pipe leads in. There are so many ways to complete your objectives that this game quickly becomes all-engrossing.
Finally, what this game has in spades is a brilliant, ever-twisting plotline, influenced by your events during the game. UNATCO is the righteous organization, dedicated to giving out the much-needed ambrosia vaccine to victims of the "Gray Death" - or is it? MJ-12 is completely separate of UNATCO, right? Is it? Just a suggestion for those who buy this game (buy it now!), during the course of the game read the stray newspapers and books lying around. They piece together a vibrant history of America, up until 2052. You'll learn how President Mead took power. You'll learn about the Order of Cincinnatus, formed in 1785 by George Washington to take over the government by force in case the flegdling democracy fell, and still a super-secretive group. (Is it even a gruop? Type "Order of Cincinnatus" into a search engine and find out!) Kudos to all the writers. Actually no, double kudos. For gosh sakes, you've been reading this review for long enough. Go out and buy Deus Ex already!
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Summary: One of the best ever
Review: An immersive Sci-Fi roleplaying game from Eidos and Warren Spector, Deus Ex is one of my all-time favorites. Combining roleplaying elements with FPS action and a great story to follow, of which you can influence the outcome of, Deus Ex has few rivals to date. Political conspiracies, familiar turf, moral choices to make, gun battles to win, far away locales to visit...Deus Ex grabbed me and didn't let go until I finished it. The game now has a multiplayer mode as well now and may be of interest to some.
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Summary: When does the sequel come out?
Review: I will take some time to explain a couple key elements to the game, and explain why you should play this unique, amazing game. 1: You play HOW you want to play:
-Silent and sneaky or violent, rambo style
-Close range or long range weaponry
-Primitive or extremely high-tech weapons
-High explosives or tranquilizer darts
-Computer hacking ability or being a master of lock picking 2: This game is not a First Person Shooter (FPS) the way we've ever seen on before.
-A similar game that was released recently is called Metal Gear Solid for PS2. However, this game for PC I think has a little more depth and possible creativity. 3: Replay value. Replay value is the best thing any game could possible have.
-The first time I played, I trained myself to be a master sniper/master hacker. I sat back, picked enemies off from a distance (or close range sniping) and the surviving enemies had a heck of a time trying to find me.
-The second time I played, I trained my pistol skills all the way to the max, and I could pick someone off sniperlike, using a silenced pistol. If I was in close quarters, I whipped out the trusty flamethrower to teach em who's boss. ....Trust me, this game is worth the money. I eagerly await the sequel, in production now.
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Summary: Most engrossing PC game ever.
Review: This is the best PC game I have ever played. The level of interactivity and the "go anywhere, do anything" design make it extremely fun; you will find yourself just messing around with the game just to see what it can do. Get this game and enjoy it. You will play it at least twice.
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Summary: Well deserving of praise and promise
Review: Let me start with the bad news - very demanding on resources; the save games are HUGE, and the older systems crawl. Crashed very rarely though. Graphics intensive too.
But other than these minor details, an excellent game that redefines the first-person / role playing / strategy hybrid genre.
I had a blast - the scenery was immersive. I could appreciate the sharp echoes of drops of water in underground Paris catacombs, the brisk buffeting wind atop Hong Kong high rises, etc. A genuine globe-trotting techno-adventure.
Deus Ex presented many tight spots to me that needed strategy and even trickery to get past; I had to use quick save / load a lot! Definitely challenged my trigger happy Quake-derived methods of getting out of jams, simply cos you don't have that much fire power lying around.
But I really wish I had more rockets and grenades. Sigh. Those damn droids and robots really gave me a run for the money, and shotguns, etc were like pea shooters.
Anyway what really got me was the absolutely brilliant plot that runs through the whole game like a rich, diverse tapestry of ideas. The concept of world-domination, multinational conglomerates, new-world order, etc was fascinating. A very deserving treatment of modern mythologies with ancient origins, that reveals itself in digestible doses as you go from stage to stage.
I felt like a modern day knight-in-arms fighting against a dark hidden empire, bent upon global domination with an agenda stretching back hundreds of years, much greater than my pitiful abilities and ambitions.
Deus Ex let me exit with a grand finale that was truely to my liking; the game anticipated my intentions, and gave me the moral and ethical choice I would have preferred anyway. I wonder what you will choose? At that final point in the game, the fate of the world would be in the palm of your hand.
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Summary: Best game ever!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: The second i saw this here in a magazine i thought of getting it and then after reading more about it i finally bought it and i thought it was very to start of with because this was the first time i had ever played a first-person shooter and when i got into it i couldn't stop playing it.
I have completed it four times and right now im going through for the fifth time using new strategies and exploring new places i had never been before, which shows you that even after so many times you can still be suprised by the amount of freedom in it such as taking multiple routes,completing sub-missions like going to kill a spy in a clinic disgised as a Journalist,being able to choose what your player looks like and what his abilities are such as rifles,pistols etc.
The storyline is ultimately compelling spanning across contries such as new york,hong kong,paris and even Vandenburg launch station.
The graphics in this game are really good and the character animation is top-notch.
overall this is a game to end all games in the levels of interaction it gives the player,the freedom of choice and a certain paranoia that nothing is as it seems,this is the best game ever,the birth of a new genre of games mixing stealth,role-playing and first person shooters also the new game of the year edition and deus ex on the ps2 are beng released very soon so that should keep your adrenaline levels high untill the almighty DEUS EX 2....
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Summary: Best all around game I've found
Review: I'm not sure where to start...You can approach missions different ways, from being a savvy, stealthy agent to being a head-on firefight warrior. You can interact with all the characters along the way, sometimes gaining needed knowledge only after the 3rd time you initiate conversation. There are points in the game where you have to make choices...Trust your brother, or your agency. Rule the world, or destroy technology and send everyone back to the stone ages. And the game relates to real world history, real-world places. I've never played a game through more than once, but I did for this game several times. And I found new things each time I played. I enjoyed Doom, Duke Nukem, Quake, Red Faction (recently), but none of them measure up to Deus Ex.
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Summary: Best game I have ever played!
Review: When I bought this game I was not sure exactly what to expect.
Wow, I still cannot stop playing this game. Why? Well for one
thing, you can do just about anything that you want to.
Second it seems vary realistic for a future type game. Third
this game is fun fun fun! It is not just a 3D shooter or a
problem solver only. Yes there are puzzles to figure out but
common sense will work ok. Like I said, this is the best game I
have ever played and I play a lot of them. Buy It!
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