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Fantastic Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 11, 2008
Author: Amazon User

There have been a number of very good games over the years for PCs' but without a doubt this game is one of the best games period. It may well be THE best game. I know it's been out for years now but I just recently learned of it while cruising Amazon and happened to read the reviews.The graphics are slightly dated (still very good) but the game play and storyline are absolutely brilliant. I was actually sad to finish this game because I looked forward to the challenge after work in the evenings.This is truely a landmark game experience. If you have not played this game you are missing a classic.

A classic

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 28, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I remember playing this game so many years ago and thinking it was one of the most immersive games i ever played. The gameplay was great, sound was superb including the voice acting, and above all other aspects the storyline was incredible. The story touches on so many real topics including economics, society, philosophy, technology and religion, simply put the story is unlike any other game. Truly a great game. Play it if you missed it the first time around.

One of my

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 20, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Favorites. Great game play & story.
They don't makem like this any more except for maybe half life 2.

Excellence

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 31, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Easily one of the greatest games ever made. A fluent and compelling storyline, amazing weapons and features still impressive 7 years later, great action, and an overwhelming feeling that you can solve a problem in this game in any way that you want to. There's more than one way to do just about everything. 5 stars out of 5

An amazing,innovative and original game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 29, 2008
Author: Amazon User

So what is the fuss all about? Deus Ex was ahead of its time. It merged RPG elements into a First Person Shooter and allowed multple ways to finish every mission, which raised the reply value. I am actually upset because there aren't more games like this one. We see the same generic FPS formula redone over and over again. Companies can still learn from Deus Ex and they should. Deus Ex offers some very satisfying gameplay. Even though Deus Ex seems to be a FPS, it allows you to do things that you don't normally find in an FPS. You can hack computers, use lock picks on doors, and blow up doors. That is an example of how Deus Ex gives you multiples ways to accomplish an objective. The way you kill is also a factor. You can use melee weapons, pistols, heavy guns, and sniper weapons. You can actually increase you effectiveness with using these weapons by raising your experience level in them. This little tidbit makes the game quite addictive. The graphics have not aged well, but nonetheless, the superb gameplay should make you forget about that, even for the most shallow gamers today. So is it worth getting? YEAH!

Love FPS-RPGs?

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 13, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Deus Ex is a wonderful game. It was one of the first FPS-RPGs (First-Person Shooter / Role-Playing Game), allowing the user to add skill points in various attribute areas, such as weapons, first aid, the use of numerous protective equipment. Each open-style mission allows the user to find multiple entrance points to the target site, based on skill and play-style. The Choose-Your-Own-Adventure dialog also allows for a new set of choices for every replay.
The graphics are now dated, but it is a classic game.

If you like the style and gameplay of Deus Ex, you should also try Mass Effect.

Deus Ex GOTY

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 11, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Deus Ex has very often been called the greatest Role Playing Games ever created, and with good reason. Though the graphics are incredibly dated if you can see passed this there is fantastic gameplay, and intriguing plot and, suprisingly, interesting questions raised about human nature and political ideology.

The last may sound quite pompous but do not let this put you off. The game is a First Person Shooter and is filled with action. The detail in the game is astonishing. Many times I've decided to simply wander around and talk to other characters and investigate areas and found computers whose owners are having conversations about security, affairs or even mundane repairs. There is always something new to find each time you play.

And you will play this many times. While the game can take about 40-45 hours to complete (if you take your time) there are numerous choices to make which will affect how missions go, or how certain characters react to you. This level of detail allows you to complete goals in several different ways. You can choose to shoot it out, use stealth or simply buy your way in. And, in the odd occasion, you don't have to do a thing. You can just walk away.

You play as J.C. Denton, a UNATCO (United Nations Anti-Terrorist Coalition) agent. This group was formed after a terrorist attack in New York in which the Twin Towers fell and the Statue of Liberty was destroyed. Considering this game was made in the late 90s it is strange that the Towers are no longer in the skyline of 2054 New York.

The plot is full of twists which you really do not see coming. The critically acclaimed soundtrack, which comes with this edition on a separate CD, fits perfectly with the mood of each moment of the game. The only problem? The second CD which contains the level editor and soundtrack can be a pain to get working. Other than that, this is a great game; still better than most games on the market today and only a fraction of the price. Every PC gamer should have this.

Outstanding

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 19, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Deus Ex gives the player a LOT of control--there are tons of different weapons, weapon modifications, supplies, cybernetic augmentations that are upgrade-able, skills that are also upgrade-able, different items and routes to take advantage of. Roughly, your tactics fall into two categories--stealth and confrontation, but by combining various assets, there are often many approaches.

For instance, you can bypass a chokepoint by swimming underwater, using cloak to sneak past it, masking your approach by stacking large crates at key locations, unlocking ventilation ducts, disabling the security cameras and laser grids, walking on ledges and jumping off buildings, sniping from a distance, taking out the guards using silent darts, temporarily blinding them with gas grenades, or, if you've practically become a walking tank, by shooting explosives at them as your nano-augmentations absorb the damages. Your enemies may use different weapons, such as the sniper rifle, the flamethrower, and the plasma rifle. Your enemies may be immune to gas, flame, or bullets, may be augmented agents like yourself, or even transgenic creatures or space aliens. When you open fire, you may draw their attention even if you're cloaked. When you fire your stealth pistol, they would still hear the shots if they are close enough. You will have to consider the trade-offs as you budget your skill points, augmentation slots (minimizing toxic effects vs. carrying oxygen underwater, jumping higher and farther vs. running more quietly, being able to see a target's health points & LOS vs. being able to see through nearby walls, enhancing all augmentations vs. reducing their total battery consumptuion), and inventory space (a big rocket launcher vs. a smaller rifle with space for items such as biohazard suits and augmentation canisters).

The setting of the game is the 2050s. The powerful Bob Page has almost succeeded in merging with the machines and the computers, while at the same time tightening his control over the greater populace and thwarting intervention from informed individuals, such as the player's character JC Denton. The transition from mission to mission is smooth and natural as you become immersed in the story. Although the main objectives are fixed, your choice of optional secondary objectives often tweaks your situation in later missions. Exploration is rewarded with rare items and/or skill points. There are three ways to complete the game, each one reflecting a different faction and ideology, which may not be 100% appealing, but is nonetheless agreeable to some extent.

One drawback is the graphics, which at some point comes across as almost sloppy, but then again, the game is not nearly as taxing on memory, the CPU, and the graphics card as its peers.

Easily One of the Best Games Ever Made

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

First of all, why four stars?
Without giving a spoiler, there is a point in this game where you are given the illusion of a choice. You can go through all the motions of making the choice the game is designed for you to make and then decide not to. You can go back to the place where your choice path for this level was started in conversation and there is a conversation option that makes it seem like you actually have two options.
You do not have two options. You must make the choice the game is designed for you to make or your game will not continue.

In a game designed for you to make decisions that affect your future, I found this slightly, VERY SLIGHTLY disappointing. This and this alone is why this game in my opinion did not receive a perfect five star review.

The story in this game is vibrant, very engrossing and enjoyable to everyone whom I have ever introduced to it, bar none. Even people who did not enjoy first person shooters or people who disliked role-playing games enjoyed this game which incorporates aspects of both.

While still being a first-person shooter, you have complete control over the level of violence you use. You can use gas grenades, a baton, a stun prod and sedatives to take down your enemies and threats non-lethally if you so choose with very few exceptions (three that I counted). It is possible to play through this entire game with nearly no body count, and it is more challenging and fun often to attempt this.

You have control over the development of your main characters development (what abilities he gets, how powerful those abilities become) and his morality as well. Even now, as the game has become slightly dated, it is still one of the best games I've had the pleasure of playing.

This is one of the few game purchases that I've made with no regrets. I cannot recommend it enough to any type of player.

FOUR AND HALF STARS!!!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: October 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Dear gamers, estimated colleagues, just when I thought I wouldn't see anything better than Fallout, Diablo, and some strategies for PC , friend made me get Deus Ex. As I see, amazon offers used discs for cheaper price EVEN THEN SOLD OUT BRITISH EDITION, so GET IT!

Why would you get it? It is game from 2000. or so, graphics are much better today, you can play good online games like Guild Wars or World of Warcraft with buddies and then some...but!

Deus Ex is a game WITH A STORY: story is like fast paced Ludlum and Bourne's identity type of novel, which doesn't mean it's a copy.

Deus Ex is a game UNLINEAR: you can be a butcher who does what he is told, OR try to follow higher moral system of value and never take anything for granted or black and white. Choices decide how others interact.

Deus Ex is a game that can be HUMANE: why kill someone when you can just make them unconcious if you creep behind guy's back and whack him with a crowbar or baton?

Deus Ex is a game that has RPG elements: more you do, more points you get, and then you distribute them between different skills: you can make yourself computer and electronic hacker OR you can make flamethrowers, pistols and rifles your forte, if you are Rambo fan.

What? I didn't hype it enough? GO GET IT FOR 4 BUCKS YOU CAN't GO WRONG!!! I would even pay up to 40 bucks to get it although it is old and graphics is bad for today's PC best machines.

PS
Don't give up after level one, you NEED to spend time to learn how to play but later it becomes GREAT!!!
PPS
If I had to pick greatest game for PC since nineties, I guess I would have to pick some of Real Time or Turn strategies, Pirates! from 2002 by Sid Meyer, Diablo II, Fallout part one and maybe two and Deus Ex!

Best pure shooters would be Alice by American McGee and Clive Barker's Undying.

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SOME MINOR SPOILERS AND MUST READ ADVICES (AFTER COMPLETING GAME):
You have to chose between assault rifle and assault shotgun. I think shotgun is better so don't spend upgrades on rifle. Later, unfortunately, it's easier to get rifle ammo.

What you really need in the game are fast legs to run away so upgrade JCs body with leg implants.

Don't forget to install and upgrade recovery ability, it's useful to turn it on with F9 when you fight mechs or men in black.

Use rocket launcher , it opens all doors except infinite. SAVE rockets, lockpicks, bio cells and multitools and try to find nano key cartridges or codes for doors and stuff. I spent lotsa exp on hacking, in the beginning, then lockpicking and electronics.

YOU MUST have at least one level of heavy weapon and one level of rifle...

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