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Accelerate THIS!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 33
Date: June 17, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I suppose this game would be great fun if only you have the accelerator that it requires. After I discovered that it wouldn't run on our very new, very high-tech PC, I tried to find the accelerator that it required, to no avail.

What on Earth are you guys talking about?

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 39
Date: November 26, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Well it was 4 years ago so I can forgive the bad graphics. But straight away I felt uncomfortable with the character motions. When you run forward you seem to bob up and down. Its bloody irritating. Motion should be smooth and fluid. Instead it feels slow and sticky. Then there's the appalling AI. I mean come on guys. I'm a C++ programmer and I could program better AI than that. The characters in the game are constantly running around in circles bumping into each other. Its pathetic. It looks ridiculous. One of the elements of this game is supposed to be stealth. You can sneak past you enemies. Damn right you can, because the AI is so poor that you can literally walk right toward them while they are staring right at you and they will not even see you until you get about 10 feet away from them. So long as you stay more than 10 feet from them they cannot see you even if you are in their direct line of sight. Is that realistic? The creators of this game are the same dudes who brought us System Shock 2. Well SS2 was infinitely better than this garbage and was better in every department, from motion, to AI, to gameplay, and even graphics, even though SS2 was earlier than this title.

Not what I was expecting

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 11
Date: November 28, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Well after reading the reviews here I thought this might be a great game that I somehow missed. Now first off for the budget price I paid I won't ramble too long and yes I do realize that the graphics are dated so enough about the obvious.
One thing that I did not know about and my major gripe with the game... It is absolutley linear in nature. Yes you can go all out guns or stealth around but the premise is that you get your mission and start at point A and go to point B. The mission ends then and there an you go back to headquarters for your next mission. AI is weak to say the least and stealthy approaches are laughable in how the computer handles it.
While it does offer you more approaches than say HL2 or other plain FPS games it still boils down to pure linear missions. Role playing amounts to leveling points in melee/small guns/large guns/lockpicking/electronics/etc. Nothing really special here and there is essentially no selling and/or buying items (a random walking npc will offer to sell 2 ammo clips here and there, plain vanilla stuff)
I do feel as though this was a great game in its time but understand that this is no futuristic Morrowind or KOTR.

Deus Excrement

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 15
Date: April 26, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I played this game a few months ago, and I never got into it. I'm not really into sci/fi games in the first place, and it didn't help that the storyline was a little [off] if existent at all.

The graphics were ok for its time and I enjoyed the idea of sneaking around guards, taking them out one by one, and the idea of hacking computers to get info and working the cameras(i'm a programmer what can I say). The sound and sound track lacked much to be desired.

I had to make myself play it sometimes, because I always have to finish what I start, before I can move on to another game. Half-Life sucked this game out into space down a black hole. The only reason I gave it 3 stars instead of 1 was the graphics and the unique gameplay.

After all is said and done it must have been a bad year for gamers for this to get a Game of the Year award.

Great game, if you can get it to work.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: May 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I saw the "compatible with xp" sticker so I did not forsee any problems. It took about a week of trying different install kernels, editing .ini files, mounting disk images, and various other things to try and install this in XP. Eventually I just had to install it on a win2000 machine and move all the folders to mine via flash thumb drive.

But if you can get it to install it is a great atmospheric game. A good mix between KOTOR and Perfect Dark.

great game, fun to play but...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 34
Date: August 19, 2003
Author: Amazon User

gosh those graphics are dated.

Eeeexcelent

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 14
Date: March 16, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The style of this game is by far one of the best I think I have ever played. I am a big fan of Half-Life, and Half-Life 2, but they don't have the choices that you can make in this game. In HL you go through and shoot anybody and everybody. In HL2, you have to shoot most people, and only on occasion do you not. In Deus Ex, you pick and chose. If you don't like the way that guy is looking at you, how about just knock him out? If you were supposed to kill him, go back and say you did. You can chose to act and do whatever you want. I have only played the demo, and for 2005, the graphics are extremely out-dated, but that is okay, because the game style makes up for it. Should the graphics be shaped up some, and the AI finally figures out where it is going for most of the time, then this would be the perfect game, and I could literally play this, and only this game, forever.

PRO's:
Free Reign Over Actions.
Excelent Modification Form. (closes in on the D20 system)
Excelent Story Line.
Easy-To-Accept Premises.

CON's:
Graphics make it hard to tell what is happening always.
AI doesn't know what it is doing sometimes.
Long Wait for Shooting. (could be sped up just slightly)
* Apparently the ending is a letdown, but I don't know.

Nothing too impressive about this game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 8
Date: September 30, 2007
Author: Amazon User

With all the great reviews this game had, I was looking forward to playing this. Maybe it's just me, but I had trouble finding anything that this game had that made it any different from any other first person shooters. It adds extra abilities or augmentations that you can use like enhancing your jump, improved aim, resilience, etc... All which of course take up your battery power to have these abilities. Now one complaint that I had about this though, is that one of the abilities you get is a flash light. It becomes handy at different points of the game, but why the He** does it take up just as much power as your other augments? For some reason, you only get about 2 minutes of light off the same battery that also gives you the strength to lift a crate that's 10X your weight.

This game offers nothing new to me that I haven't seen and I'm a little bit confused about what all the hype is, but if you like First person games then maybe you'll like this one. It's really cheap now do to it being an old game, so I say give it a try and see what you think.

Alieans, robots and Cyborgs... Oh my....

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: May 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

At the time it was visually stunning and Massivly open ended, with a weirds story line, a strange game style and a funky controle system, it actully managed to work...

then again I'm just weird like that...

Question

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 11
Date: June 19, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I just purchased a new computer and was interested in buying this game. Can anyone tell me if it will run on Windows XP. The system requirements suggest that it be used with Windows 95, 98, and ME...does this mean that XP cannot be used to play this game?

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