Deus Ex™ GOTY Edition

The update with renewed video is excellent. It's always a pleasure to unravel the conspiracies within conspiracies with the characaater of Paul Denton.

Everytime someone mentions Deus Ex somebody reinstalls is. Clunky but this is classic. If you can take the jank the game offers one the best stories there is.

Clearly this is my all-time favourite game. Probably the title I did the most playthroughs on over the years, stopped counting at 7. Loved the the story, the choices, music, characters, locations, gameplay, and the replayability. Only thing that did not age quite as well as the rest is the graphics, but you still can find some visual mods online to make it shine again. Wayyy better than Deus Ex Invisible War, and in some respects even beats 2011's Human Revolution, too.

Still my favourite from the franchise. Graphics may be outdated, but if you are into old-school gaming you won't care anyway. Everything else is just great and there are some awesome free Total Conversions as well to download from the net. I do still have more fun with this game than with many of the current game releases. The gameplay can be what you like: Pure action, thrilling stealth or just using your brain and conversation skills. You should be into dark sci-fi settings though.

Theres a reason this game is so widely acclaimed. I've played it through maybe 3x, first getting it back in 2001. The depth of the writing in the game with discoverable books and dialogue is top notch. Some occasionally unintentionally hilarious voice acting too. Great music. This game has great layers of cyber-punk, govt conspiracies, shadow conspiracies, bioengineering etc. They allow for different approaches to the same problem with some levels almost feeling open world as you explore the surroundings and try to discover how to accomplish your objectives. Cons might be clunky fighting FPS, but thats secondary to why the game shines. I still found it to be enjoyable to get into firefights. You can be strategic with gas grenades, LAMs, pepperspray, dragon's tooth... Brb gonna go play it again.