Deus Ex™ GOTY Edition

Only one word can describe what this game is: MASTERPIECE. Just buy it, you wont be displeased in the slightest.

The graphics, oh the graphics! My how they have aged! However, remembering back to when it came out, Deus Ex was never really acclaimed for its graphics anyway. The story line, and incredible blend of FPS & RPG however, has really withstood the test of time well. Tremendous game, buy it!

Me Too.

I didn't play this one when it was released, i only got my hands on it a few months ago. Well, it is worth its price. But you better think twice before buying it. It does have a really moody atmosphere... a dark, depressing atmosphere. Sometimes it doesn't really match my mood, so it takes quite long for me to progress. Anyway, it is a great game, sometimes, you will be stuck in front of the screen for hours, other times you won't really like the ide of playing it.

Deus Ex is a game that I have always wanted to love. It is a game that appeals to nearly all of the design ideals that I want to see in a game. It's a game that promoted player choice. It's a game with detailed, open levels that encourage exploration. It combines elements of RPGs, stealth games, and shooters. It does all of these great things that I think, despite the fact that System Shock 2 did most of them first and better, have positively impacted the industry. Unfortunately, and here is why I give i the mid-range score you may be curious about, none of it works very well. The stealth is awful (in part because of the laughable AI). The shooting is painful, especially at the start where they thought that lining up a shot at a target that is literally inches away from you should take ten seconds. The nonlethal weapons are too scarce and too ineffective to really be worth using. The skill system is atrocious (and is one of the major reasons for the two former problems). It presents you with myriad options and as the description says, there is no "best" choice, but it's not because every option is viable, it's because none of them are actually good. You throw a gas grenade and the enemies in the area with just cough for a while. You hit a guard with a sleep dart and he will immediately turn and fire, while slowly taking non-lethal damage over almost ten seconds before falling down (I'm told head-shots are instantaneous, but the aiming system is so mediocre that I can't really verify if I have every managed one). It's all about freedom, and free it is, but in the end you're really just given the freedom to be a terrible secret agent in a different way. I have purchased this game several times in the hope that somehow I will be able to look past its major flaws as clearly its dedicated fan base has and enjoy it for what it does right, but in the end I end up thinking I should play one of the more competent modern executions of these ideas like Dishonored or Deus Ex 3.