Deus Ex™ GOTY Edition

This games story has one of the most profound stories ever. This game has caused me to think philosophically about the topics such as AI, human freedom, and many others. This is a game with a lot of lore and much of it is very relevant in real life, even today. From a story, script, and idea standpoint this game was ahead of it's time. You play as JC Denton. A nano-augmented special agent killing machine that likes to tase people and throw basketballs at his boss (maybe that's just me). You start off attempting to recover a vaccine from a terrorist organization. But, eventually you'll uncover a complicated conspiracy that you, the messiah, will have to participate in so you can also stop it. The cyberpunk theme of this game gets inspiration (IMO) from Ghost in the Shell and Metal Gear Solid. It touches on some the points brought up in both of those game, but the main focus is on conspiracies and rumors based on real life. Organizations such as Majestic 12 and the Illuminati were (and probably are) still around. To bring to present day 2020, there is currently a COVID-19 pandemic, socioeconomic issues, protesting, and even some authoritarian acts by our own government. In Dues Ex, you have the Grey Death, economic depression, violent riots, rebel uprisings, and of course more extreme authoritarian acts by the very organization that JC works for. When you play this game and pay attention to the newspapers and what the general way society is in game, you'll get a little creeped out about how familiar it might be. Anyway, game mechanics are first-person shooter with options for lethal and non-lethal approach. Stealthy approach takes a bit longer, but you'll more likely stay alive that way. You gain skill points to upgrade your skills and augmentation upgrades to gain new abilities. It's a fun system to tinker with. Graphics are dated, but mods are there to fix this issue. IMO everyone should play this game at least once. Its that good and worth it. Get it now!

I am a huge RPG fan, and this game is both a RPG and something more. There's no class or role or good/bad system, you can be enything you want. I completed the game 3 times, and everytime as a different character, and everytime was like playing a different game. The gameplay was different, the story was different, the NPC responses were different. And everytime I had a lot of fun!

How could they? One of the best games I ever played (and replayed). The first time my computer was too slow so I had to play the stealth way picking enemies one by one. Hacking, invisibility, sniping and backstabbing were my companions until, in the later stages, I found the enemy soldiers were talking about being afraid of an invisible assassin. The second time I had a better computer and I choose the fighting path. Than I replayed it again taking different decisions. Every time I found something new. Buy and play it!

I bought this game full price when it first came out as a shrink wrap game. Over the years and many moves, I had lost it. Now that it is on GOG, I can reacquire it in a manner I know will work and not fill my system with problems. If someone were to ask me, "What are the best computer games you have ever played?" I would without so much as thinking rattle off, "Deus Ex and Fallout..." and then I would pause to consider the many hundreds of other games I have purchased over the years to see what might come in as a distant third. Deus Ex is that good of a game.

I think all is said already.