Deus Ex™ GOTY Edition

Three main entrys came after this game and none could beat the King. This game is still the best sci fi dystopian FPS RPG ever made. The gripping story that takes you around the world chasing a governmental conspiracy, the fantastic soundtrack, the design of levels and characters, the community that grew around this game and made it so much better with mods, all top notch and unsurpassed untill today. It seems that game producers nowadays are lazy and prefer to bet on sure bets like remaking old games, rather than taking a dive into uncharted territory and inspirations to make original. We are facing a originality crisis and sometimes for the better, because this game deserves a propper AAA remake and a Movie. Even if they don't, the community will. It's not a modern game, but at least it has soul.

The plot is basically Alex Jones personified combined with cyberpunk, X-Files, and the height of the 90s black leather hacker imagery. This game has a simplified open world design, more like Pokemon with characters data dumping complex ideas, compact areas meant to depict entire cities, and an emotionally reserved protagonist who can believably slaughter everyone around him or defend every life, all while spouting idealogical theory. This is not so much a thinking man's game as an 18 year old's version of a thinking man's game. This was and is one of my favorite games simply because it lets you explore ideas, hear some wild conpsiracy theories which are just accurate enough to get you thinking, and filled with a streamlined story that keeps you moving. You will have plenty of chances to be a government man in black who kills without question or you can play a pacifist idealist. In terms of gamplay, this was one of the first FPS games to introduce the mechanism that every problem has multiple ways of solving them. Pro-tip, swimming is useless and blowing people up with the GEP gun means you can't loot the bodies.

The game is a classic and everyone will know about it by this point. It had its 25th birthday recently so I gave it a go after more than a decade. Gog claims its part of the "Preservation Program", but while it launches nicely, it's way too dark, which needs be fixed with community mods, and I read everywhere that I should update the map files because the GOTY got an older version back in the day. No idea if this is fixed in the GOG version or if I have to do this too. That's why I'm only giving 3 stars, my GOG Deus Ex Experience is not great. It seems the only change they made is to make gog launcher pop up when you launch the game.

Epic old school rpg in first person. More fun and better graphics than even more games made today.

Quite enjoyable, even for someone like myself who missed the game at launch only to come by it over a decade later, some elements of it are understandably dated, but the game also has elements no longer present in modern rpg's which makes it a still unique and very immersive game, i myself originally played the game to understand what everyone meant, the memes, the classical joke of every time someone mentions deus ex someone reinstalls it, i now understand and appreciate this old classic just as the people who admired and recommended it to me.