Deus Ex™ GOTY Edition

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.

This game is GREAT!! It is about 22 Hours long. The Campaign is great. You play As JC Denton. At the beginning you are a Agent for a organisation to stop terrorism and supply a vaccine for a plague called the "Black Death". Later in the game theres twist and turns in the story. You have to play this game, its not even that expensive.

Put on a trenchcoat and fight some conspiracies. Get experience and level up abilities. Will you pick rifles or computers? Don't pick swimming because it's fairly useless. It's a shooter and a role-playing game. The levels are ugly and everyone looks the same. We're not the same Ion Storm that made Daikatana. Our games are good and they stay on schedule. We made a sequel that no-one liked 'cos we dumbed it down too much 'cos we're thick.

I frequently cannot deselect my 10mm pistol, even if I completely unequip it. Sometimes, saving and loading will work to allow me to select something else, but most of the time I can't use anything but the pistol once it gets stuck. I started a new game and still had the inventory from my previous game. The pistol got stuck again. I started another new game and had the correct starting inventory, but couldn't get the pistol to go away. The pistol thing is making the game barely playable.

There is no other game better then this. This game started it all. Best game ever to play!!!!