Deus Ex™ GOTY Edition

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 Graphics may be outdated, but if you are into old-school gaming you won't care anyway.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.

and still relevant these days, it aged like wine

It took me abit to get used to the gameplay but the moment it clicked during the first mission I fell in love with this game, thats not even including the incredible world and fantastic characters.