The game feels more like Fallout than Fallout 4. It's gritty, dark, and brutal. The difficulty curve is a bit much but I guess it's better than the weird power fantasy that's Fallout 4 - expect to die a lot. Almost too much. If I had a serious criticism about the difficulty, it's that it's going for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. levels of grittiness but the engine doesn't support that style of firefights (i.e. no leaning, cover's either all or nothing, etc). You won't find ammo often, forcing you to use melee, but the game engine's melee isn't good. That being said, the world-building is incredible, the map itself far more detailed and intersting than FO4's Boston and environs, and it feels more like a horror game. It's quite impressive. The game would be a 4/5 but for one nasty issue: it crashes constantly. I have a beast of a rig that never gets crash issues unless the game is broken somehow, so yea, this game needs an update. The framerate drops I've heard of I haven't seen yet, but the load times between indoor and outdoor areas leaves a lot fo be desired too. Again, I have a beast of a computer, so load times are non-existant for me most of the time, but this game? Over a minute, sometimes two, when loading areas. I feel like if Cyberpunk can have quick load times, so can this mod. Maybe I'm asking too much here and should just accept it. But yea, 4 out of 5, despite being annoyingly difficult, when it doesn't crash, 2 out of 5 because it does. This score should change once we have some updates. The thing DID just come out.
This was one of my favorite PC games ever. Props to GOG for getting EA to rerelease it, and updated to run on modern systems. The game is STILL a ton of fun, and honestly I haven't seen anything like it to date. The whole "each board is several sub-zones where actions in one affect the troop strength throughout the other sub-zones" is a trip. Game still looks pretty nice as well. If I had any criticisms of the game it is these two things: 1. It should have been longer. The game feels two stages too short (would have been nice to see a trainyard map to finally shut down those troop/supply trains). 2. The game is way too easy. You HAVE to play this game on the hardest difficulty for the enemies to be threatening. Wish there was a harder difficulty after that too, since hardest feels like the baseline normal. But these are minor gripes. The game is still exceptionally well done and a blast to play.
I still love the OG Deus Ex. Yes, the graphics are mad dated. But my GOD are those plots, sub-plots, shadow-plots-within-sub-plots, and character development top notch. It really raised the bar for videogames in many, many ways, but to this day (as in May 24th, 2020), it is STILL worth playing for the storyline. The gameplay is a bit dated, and the graphics are super-old, but even if you can't normally get past that, I would still recommend this game to you. It is one of the most well-written, interesting, and exciting plots in a videogame. Not even the Adam Jensen Deus Ex games can compare.
