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Overview
Deus Ex. This has been one my all-time favourites, alongside Duke Nukem 3D. This game had an excellent storytelling in a game, before writers took off in video games. This game had been proved to be a hit when they released this in 2000, and had fixed Ion Storm's reputation, because Daikatana had already ruined the company's name, due to it having negative to mixed reviews.
Gameplay
This game is a typical late 90s FPS, merged with a role-playing game and the enormous maps to give the game a feel of a pseudo-open world game. Deus Ex is one of those games that has been repeatedly called an 'Immersive Sim', where player's actions determine the consequences. There are a lot of alternate routes in Deus Ex, if someone doesn't want to use a lock pick a door they could find an another way by finding the key of the door, or break open a window nearby to enter the room, and in combat, players could go a full on assault, or go with a stealth option by finding vents and sneaking behind enemies' and attacking them. With that, the combat also had a pacifist route with a crossbow, or a lethal route with a pistol. The difficulty of this game has been divided into 4 tiers with Easy, Normal, Hard and Realistic. This game, whether it be any difficulty has been said by a lot of players for being difficult in early levels. That is, because the starting skill points should be used in combat more rather than things that focus on skills that are not combat, so they could have a better starting by familiarising themselves with the system. Stealth should also be a vital thing early in the game, going all out against the enemies could prove to be a failure with the limited amount of weapons, and the fact that augmentations depends on how much the player has progressed within the game. Augmentations are a permanent quality-of-life enhancers that that tend to help players in many ways and also function as an additional skill that consumes bioelectrical energy. Another feature of Deus Ex was the atmosphere, it felt real compared to other FPSes or immersive sims like System Shock 2, that takes place in 22nd century, whereas Deus Ex compromised on it's setting during 2050s, to show a world of what the people during the turn of millenium thought about in the future, of course with some other additions like conspiracy theories and a desolate feeling of a cyberpunk game, with tremendous shades and hues of blue.
Final Notes
This game had definitely paved the way for better storytelling, as most of the games until the turn of the millenium were not so good, as no one found hiring writers in video games as a fundamental part, like it is nowadays. The sequel of Deus Ex, Invisible War was not very well received, unlike this one. But Human Revolution was proved to be an excellent reboot of this series, with that game being a prequel. The future of the Deus Ex franchise are somewhat in good hands due to the recent purchase of the IP from Square to Embracer Group, the same people who bought Duke Nukem 3D's company. Before getting this in Steam, I had played this game 3 times, (2 times Hard, 1 time Realistic). And every time I replayed this game I would always find something new. 10/10, this game is worth playing, and I'm sure there isn't something else that can even mimic the greatness of this game.