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Stunning non-linear gameplay, leaves you wanting more.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: June 01, 2001
Author: Amazon User

At first, I didn't like the game because of how much I thought it was unrealistic, but when I gave it another shot, not only was it realistic, it was actually a very addicting game! Although, this game uses the dated Unreal engine, the graphics are still topnotch; the only downside is of the poor Direct3D coding, leaving you to use OpenGL as the API. Besides the graphics, the gameplay is the most important aspect. The game is non-linear, meaning it doesn't always go one way no matter what you do. In this game, what you do actually does outcome the ending of the game! An example, I walked into the ladies' bathroom. Usually if I would do this in any other game, nothing would happen, but afterwards the Boss told me that it is embarrasing to the company!

Throughout the game, you have many choices to pick from. Whether it is during a conversation or entering a building with high security, they all have their advantages and disadvantages. If you have a character that is more of a sneaker, rather than a killer, it would be best to stay out of the front entrance and climb through the air ducts. If you are a killer, but don't want too much trouble, you might as well take the back door. The game is all built on you own decisions, something that attracts many gaming audiences. Every hardcore gamer has to play this, it is truely a milestone in the gaming community.

There are many better games out there

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 17
Date: June 25, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This kind of game has been done to death. There is nothing original here, the graphics arent that great, the game play is sloppy and the cut scenes are less than impressive. Words of wisdom, save your money.

Great game, but for everyone?

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: December 17, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Deus Ex delivers a great storyline, stunning graphics, and some of the best character interaction in a title. Although the computer AI is not the best in the world, and there are a few minor "glitches" in the game, it is in my opinion, a good title worth buying. A word to the wise though, if you don't have one of the newest off-the-press video cards and a hefty processor, this game might not be for you. I personally have a Voodoo 5500 with a PIII and have no trouble running in the highest resolution. Although there are several options to help get the best framerates for your machine, it may or may not run 100% for you. Read the recommended specs and the editorial review above and you'll get a good idea about what you need. I have seen good framerates from a ATI card and a PII 400. It wasn't 800x600x32 and all the best details, but the game was playable. Aside from the high system requirements, this game is a must have for die-hard fans because of the great storyline. Also there is now a multiplayer support patch and the SDK has been released so look for new maps and all kinds of custom mods made by users in the future. Think of it as Unreal meets Half-Life.

Best game ever!!!!!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: December 03, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The second i saw this here in a magazine i thought of getting it and then after reading more about it i finally bought it and i thought it was very to start of with because this was the first time i had ever played a first-person shooter and when i got into it i couldn't stop playing it.
I have completed it four times and right now im going through for the fifth time using new strategies and exploring new places i had never been before, which shows you that even after so many times you can still be suprised by the amount of freedom in it such as taking multiple routes,completing sub-missions like going to kill a spy in a clinic disgised as a Journalist,being able to choose what your player looks like and what his abilities are such as rifles,pistols etc.
The storyline is ultimately compelling spanning across contries such as new york,hong kong,paris and even Vandenburg launch station.
The graphics in this game are really good and the character animation is top-notch.
overall this is a game to end all games in the levels of interaction it gives the player,the freedom of choice and a certain paranoia that nothing is as it seems,this is the best game ever,the birth of a new genre of games mixing stealth,role-playing and first person shooters also the new game of the year edition and deus ex on the ps2 are beng released very soon so that should keep your adrenaline levels high untill the almighty DEUS EX 2....

EIDOS' unethical marketing. Don't fall for the Deus Ex Scam.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 21
Date: July 02, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I read some reviews stating that Deus Ex was a great game. So I stopped at my local retail store to pick up a copy. The only copy they had was in a jewel case like one might expect to find shareware or other feature-limited garbage. But, it did not state anything to such effect on the packaging (most shareware titles do state that they are such somewhere, no matter how small the print). The fact that there was no boxed edition for sale at the store also suggested to me that this was the full edition as many games now come out in the sleeker packaging after they've enjoyed popularity in the bulky "look at me!" boxes.

It seemed that it was obviously the full product when I looked at the upper corner where in bright bold letters it stated "special limited edition!" and even had a "limited edition numbering" on the back, like you would have on the back of a true limited edition item, such as a signed lithograph from a gallary. Sounded lame, but as long as it contained the game, they can pump it as a "limited edition" all they want.

Only after wasting my cash and installing it at home did I see the "preview version" label on the top of the post-installation GUI. So then I did some research and found others had fallen into a similar scam with Deus Ex and EIDOS when they purchased the exact same product as me at othe retailers. It turns out that it's a limited edition alright. But, unlike the packaging very clearly promotes, it isn't the scarcity or uniqueness of the product that makes it limited. It's the product's functionality that is limited. If you want to get passed the first level, you'll have to dish out another $40 to buy the full version. I'm not sure about the majority of people, but if the company lied to me and took my money in one scam, how can I be assured they won't do the same (or something else very similar) with another product or stiff me when I think I'm buying the full version again?

All I can do is urge everyone to avoid this game and this company like the plague. We complain about the strong-arm tactics of villains like Microsoft, but we overlook the completely lack of ethics and seemingly deceptively illegal marketing ploys of smaller companies.

Spend your money on a better game from a better publisher.

Hacking codes, FOR GAME!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: January 05, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Well sorry to say i dont own this game but then i was a bit younger my grandfather's brother's realtives (cousins, duh!) came over with a laptop and they had a game i couldnt pronouce. I called it DAYS X, then i dicovered that thats exactly how you say it. Anyhow thats also when i was introduced (all government agents or what are you, i am not a hacker) to the valuable skill of hacking. so when i saw him go up to a comp it asked for a code. It was a terrorist comp i belive, but the hacking code was Crush the world or, crush the world, crushtheworld. but try altering it a bit, im not sure what it was exactly.

PLEASE READ BEFORE YOU BUY!!!!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 17
Date: December 15, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I enjoyed this game for a very short time at first I thought "wow FINALLY a shooter/thinker" it IS NOT A SHOOTER/THINKER!! the only thing there is to think about is the story (which is so good it boosted my rating from 1 star to 2)! to complete the levels just shoot its simple, but you also have to spend like 20 hours on one stage to survive in the next. YOU HAVE TO HAVE ALL THE ITEMS and that is the primary reason this game is not boaring, but slow as heck. Of course if you got the time and mabey the cheats/skill i imagine how cool Deus Ex will be to you, but if you dont remember *bad AI in the enimys *hours and hours and hours of serching for little tinny items that are sadly easily missed *no need to think in the levels just shoot no planning needed *dark graphics (hard to see sometimes) *for a shooter fan there arn't that many guns GOOD POINTS *best story in a long time (for a computor game) *ok control responce *thousands of charactors to interact with *lots of pop up things that give you many diffrent things to say/do with an item in conclution:If you have the money and thing it sounds cool then get it youll at lest find it mediocerly interesting (i hope) if you have any doubts play it at someone's house. WARNING THE DEMO IS MUCH BETTER THAN THE REAL GAME!!!!!!!!!

Deus Ex is not a good Machina!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 32
Date: July 27, 2000
Author: Amazon User

My take on the game as equaling or even bettering Half-Life and Opposing Force is this: Get real!

First of all, the game takes forever to load up each time you want to play it, and the same goes for saving anything -- which tells me that the programming team picked to write this game were definitely not the brightest bulbs in the box. I suppose it is hard to try and effect a good old cold war style brain drain from other more successful companies, like Sierra for instance. And Eidos simply did not get the bunch that were really on top of the gaming curve. Every gaming company wants to hire the best, if only to build an efficient footprint that will quickly get the game off the ground after launching it. But this game has to be at least worse for such transitions than even the more primitive games that came out six or eight years ago. And because DE requires at least a 333MHz system to drive it -- more like push it off a cliff -- makes it even more of a lame dog when it takes forever to transition itself into the next level of the game, in addition to the sluggish save and load times. This all forces one to then rate the level of sophistication of the software as being amateurish.

The control selection is also quite limited and cumbersome. Whereas in half life your right click mouse button and mouse wheel have a much more powerful range of control over objects, you don't get that here. Half-Life and Opposing Force also expertly solved the picking up of objects problem by simply running your character over the objects. Why can't we have that here? There is only one good thing I liked in this game, the ability of dropping objects. That's it.

The next irritating thing is that your character doesn't start off as a swift, efficient fighting machine. Instead you get a character that totters around at a fast crawl, like an old man, and is suffering from the DTs and various other attention deficit disorders when it comes to actually aiming a gun. To get the character tracking well, what you have to do is this: you are forced to acquire these proficiency modules and augmentation modules to make your weapons and feeble cyborg work well enough to fight a kindergartener. This lends the game an extra savory taste of tediousness from the word go.

There is simply also not the variety of interesting bad guys to shoot at. At least in Half-Life you get to shoot aliens and all sorts of cool critters that are sort of cute, funny and scary at the same time. Here it's just one dreary anonymous person after another. *yawnnnnn*

The ideological recurrent message is also illogical and lame. Here the character is given lots of killing weapons but then told by various liberal characters in the game to be a Pollyanna and only knock the enemy out, and not to kill them. Ridiculous! What a waste of time. We all realize just how contradictory management and policy is in a real government organization, but is it really an exciting environment to play in for a shoot-em-up game? Not really. And most free thinking individuals will not put up with working in a organization that contradicts itself and does not back up its players either. And it is hardly credible to think most gaming players playing this game consider themselves as anything other than free thinkers.

No, sadly DE simply does not track well in simulated or real time. It needs to go back to the debugging floor. I was hugely dissapointed in its performance, and really would like a full refund for this game.

Eidos, it's the 21st century!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 20
Date: March 10, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Well, I'd really like to play this game. But since Eidos is still developing games for last century's operating systems, I have been denied the pleasure. Games like Half Life and Diablo play quite nicely on NT and 2000 Professional (21st century operating systems). Check the date, Eidos, and get with it.

Solid,yet nothing special

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 7
Date: October 15, 2000
Author: Amazon User

The good points to this game are the way the storyline is played out. It is a good game with solid gameplay and if you are a first person shooter fan, I would say it is worth the money. The downsides are it uses the outdated "Unreal" game engine and I would have to say the graphics are unimpressive with a noticeable slowdown in framerates when alot of textures are displayed or when you look over "long" distances. The enemys seem to die easier hitting them with a crowbar than shooting them with a shotgun or rifle. I just run around half the time wacking away with my crowbar. Many times it takes 2 clips of ammo to put someone down. All in all, a good play with nothing great to offer.

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