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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.

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.

Nice try, but horrible job.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 36
Date: August 09, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I was really excited when I first heard about it. But once I got it, that all changed. The control is difficult, the graphics are outdated, and the voices and music are horrible. Do yourself a favor and buy Unreal Tournament instead.

A very bad game.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 45
Date: September 06, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The game has the worst graphics ever, and in my opinion, Super Mario on Super Nintendo is better then this game! Please take my advice, please don't waste your money on this game. I can see that Eidos Interactive didn't spend much time on thinking what other gamers want, a game with good graphics, good gameplay, realistic gameplay and being able to actually kill an enemy.

One star, not that I got to play it......

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 13
Date: July 01, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Now taking into account most people have a more sensible system than I do, I have to say that this is so far a very disappointing product. I have a new Sony with an AMD Athlon processor, 1 Ghz and 128 meg of ram. I may need to install a Voodoo card to play this game, and I just might do that. I have an SiS graphics card which does not handle the game well at all. On using software rendering, I get the best result: smooth and precise with no jerking and instant updating. However, after several seconds the game always locks up. This game also has the longest loading times of any game I have ever played. This is a shame because it looks very promising. Perhaps I will post an updated review if I ever get to play the sodding thing.

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.

More Info Required

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 24 / 24
Date: June 27, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is the special Preview Version, aka retail packed demo. It only has 5 levels. The full game has 14. Buy that instead. These details should be posted here but unfortunately most jewel case games have no info listed at all, and most do not need it. This one of those rare cases where the detail is everything.

IT'S A DEMO!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 17 / 17
Date: July 18, 2003
Author: Amazon User

You would not believe my disappointment and pure wrath when I completed this "Special Limited Edition" CD-ROM of Deus-Ex and it said at the end, "In Stores Everywhere". It didn't specify at all that it was a freaki'n demo with only the first 5 levels! What a rip off!! If you are looking to purchase this awesome game and you notice a shrink-wrapped jewel case entitled "Special Limited Edition: Deus-Ex" on a store shelf leave it and look for "The Game of the Year Edition". It's apparently difficult to find now but it is worth it.

demo alert.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 12 / 12
Date: August 05, 2005
Author: Amazon User

this is an amazing game.
when i played the demo years ago, i was blown away with its gameplay mechanics, music and story.

so when i found a cheap version of deus ex on a shelf for ten bucks, i snatched it up and ran away, giggling like only a crazed fanboy would.

i blazed through the beginning (which was what the demo was)
and as the game and plot progressed, i was..

BLOWN AWAY
to realize that i'd only bought an EXTENDED DEMO of Deus Ex.

o the horror that i yelled when that little 'buy now' pane came up...

i now quest for the actual full verson of this amazing, amazing game.

if you want to collect every bitpiece of deus ex history, get this,
otherwise,
buy the real thing.

Not that great

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 13
Date: October 21, 2000
Author: Amazon User

First of all, let me say this game is good. So why do I only see 2 stars, you say? To begin, saving and loading times are insane. While if you're not playing on Glide, forget this game. You'll never run it and have fun. Also, the enemy is so stinkin' stupid. You can crawl in front of them, and they'll say something like,"I think I heard something. As long as you move behind something in a second or two, he'll think it was nothing and move along. You were right in front of him, for crying out loud! I don't want to give it away, but the storyline is great. That's about the only good thing this game has to offer. Voice acting is hideous. JC Denton, which is you, is just a monotone scratchy voice act. It stinks! So much cool stuff is being thrown at you and the voices that do it are so boring they're going to sound like your boss or teacher, no lies. Bottom Line: Get this if you like RPGs or FPS but don't mind slowdowns.

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