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An excellent FPS/Role Playing game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 12 / 13
Date: June 18, 2000
Author: Amazon User

As a friend of mine put it, "this game will beat you up and take your lunch money." It's based on the Unreal engine (think UnrealTournament) and the graphics are just as smooth. It has a fairly intuitive interface and a nice plot line. But the real strength of this game is the role-playing slant that it has. By making certain choices in the game you customize your character to be what you want him to be. For example, if you feel like going in guns-a-blazing, grab the huge weapon. Like the Thief approach? Grab the silent crossbow and the lock picks. In addition, you can also augment certain skills such as strength, weapons skills, swimming, lock picking, computer skill, electronics, etc that help you along. Become better at shooting rifles and the sniper rifle won't kick as badly every time you shoot. Get better as bypassing computer security and you'll be able to do it faster and stay undetected longer. Bottom line? Get this game. It's worth it.

Awsome!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: June 18, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Deus Ex is the best first/third person shooter available. Along with almost total freedom, this game takes technology to the next level bye using smooth 3-D graphics. The weapons are based on futuristic ideas and blue-prints. Everybody looks for a game that doesn't stop you when you reach the perimeter of the level. Deus Ex is the game. You can go almost any where. ...

Great Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 19
Date: June 26, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This is gonna be one great game for Mac

Might be my game of the year

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 01, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Deus Ex might be my game of the year. It's an adventure RPG that actually allows you to role-play to some extent. It looks great and plays great. Its closest predecessors are System Shock 2 and Thief, two games the Macintosh community missed.

The missions are open-ended and large. You can explore huge detailed maps, finding the approach to your goals that suits your playing style. Want to sneak and use your silent crossbow loaded with tranq darts? Want to snipe from the rooftops? Or want to go in with assault rifle blazing? You can do all that and more. You can pick locks or blow doors off their hinges with bombs. Your choices affect how the NPCs react to you later in the game. Really!

I liked the NPCs in this game very much. There are a lot of them, moving around, and they often have a lot to say to you. Or you can listen in on their conversations with each other. Some aren't so relevant to the game's plot, but are fun anyway. Listen for two homeless men talking about sculpture...

How good is the Macintosh port? It's good. And what's more, the Macintosh version lagged the PC version by less than a month. Deus Ex is based on the Unreal Tournament engine, which helped make the port fast. Performance is great on my G4 with its Voodoo3 card, and should be acceptable on the ATI Rage cards that come standard in recent Macs. Anything with a G3 processor or better should be able to handle it.

Make sure you check Inside Mac Games or Aspyr's web site for game updates. There's one update already at the time I write this review.

FPS for SF fans!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 13 / 13
Date: August 12, 2000
Author: Amazon User

A friend, who clearly knows me pretty well, sent me a copy of this game. I've already returned the favor for a great friend of mine - it's the game we've been waiting for.

The plot is futuristic and 'cyber' - you're a near-future supersoldier, a first-generation nano-bio-augmented replacement for the U.N.'s squad of mechanically augmented black op "robocops." Think Robocop meets Gibson meets X-files, with shades of Heinlein and Delany (there's a reference to 'Ashton Clark') thrown in in the beautifully crafted world that is your context.

The complicated plot unfolds in real time as you progess through the game, and there is a bit of role-playing - choices you make affect how your game is going to go, to some extent at least. You can certainly affect how your character develops - is he going to be a LAW-toting grenade throwing gun thug a la Duke Nukem, or a slip-through-the-shadows backdoor hardware hacker? Choose your own adventure.

Gameplay is based on the Unreal engine, as noted. It's fair to mention that you need a bit of hardware to make this puppy run well. For the scenic parts (i.e. briefings at HQ), I use high detail on textures and objects, but for combat I have to turn the detail down to medium, or else aiming is jerky and the baddies blast me in between frames. I'm running a B&W G3 with the stock Rage 128 card and 128MB of RAM - the game requires disk VM turned on so that its partition can be 160 MB. I run it with most extensions off (it needs RAVE) and it's only hard-crashed me once, although it tends to leak memory at about the 8-hour mark, requiring a civilized reboot.

What else to say? Music is great and the game experience is totally immersive and great fun. The authors have the feel of the genre down perfectly. And having been on the NYC subway system too much lately, I had a bit of a thrill when (in-game) some young punk drug dealer mouthed off, then drew a pistol on me in the Battery Park station.

BLAM.

5 stars. Buy it now. Then set aside a little free time and break up with your significant other. You can always buy him/her a bunch of flowers, after you've solved it.

Excellent.. but..

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 10 / 10
Date: October 19, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game is fantastic, don't get me wrong. I rushed out to CompUSA and bought myself a copy as soon as i heard it was released. However-- (i won't get into praising it because that would just be repeating what is known..) the AI is .. moderate.. voice acting is horrid... stereotypes of hong kong are ... racist.. technical issues with equipment (payload, damage, etc) are almost silly.. being that an assault rifle does 1/5th of a pistol per cartridge, map sizes make memory requirements rediculous, and make the game lag when viewing a city street..

but on the upshot, it's a freakin' great game.. very fun. just make sure you have 256MB of real RAM, a decent video card (voodoo2 at the least) and a G3 processor.

I was too quick to judge this game is excellent

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 22, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I would like to withdrawl my last review as it was too hasty. Although this game severly taxes any new iMac it is an outstanding game.

The depth that non-player characters have and the abundance of choices to complete the missions is unlike any game I have ever played.

It combines the best of diffferent genres, role playing like D&D , first person like DOOM, and pure thinking like Zork.

I will buy every sequel to this game and a new computer to play it on if need be!

Hours of Fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: February 23, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Well, this is the second game I've gotten since my girlfriend let me play on her computer, I'm just gonna have to say that I'm having trouble getting to bed at night. The storyline is great, the Game gives you that Bladerunner, Terminator feeling. On the other hand I feel like my opinion is a little biased, because I'm just an infant with these games. I mean the last time I played a first person shooter, it was Quake. There are minor flaws with the game.They don't actually take away from the game play, but they can get pretty annoying after a while. Like mentioned before by others, the AI. They have got to be some of the most retarded guys I've ever shot with a 10mm. A few times it really got on my nerves to run around in circles trying to shoot them. Other than that, there's really not too much to complain about. I'm probably only about a 10th of the way through the game, but I know i'm gonna finish it through the end. For anyone pondering on getting the game, go ahead and get it. You'll have a good time. but what always make me wonder is that I never had anything to really complain about with Doom and Quake, they were basically perfect games, and even though I enjoy Deus Ex, I shouldn't even notice things I don't enjoy about the game, I should just be plain enjoying it.

It does not get better

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: February 27, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I read about the concept of Deus Ex in a Newsweek article and lamented not having a PC. When I found it for Mac, I flipped out and had to buy it. When I played it, it was sooooooo much cooler than I had imagined it would be. The game took a long time to load, but waiting for it was worth it. Awesome graphics, cool action, great interaction, etc.......but the best part of all was the storyline. It just got cooler and cooler. I would recommend this game to anybody.

GAME OF THE YEAR (PC GAMER)

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: March 11, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I really recommend you to buy this game. I beat this game only on easy buy it was so much fun!!!. Don't listen to anybody who says that enemy AI is unreal (I saw couple of those rewievs) but when I looked at their screenshots I understand that they cheated (they had a gun at place where you cannot get it yet anywhere exept cheating) and probably they were playing on EASY. OK. Try REALISTIC mode and they tell me about AI - ha??? Dead already??? This game is better then any other game that came out by now - music is beatuiful, grafics is awesome (but you REALLY need a 3D accelerator), story - I don't think it's close to other games or movies. And now you can play it multiplayer ONLINE with other guys by downloading multiplayer patch from internet (free). If all this don' t tell you to buy a game - donwload a demo (full first mission) and I'm sure you will buy it after you played it!!!

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