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My Favorite Shoot-'em-up game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 09, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is an awesome game. It has really nice graphics, a pretty good story, and is just plain fun to play. It has a wide array of weapons you can use. (My favorite is the Assault Shotgun).

My only complaint is that there's not enough light. Its really dark in some places, impossible to see where you're going. Especially when you crawling in the ventilation systems. Even when you have you're light on, you can't see the walls right beside you, you can only see certain parts of the wall.

Overall, this is a great game. Especially when you are angry, and need an outlet. Don't go on your nearest rooftop with a shotgun, just play this game. J/k. I hope nobody goes on a rooftop with a shotgun. But you should definetly get this game.

Fun as Heck

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: August 03, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Yes This game realy fun but it is kinda boring for Four reasons:
1: it's always night (so far it's still always night, i'm on level three)
2: to dark, hardley can see.
3: Your bio-Energey (Like a batterey) never recharges on it's own
4: your light never works all that great.
Here are the good things:
1: Fun
2: destroy NSF (Some bad guys) guys with a GEP gun (and I mean destroy)
3: Flame-thrower
4: $$$$$$$$$$$$$$ (collect cash)
5: Hack in to ATM's (Collect Cash this way)
6: HACKING
7: Guns
8: works on a OS 10 G4! (with classic)
And one more problem
Bad Language
I would recomend it for ages 14 up

My Favorite Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: September 24, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is my favorite video game. I've had it for a couple years now, and I can still go back and play it again. There's always something I missed before, something I didn't explore, a different approach to a problem. The only real issue I have with the game is that the plot gets really stupid about two thirds of the way through the game. The levels are all brilliantly designed and laid out. The missions are all fun and chalenging, except the very last level which suffers from sucktion. There is a lot of character interaction with poor at best voice acting. Still this is my favorite game.

"Use za LAM" ~ Gunther Hermann.

Finally, a game that isn't afraid to be smarter than you are

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: August 13, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is one of the best computer games ever, and the best single-character role playing game.

After the first few hours of playing Deus Ex, I was impressed the complexity of the combat system. The tactical maps reward exploration, the hit point system is body-location specific instead of general (so a critical blow against a head is much different from one against a leg), and there are so many ways to approach a probem that it makes the "multisolution" system of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic look like Tic Tac Toe. The options of long-range sniping, getting up close and personal with melee weapons or unleashing with automatic weapons and grenades also contribute to a great first person shooter experience.

After the first day, I was impressed with how the game went out of its way to set the mood of another world, the fact that if you wander into the women's restroom an NPC will make a sarcastic comment, and how almost every non-player character has something to say. I was particularly blown away by how experience is awarded not for killing things, but for "exploration bonuses", "progress awards" and "achieved objective awards". Too many games reward the entirely unrealistic activity of looking for danger, while in Deus Ex there is little point to looking for an unnecessary fight.

I moved the game from the "really good" to the "ridiculously good" column after it passed the 'toilet' and 'Asian languages' tests. Have you ever noticed that people in computer games almost never have to go the bathroom, and that even large buildings don't have any toilets? And also that games that have a lot of toilets, such as the Fallout series, tend to be really good role playing games? Deus Ex has a lot of restrooms, with toilets that you can flush. The second test is one that I've never actually seen in a game - the use of an actual Asian language rather than a bunch of scribbles. Having spent about 6 years of my life studying Japanese, the fact that most games don't even try to use a real writing system for signs supposedly set somewhere in Asia is really annoying. Deus Ex does in the chapter set in Hong Kong, and it is so well done that I was able to tell stalls in the market apart by their Chinese-language signs. Major respect due to the designers for their attention to this detail that everyone else ignores!

Finally, when NPCs began to give in-depth speeches on the nature of the relationships among society, the individual and government I decided that this game was off the charts. It is the rarest of computer games - a first-person shooter role playing game that builds its foundation on ideas. The graphics are a bit dated, but the graphics are not the reason to play this game. Unless you need your games to be non-stop explosions and gunfire, you need to get this game.

Not the usual first-person kill everything game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 30, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game's plot is non-linear, which has been the catch-phrase of game manufacturers for the past several years. Considering this game came out in '98, it was probably one of, if not the, first games to actually make good on that promise. Deus Ex was 98's Game of the Year, and after playing it through 5 times, I'd categorize it in my top ten ever. The graphics aren't incredible (considered good in 98), but sufficient enough to help the plot of the game along. And what a plot it is. For you conspiracy fans, this will be right up your dark alley, especially if you've recently read "The Da Vinci Code". All the same world domination players are in this story. Well worth the time and money.

Amazing

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 15, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Previous reviewers have done a fine job describing the game in detail so I'll just add my two cents: This was one of the best games I have ever played. And for the price, nothing comes close! Great graphics, great soundtrack, great cut scenes, lots of ways to play each level. And it never got boring.

My girlfriend hated this game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 18, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I got many hours of gameplay, especially during the late nights when I should be spending the time with my girlfriend. This excellent game lets you play which ever style you prefer, whether it be the stealthy spy or the kill-them-all-and-let-God-sort-them-out Rambo.

Right-wing story, good game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 12
Date: June 03, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Deus Ex, as anyone will tell you, is a hard but enjoyable game that takes a lot of patience. No complaints there. I was loving this game until the story line unfolds. It seems that there is a UN conspiracy to kill all ordinary Americans. Hmmmm... a plot worthy of a Nevadan isolationist loon. It gets worse as you play. If you can stomach it, buy the game, but be warned.

no excuse

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: March 20, 2002
Author: Amazon User

much has been written about the character of this game and is not necessary to repeat. however, once past the rather tedious training, this game grabs you and holds on so tightly that you neither eat nor sleep (it rivals diablo in this respect); the story and play are that good. i have played it four times in a year and a half, the last on realistic difficulty, and it never loses its appeal. i have gotten to experiment with all the skills and all the augs, and i pick up nuances each time. the mac edition was available almost simultaneously with the windows. since this is the best game ever for mac (maybe windows, too) there is no excuse for its not being at the top of the sales, even at this late date. note that NOLF still is, and DEx came out at the same time, and the latter is a better game. if you want to see DEx II for mac, better get all your mac friends to buy #1.

What a great game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: December 29, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Deus Ex is a very difficult game to classify, judging by the shoot-em-up feel of the first mission (which takes place on a destroyed Statue of Liberty, very poignant after 9/11) you would think its an FPS, but the game is much deeper and includes areas where puzle-solving, free exploration and stealth are key.

The graphics are perhaps the weakest point of Deus Ex, the game relies on the somewhat dated Unreal engine, so many of the huge scenes seem a bit pixelated. However, the developers do their best to make the scenery look real, as a former resident of New York I recognized Battery Park, Castle Clinton, Liberty Island etc. and they seemed remarkably accurate. The building scenes (UNATCO HQ, the MJ12 secret lab, etc.) are also very well done and realistic.

The plot of this game is simply the best written and most enthralling of any videogame I have ever played. I won't describe it in detail except to say that after a couple of days I had the following epipheny: "Deus Ex" was not pronounced "dooze ex" but "day oos ex" and was short for the literary term Deus Ex Machina, Latin for "God from the Machine" Also note that the main character's initials are JC and his brothers name is Paul. The plot is very deep, takes many twists and turns and despite its improbabillity it has a way of suspending your disbelief.

In conclusion Deus Ex is simply awesome, but only play it if you have a couple of weeks to blow on a videogame, 'cause this one is seriously addictive.

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