![]() Now you know why I spent my entire time on the Service Team saying “I feel more like a detective than a software engineer”. Of course, JC doesn’t have a monopoly on epic lines, not by a long shot. I love this line because my vision IS augmented - by spectacles. … but in this case, I will not hold that against it. The world of Deus Ex isn’t just the world of today with a few sci-fi bells and whistles, it’s a real place with its own tattered history.Įven the only tangentially-related conversations are absolutely stellar throughout - you can discuss philosophy with bartenders, politics with terrorists and trade secrets with bums as you investigate, sneak or shoot your way through gloomy cities and pristine secret labs alike.Īll Deus Ex is missing is a romance sub-plot. Beyond the spoken words (amusing and otherwise), newspapers, e-mails and books conspire to give a tremendous sense of place - I particularly love finding a newspaper article about the deteriorating state of the outside world while deep beneath the waves in the OceanLab. ![]() ![]() The writing is, of course, absolutely stellar, with reams and reams of JC Denton one-liners, from the spectacular “My vision is augmented”, to the unintentionally hilarious “A bomb!” and the infamous “What a shame”. We can’t go into spoilers here, but suffice to say the game is like an onion, each mission peeling back a few more layers to get to the true plot at its heart. I’m a sucker for conspiracy theories so the multi-layered storyline of Deus Ex is a strong selling point. I am totally going to try and use this as a pick-up line. They only get popped if they appear too far away to dispatch safely, when the sniper rifle takes over my hands. However, I like to tranquilise the NSF troops as much as possible because SPOILERS. Obviously you don’t have to use the GEP gun on the bots, it works just as well on people. (If you have a pristine, factory sealed boxed Deus Ex GOTYE to sell me, I am yours forever and have all my money.) Stealth is tough to maintain, but you will be rewarded with additional overheard conversations. It was at least a couple years after that before I actually got the game for real, which is why I’ve got this shitty Sold Out Software classics-range version and not a proper GOTYE box and soundtrack CD. The demo comprises Liberty Island alone, so I know that level best of all. I didn’t understand why everyone went berserk for quite some time… After getting over that hurdle, though, I racked up a gigabyte of saved games, playing it over and over and over and over again. The first time I played the demo of Deus Ex, I kept using the GEP Gun on the UNATCO bot patrolling on the dock, assuming it was the terrorists’ bot that Paul mentions. … that “non-lethal takedown” jig is a lot harder when getting up close with the prod risks a quick bullet to the head. The next opportunity to get a GEP Gun is in La Guardia, after you’ve had to wade through hordes of security bots. I made it worse by refusing the GEP Gun from Paul - I took the minicrossbow. (On the flip-side, though, enemies seem to drop from the tranquilisers quicker too.) Realistic mode is when you really need to be up on your stealth, because a head-on attack is basically impossible. Realistic mode is when you can only take one or two shots to any particular body-part before it falls off. None of that ever diminishes the state of rapture it induces in me.Įven so, I’ve never played it on Realistic mode. Rememberance is important, actually - I know pretty much every nuance of every level inside out. I have to say, I’ve played Deus Ex more times than I can remember. I doubt you’ll agree with me, but that’s what blogs are for, right? I guess it’s about time we really went into why Deus Ex is actually the best game of all time. You know, for all the times I’ve mentioned Deus Ex - how it shaped me, and still shapes me, and provides a baseline against which all things are judged - I’ve never actually blogged it properly.
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