| Deus Ex | 
 enlarge | From: Eidos Interactive
Category: Video Games
List Price: $29.95
Buy New: $1.78
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Avg. Customer Rating:   (187 reviews)
Sales Rank: 8226
Format: Cd-rom
Language: English (Original Language)
Platforms: Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 95
ESRB: Mature
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: Standard
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Age: 17 - 20 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 10 x 8.8 x 2
Model: 2026034
UPC: 788687107112
EAN: 0788687107112
ASIN: B00003OPES
Release Date: June 23, 2000
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | A richly simulated world of unparalleled interactivity, engineered to react to your every action | | • | A globe-hopping, epic adventure. Span the world from New York to Paris to Hong Kong exploring locations recreated from actual maps, blueprints and photographs. | | • | Recreated from actual maps, blueprints and photographs. | | • | Total character interaction. Your relationship with scores of other characters affects the outcome of the game. | | • | The ability to create a compelling alter ego. Select and develop your own unique set of skills and nanotech augmentations, determine which weapons and objects you need to survive and solve problems. |
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Product Description
A globe-hopping, epic adventure. Travel the world from New York to Paris to Hong Kong exploring locations recreated from detailed maps, blueprints and photographs. The choices are yours and so are the consequences!
Amazon.com Review
Deus Ex combines so many of the elements found in other action-adventure titles that it's almost like getting several games for the price of one. You slip into the trench coat of J.C. Denton, an operative with the top secret UNATCO antiterrorist organization. Denton's body and mind have been augmented with nanotech implants that help him fight, think, and sneak his way through a completely interactive world filled with intrigue, conspiracies, and encounters with other characters. The plot is ripped straight out of a bad X-Files episode, but the decent cutscenes and complex mission environments kept us coming back for more. Deus Ex's real achievement is that players are free to complete missions as they see fit. As the game progresses you can upgrade your character with a variety of bioenhancements that dramatically impact gameplay. Focus on your combat skills and you'll be the Terminator by the end of the game. Upgrade your computer know-how and you'll be the equivalent of Data from Star Trek: TNG, busting into computer and security networks with ease. We were expecting a game that let us role-play a little, opting for a brute-force approach or one that required a little more stealth, but we had no idea the designers would do such a fine job of pulling it off. The experiences of both methods are unusual enough that we found ourselves revisiting level to try different tactics. The individual components of Deus Ex--like the targeting system, inventory controls, and enemy viewing radiuses--are a little clunky when viewed individually, but they converge into an overall game that is much greater than the sum of its parts. It's easy to compare the game to titles that obviously influenced it (Thief, System Shock, and Rainbow Six immediately come to mind), but Deus Ex really stands on its own as a unique title that should appeal equally to action games, adventure lovers, and role-playing fanatics. It's just too bad players without a Voodoo card will have a hard time getting playable frame rates, since the game uses the Direct3D-unfriendly Unreal engine. --T. Byrl Baker Pros: - Several ways to complete each mission, and all are equally fun
- Game world is highly interactive, and exploration is rewarded
- Ability to tailor a character to match your gameplay style is a huge plus
Cons: - Doesn't run well on non-Voodoo video cards since the game is optimized for Glide 3-D rendering
- Most of the voice acting is bad
- Enemies aren't very smart
Amazon.com Product Description
The year is 2052 and the world is a dangerous and chaotic place. Terrorists operate openly, killing thousands; drugs, disease, and pollution kill even more. The world's economics are close to collapse, and the gap between the insanely wealthy and the desperately poor has grown to the size of the Grand Canyon. Worst of all, an ages-old conspiracy bent on world domination has decided that the time is right to emerge from the shadows and take control. No one believes the conspiracy exists--no one but you. In this thrilling role-playing adventure, you play the part of J.C. Denton, a powerful, nanotechnologically augmented antiterrorist agent. It's up to you to stop the conspirators from achieving their goals. But this world is full of lies and betrayal, a world where nothing is as it seems and entire nations can seemingly be turned against you at the push of a button. To succeed, you must travel the globe in a quest for knowledge, develop your character's nanotech augmentations and strengths as you see fit, build a network of allies to assist you, and determine when stealth and strategy are more important than action. And each time you think you've got the mystery solved, the game figured out, there's another, deeper mystery to be unraveled. You will never know whom to trust, who your friends are, who's in the conspiracy, and who's innocent. Maybe no one is.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 182 more reviews...
 Best game of all time July 9, 2008
I'll start off by saying that you need to get this game... I mean NEEED!
Deus Ex is one of the most innovative and prophetic (i agree with Brian eastin) games of all time, in one mission you are near a gas station, and if you look at the prices, sure enough $4.00, $4.10, $4.20. and this game was made 9 years ago
It takes RPG, fps, strategy, and plain genius into one package. This game was worth every single penny spent on it.
I still play this game, regardless of how many times i have been through the plot, excellent replay value.
on a scale of 1-10, deus ex is at least a 17.
Don't buy the sequel, Deus ex 2: invisible war. Deus Ex 3 is in production, but Deus ex is a game that can never be fully recreated.
All time great September 26, 2007
Mark my words, Deus Ex will go down as one of the best video games in history! Whoever owns the rights to this game should update it for 2007 - It would sell millions. I have played this game at least a dozen times, and every time there is a surprise. On the right system it's sequel is 4 and half stars. This game should be used as a model for any company making games - the games of today are an insult to anyone who is a serious gamer.
My Favorite Game of all time June 18, 2007
Deus Ex is the best game I have ever played. It is a combination RPG and first person action/adventure game with true freeform gameplay, scripting that changes depending on your actions, and multiple endings.
Highly recommended!
This really deserves 5 stars July 11, 2006
I do not have much to say about the game itself that has not been said in previous reviews, except, if you have not played this game and like FPS or RPG games at all - Stop what you are doing and obtain it somehow. This is truly a masterpiece in the realm of video games and anyone should have the privilege of enjoying this classic. It should average 5 stars here in Amazon, really. =)
Hacking codes, FOR GAME! January 5, 2006
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
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.
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