Deus Ex Review

By Rob Fahey Published 1 August, 2000

First person RPG reviewed

Version tested: PC

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Rob Fahey is a former editor of GamesIndustry.biz who spent several years living in Japan and probably still has a mint condition Dreamcast Samba de Amigo set.

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Comments (15) Latest comment 2 years ago

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  • Errol #1 10 years ago

    This review was spot on.

  • FWB #2 10 years ago

    I was actually checking this out the other day and debating whether to rise it from the dead. I just loaded it up again to give it another whirl. Damn fine game, definately one of the best out there. Even the graphics stand up proudly by today's standards. I can't wait for Deus Ex 2.

  • Blerk #3 10 years ago

    Are we getting a review of the PS2 version any time soon?

  • #4 10 years ago

    PS2 version is already out stateside.

  • Blerk #5 10 years ago

    Whoops! I thought it was out here too, but I see on the lists it's been put back. Again.

  • Gestalt #6 10 years ago

    No surprises there then. It took about four months after the US release for the PC version to finally reach Europe. ;)

  • #7 10 years ago

    I purchased mine from the US. I had finished the game by the time it actually went on sale in the uk.

  • Dirtbox #8 8 years ago

    Funny this got bumped again.

  • morf #9 8 years ago

    you suck big penis

  • Shivoa #10 8 years ago

    Corrent. It is an almost entirely different game type. Something quite a few interviews before the release alluded to but which has still got a lot of fans of the original very angry about.

    Personally I can see much I like in IW although it isn't a spiritual sucessor to DX.

  • yegon #11 8 years ago

    Played about half the PC version of IW, but could go no further due to random crashes. Wasn't a specs issue, I was actually getting reasonably good performance.

    I'm now torn - patch 1.2 is just out. Not sure if I should reinstall and play through it again, and risk being royally pissed off again if it starts crashing half way through, or just plum for the Xbox version on Friday. Hmm.

    From what I did play of IW, the best way to enjoy it is to completely forget its in anyway related to DX1 - dwell too much on the fact it is grossly inferior to the first game and you'll just end up being pissed off like I was initially.

    On the other hand, erase any memories you have of DX1, pretend its some new franchise called, I dont know, something cheesy like "Future City 1", and its a decent-ish, if very poorly optimised, game imo.

  • MikeD #12 8 years ago

    dumb is right freedumb :-)

    Because if you'd had played the game playing attention you'd have seen that none of your choices make any impact on the mayor plotpoints.

  • freedumb #13 6 years ago

    ?

  • Tehren #14 5 years ago

    OMFG DX FTFW. No typo was committed here. That’d be For The (intensifying four-letter fricative) Win. When I think of DX, words fail me. Like a chav chewing on The Canterbury Tales, I ain’t got much to say. Init. But I'll say this:

    I bought this game for a fiver. My mate Mark recently mail-ordered himself a bottle of Louis Roederer’s finest. That’d be Cristal to you & me. My meagre purchase bought me an exhilarating, thought-provoking FPS / RPG hybrid; a 3D elixir that made the left-click twitch and the frontal lobe itch. Mark got a bit pissed and an empty bottle, plus some orange foil.

    DX is a game, DX is art. Derivative? This is a disservice – DX might practice the sincerest form of flattery, but it transcends its ingredients. Augmentations, the UC, transhumanism – this is absolute bullet-proof science fiction. Plus, you get to shoot stuff.

    This game is smarter than your mate Simon, and tougher than your mate Dave. You owe it to yourself to experience DX. It's the motherfucking bomb.

  • loopy #15 2 years ago

    lol, couldn't have said it better myself Tehren. :)