Deus Ex

When the first deus ex game came out in 2000 it was described by many as the best game ever, and is still considered to be great by many. The way it spanned many genres and the depth of the story is almost unique. The second game, Invisible war dissapointed many. They saw it as having been dumbed down for the console market, but expetations were very high, and it wasn't a bad game.

So where did the title of this game come from? It is from the latin phrase 'Deus Ex Machina' - god from the machine, this was used to describe what often happened at the end of Greek plays. A machine would come down and sort out all the mess the humans had got themselves into during the play.

In Deus Ex any problem can be solved more than one way. If you enjoy being stealthy it is possible to play the whole game killing only a handfull of people. On the other hand you can shoot anything that moves you can produce piles of bodies, killing NCPs as well as enemies with a wide range of weapons from riot prods to sniper rifles to machine guns to GEP guns shooting explosives.

Another intresting part of the game is the Augmentations and skill points. Augs can be used to make you stronger, more deadly, give you better sight, resist toxins and many other things but running them uses bio-electrial energy which you will need to replenish. Another way of improving perfomance is to upgrade your skills with skill points which you earn by completing missions and allocate to the skills which suit you best.

Offical Deus Ex 1 Description

The future is here 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 they exist. No one but you.

In this thrilling roleplaying adventure you play the part of a powerful, nanotechnologically augmented anti-terrorist 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 strengths as you see fit, build a network of allies to assist you, 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 who to trust, who your friends are, who's in the conspiracy and who's innocent. Maybe no one is.

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