Deus Ex

Deus Ex

• 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.

Deus Ex

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!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

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.

DEUS EX COMPLETE

DEUS EX COMPLETE

Deus Ex is one of the most influential games of all time. A mix of RPG and FPS elements that has often been imitated, but never bettered, no game allows the user a greater freedom to play their own way. Deus Ex Complete sees both games in the ground-breaking collection – Deus Ex and Deus Ex Invisible War – brought together. Experience two of the greatest games ever in one stunning package. “A great experience that’s a blast from the past and a taster for things to come… Great mix of role playing and combat” (Total PC Gaming 8/10) “At its best, Deus Ex Invisible War takes you closer to the idea of pure, unrestrained player expression than anything else. Most games state ‘This is what you must do.’ Invisible War asks ‘What do you want to do?’” – PC Gamer, Game of the Month *Deus Ex – PC Gamer 95% *Deus Ex Invisible War – PC Gamer 92% System requirements *Processor: Pentium 1.5GHz (minimum); Pentium 2.5GHz (recommended) *OS: Windows XP/Vista/7. DirectX 9.0c *Memory: 256MB RAM (minimum); 512MB (recommended) *Video card: Supported chipsets ATi Radeon 8500, Radeon 9 series (9000, 9200, 9600, 9800); NVIDIA GeForce 3Ti series, GeForce 4Ti series, GeForce FX series. MX not supported. *Sound card: DirectX 9.0b compatible *Other: 2.5GB hard drive space required; DVD-ROM drive required

Video

A tips-driven, in-depth look at Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Learn how to best approach situations using stealth, combat, social and hacking gameplay, benefits to using augmentations, story overview and key characters you, as Adam Jensen, will encounter. The truth will change you. PC | PS3 | X360 26th August 2011
Video Rating: 4 / 5

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