Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition

I'm thoroughly enjoying my play-through of this game. It's my first time playing any Deus Ex game, after being recommended it by my brother. It has such a nice charm to it, and a fun story. Plenty of great dialogue and Easter eggs. For a 25 year old game, it has held up very well. I recommend downloading the community mod that allows you to play with a modern resolution. My only knock would be that every environment is incredibly dark (even with max brightness), which can be hard for my eyes.

I got the game on spring sale for 89 cents, and it was worth every penny. At that price, you don't have much to lose trying it out. Would recommend to anyone looking for a retro, fun, story-driven experience.

You've got ten seconds to download it before I add you to the list of NSF casualties

Absolutely phenomenal game!

Other than an OK gun combat I have little to no complaints. The handcrafted levels are definitely the best part about the game, there is so much to explore, loot, interact with and discover. The variety of ways you can deal with the mission objectives combined with level design and exploration really feels like you are forging your own path.

The melee, non lethal and explosives combat is really good and fun to play with. I didn't bother with guns most of the time because melee always get the job done easily and only later in the game when you have put points and gotten the upgrades are the guns kinda good.

The story itself is nothing groundbreaking but the way it's presented through good voice acting, dialogues, atmosphere, sound design, world building, art style and the genuine sense of adventure and mystery makes it really captivating and fun experience.

Overall really impressed by this game. The game respects and rewards the time and attention that you give. Its not perfect and some aspects are definitely dated (like the enemy ai, gun combat and stereotypical voice acting for non american characters lmao) but its still a remarkable game overall even today (coming from a new player). The game can feel sprawling and intimidating at times but its that much more fun when you finally explore and conquer the level.

9.0/10
best level: Hong Kong

absolutely peak for it's time. the gameplay is definitely dated and it's very easy to get lost and confused, but it makes up for it with the amazing story and atmosphere. the voice acting is really good too, but some of the accents are borderline racist, generally just a problem with side NPC's though, everyone else is great, especially my boy JC. i personally never used a guide and was able to finish it with minimal issues and had most of my tools/ammo capped out (i mainly used the energy sword, one tapped gunther lmao)

btw, get the GEP gun at the start of the game, trust me, it's too good

Easily one of, if not, the best immersive sim I've ever played.
100% worth the effort to get it running.

By the way, Denton, stay out of the ladies restroom. That kind of activity embarasses the Agency more than it does you.

You can get yelled at for going in the ladies' room this is the best game ever

I can see why this is considered a gaming classic. A bit arcane at times (had to download the game to a flash drive to make saves) but worth pushing through to play.

Relavent topics and gameplay that has aged well.

I'm a guy who was born after 2000, so this game is older than I am, I've been going out of my way to play older games, partly out of curiosity and partly out of respect for the art. Deus Ex so far has been one of the easiest to acclimate too.

So for starters, the Gameplay and Graphics are older, (though for a quarter century old game actually still very good) but the level design itself is incredible, The maps were large and interesting but well designed enough that I rarely got lost. The combat was something that didn't quite gel with me, but I think that's on me not the game. I played on medium and it wasn't particularly hard, but both you and the enemies were just a few shots away from death until late game when you get upgraded Augs. This made me feel like a badass spy who cleared a room with one magazine of my pistol, or a jackass who was mowed down while trying to reload a gun I wasn't trained in behind cover. I think the only part of combat I actually disliked was how every boss in the game was laid out in just a few seconds (Shout out Gunther who I killed in two hits with a nanomachine lightsaber without him hitting me once.) Also movement was a bit of a pain but thats just Unreal 1 for you.


The characters were interesting even if the voice acting was inadvertently actually fucking hillarious, and the plot was super interesting to see as we are now almost closer to the in game date than the it's release. The Cyberpunk worries of the late 90's are a lot different than ours, the idea of the UN being a world controlling super power is absurd today but a real conspiracy back then. The Soundtrack is phenomenal, each city you go to, each sewer you crawl through having a rich distinct atmosphere that captures the genre near perfectly.

Game also ran exceptionally well with little problems with crashes, glitches, and issues with tabbing in and out. (I'm running Windows 10 so no promises for anything more advanced.)

I recommend it. As if you are someone reading this review their is a good chance you are around my age and are curious about one of the most famous games of all time. The jank was easy to push past and the story was interesting and fun, and i'll probably play the game again in 3-4 years.

Tldr?
Final rating is a 7.5/10. Gameplay holds up fairly well, gunplay being the only true detractor. While the story does most of the heavy lifting, following JC's never ending night is well worth doing if you have interest in the classic.

P.s pro tip lock picks are for chumps, take the GEP gun from Paul.

Took me a couple tries to get in to, but I strongly recommend giving it a try, it lives up to the hype

I played Deus Ex for the first time in 2025. No nostalgia googles, no fond childhood memories, and I had to install 3rd party software (Kentie's Mod ftw) just so I could see without using my robot eye-ball flashlights and draining my robo-juice. And yet. This is the first game where I finished the game and started a new game right after.

Goddamn this is a good game.

Play with kentie's launcher along with an updated renderer of your choice. The only 2 things you need for a modern vanilla experience. Try not to limit fps through the launcher, either use nvidia control panel or download RTSS (I guess this counts as 3 things) like I did and limit FPS at 120-200 depending on the refresh rate of your monitor.


One of the best games of all time, full stop. Its 1 dollar please buy it.

Classic story-based RPG. Better depth than the modern Deus Ex games.

Thanks, but no, First of all, I ended up installing a separate mod - kenties mod, so the game could work in full screen 2K mod. Thats fine. But the game itself is poorly preserved till nowadays; most of the time it was "where the hell should I go".
Map is A PICTURE FROM SATELLITE (seriously?). Alright, I took my chances and decided to go through it completely. HOWEVER, got stuck in Hong Kong pretty badly with Versalife, Dragon Tooth and overall instructions via goals that are vague as well. Console commands (thanks to GOD mode and LEGEND commands) made no interest for me to continue on with this game.

Those types of games are definitely a historical piece of exploration; back in 2000 I completely realized why it was so successful, but they require REMAKE. But please, do not waste your time on this and just move on.

Still feels very, very good to play. Fantastic level design, intricate and plausible levels, not just a random geometry. Game makes you use all of your tools and augmentations until the very end, which is great. Resources are pretty scarce so you always have to choose what to use and what to keep. Great soundtrack, good story. Overall, it is a game that just compels you to play, Warren Spector and Co knew their stuff very well, it is a classic for a reason.

Like I always do for these sorts of games, my first playthrough is 'non-lethal stealth'... and I had A LOT of fun doing it.

Of course, at the end it got a little tedious avoiding a certain endgame enemy, but I succeeded.

My next playthrough won't make Paul happy, but it promises to be just as fun.

Defintely recommend for FPS fans. Game has nice large maps to explore and I enjoy playing it.

Some games were a smash hit at the time of release, but are very clunky and thus not very playable today. Some games age well and become timeless classic. But this game is very clunky and yet it STILL manages to be one of the best games to date just because of how incredibly good it is.

There is so much stuff to do that you could make an updated graphics version and pass it as a next-gen title in 2025.

Deus Ex HR and MD were essentially dialed-down versions of this game's ideas and they still stand out among their contemporaries.

Such a great game. I would they would remaster it for today's gamer.

its like magic every thing is doable in this game i like it when i freestyle my action to reach my goals

It is a very good game, but oh my lord, the amount of issues and bugs are crazy

2025; the game is meaningful, since we live in a modern society living under rule of deceitful powers that ought not be. For a game made in 2000 it sure predicts alot of whats going on 25 years later.
One of the greatest ever made.

A very fun, thought provoking and prescient role-playing game that really does outshine games coming out today.
Combat can be approached and taken however way you want it to go. Nothing survives a rocket to the face, tranquilizer darts can knockout the shmucks that you first face but the G-men later on can be turned into paste with an energy sword. Doors can be opened, torn down with a crowbar, said energy sword or outright blown off their hinges with a rocket or grenade. You can throw objects at those foolish enough to be anywhere near you at terminal velocity, turning them into a shower of blood. Or if you have a conscience you may knock out guards by sneaking up behind them and give them the Thief blackjack treatment. You may also adopt a more traditional methodology and use the pistol, shotgun, assault rifle or sniper, all assorted with different ammunition types and attachments.

The skill system encourages both exploration to get as many points as possible per level, as well as multiple playthroughs to give each weapon type and its associated tactics a chance to shine.

As you progress the world reacts to the actions that you may or may not have taken. For a 25 year old game the NPCs got under my skin when they were peeved out that I didn’t do exactly as they had asked with their reprimands. Making me want to give the level another go to see what would be different.

There are many secret areas, and parts of the world that are completely unrelated to the main story, this is in spite of the limitations of the game, having to load individual maps. The developers crammed every corner and cranny chock full of things for the player to do, NPCs to interact with, basketballs to shoot into hoops, and so on and so forth.

I am a large fan of the graphics and principal design of the game. The character models have had an extraordinary amount of care put into them, no matter if it’s JC or a one off NPC. Enemies become more and more futuristic as the stakes are raised and the darkness of the future bares its teeth. Hong Kong’s vibrant neon alleys, Paris’ desolate and oppressed apartment blocks, Ellis Island, Hell’s Kitchen and LaGuardia airport resound a world oppressed by the technology that promised its freedom. This is all accompanied by a mellifluous soundtrack, which I will refrain from describing as to let you look forward to it.

The only shortcoming of the game is that there isn’t more of it. The sequel could not live up to the exalted status of the original, nor has any game within the same vein yet to have come close to it. Art is subjective but the art that is praised the most is the best. This is the video game equivalent of the Mona Lisa.
Play it now before the rest of this game’s predictions become true.

Un juego excelente tanto en jugabilidad como en narrativa, todo está perfectamente logrado. Lo único negativo es su sistema de apuntado arcaico, pero se le perdona por ser un título del año 2000.

although it is not open world, the world you can explore is huge. There is a big influence of your decisions in the development of the story and in the outcome. Try to wander about, explore, see all things there are to interact with. It is definitely worth playing from beginning to end.

Great, it's an exercise in avoiding combat. Stealth isn't straightforward, it actually requires that you learn patterns & explore, no vents every other room. Those that exist don't stick out & aren't linear like in Human Revolution. Quite the opposite, they use darkness & mazes to make the player work for big wins. You can throw objects or fire tranq darts to distract guards, everything's a tool.

88/100

An all-time classic that lives up to the hype

• An engaging narrative with very good pacing
  
• Great voice-acting
  
• A stealth focused shooting mechanic that will force you to take the tactical approach more often than not
  

• It is easy to avoid detection by enemy AI and the difficulty settings only determine how much damage you will take.
  I recommend playing on Realistic difficulty
  
[*]Some tinkering will be required for this game to work properly on modern hardware
I recommend the Kentie launcher https://kentie.net/article/dxguide/

Finally got to play this game for the first time and my god, such a good game. I love the immersive sim genre and always felt bad I had never played this before when I was exploring this genre. I did have to get the Kentie launcher and Dx10 fix to get it running smoothly and in full screen but that was super simple.

If the age of the game is holding you back from playing this. Trust! If you enjoy this genre, you will probably end up liking this game. I went through all 3 of the endings and think my playthrough was around 18 hours so not a super long game at all and I did explore the maps somewhat. I do wish you could level up your skills higher but just like Vampire Bloodlies, you have to pick what you really want to specialize in or me somewhat okay in most things. Can't wait to dive into the rest of this franchise!

100 Backlog Games of 2025 Challenge: 13/100

the game is about how the free market will worsen the lives of everyone who isn't rich, the main antagonist is a billionaire, the people who help/enlighten JC are rather apart of a left wing militia (NSF) or are racial minorities (i.e. Jaime Reyes, Leo Gold, Tracer Tong, etc.).

No idea why chuds think this game agrees with their ideology.

No need to read reviews, just go ahead and play it. Deus Ex isn’t just a game, it’s a labyrinth of choice, deception, and control, where every decision shapes a dystopian future close to our own. It’s a blend of AI, politics, and philosophy.

Should've called it Deus Ex: Game of the Millennium Edition

I really liked the shooting mechanic in this game. You have to stand still for the crosshair to shrink, and it's very satisfying to pop some headshots like that. it also becomes impossible to run and gun, because enemies can shoot much more accurately. I find it strange that no other (stealth) game seems to have copied this mechanic.

As many have said, there's lots of freedom in how you approach each situation. hack camera's and turn turrets against your enemies, turn off alarms and sneak past, use mines, snipe from a distance, crouch from behind and knife them, or just shoot a rocket to their face if you see no other way, or simply to blow up enemies for fun.

There's also loot everywhere, ammo, health, hacking tools, etc. that rewards exploration. The only negative is that the environment feels kinda empty. In that first mission with the statue of liberty, it's just a dark, flat green patch with some boxes and enemies here and there.

I was super excited that there was a mission in Hong Kong. But then a little disappointed, because nobody speaks Cantonese, except for those couple of guys in the hideout saying um goi jie guo, which is both misspelled and mispronounced. Some of the Chinese text on signboards is mirrored. What can you expect though, it was 2000 when this game came out.

Every time I start the game I always stick around to listen to the main theme. It really is that good. Fundamentally it's an epic futuristic song, but there's also some musical comedy in it. I mean, I only noticed after I listened to some covers, but the main melody seems to have a hole in it after the 5th note due to how soft it plays the next one, and a lot of phrases end in a very loud and high note like it's making fun of itself. It suits the character of the game very well. While the game deals with controversial real world issues, it also has some funny, maybe satirical moments in it.

This game really deserves a remake. Its scathing social critique is just as relevant today as it was back then.

cool old fashioned game. I think i needed a mod to get it to run better on windows 11 but I cannot recall.
Kind of like an RPG where your character gets better as the numbers go up so it feels like every playthrough could be quite different. Pretty tough though.

One of the greatest games of all time and my personal favorite. It's clunky and dated but you absolutely should play it. Just don't start with Revision for a first playthrough, it's well made but swathes of the game are virtually unrecognizable.

Deus Ex (2000) Review (8.5/10)
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Arguably being one of the most influential games of all time, Deus Ex manages to blend multiple genres seamlessly into one amazing package that's a must-play for fans of the immersive-sim genre.

[WARNING]

THIS GAME REQUIRES THE FOLLOWING PATCHES TO WORK ON MODERN MACHINES!!!

Kenties Launcher: https://kentie.net/article/dxguide/ (drag and drop into the system folder)
Direct3D10 Renderer: https://kentie.net/article/d3d10drv/ (drag and drop into the system folder)

(OPTIONAL)
Deus Ex Map Patch: https://www.dxm.be/navigator.php5?lang=en&content=202 (overwrite the maps folder in the root folder)

I'll be honest, it took me four tries to actually get far enough to enjoy this game. Lots of great reviews means nothing next to actually playing it. It's an older game that doesn't hold your hand, and I loved it! It took a while to get used to the controls, the inventory system, and the character progression, but once you get that down, it's a fun ride to go on.

Played this game as someone who has never played any of the games in the series. It is old and does show it's age in some places, but even playing it 25 years later completely new to it, it is still really fun.

As many others have said by now, you can approach each level in multiple different ways. If your skills aren't up to par in one area, you can beat the level another way with your build. I have heard people say the shooting isn't great, but I think it should be approached as an RPG first: if you have no levels in guns, you aren't going to shoot well with them. Saying that, the gunplay in this is unique to it and is not janky or aged out in my opinion.

The voice acting isn't great much of the time, but that doesn't detract from the game. The story is fun and the fact you can trivialize entire boss fights by being clever or getting information from other characters in the world makes the game feel like it reacts to you. There are characters I didn't save that I didn't know you could and ones I did save that many people didn't.

The overall feeling/atmosphere of the game is phenomenal. The soundtrack kicks ass and may be one of the strongest parts of the game. Other reviewers have mentioned it feels very Y2K and I think that's a positive here.

The only thing that really does detract from it is I had to run it with compatibility mods, but there's a zip of them you can get and it was very easy to install. Also, make sure you bind quicksave/quickload, I don't believe it saves after each level (and they tend to be longer anyway). For about 20-30 hours of gameplay in a playthrough, seven bucks (one on sale) is pretty cheap.

a piece of thousands of childhoods. every real gamer needs to play through this game. the graphics and controls are a bit outdated, but it doesn't matter at all. one of the greatest stories ever told. you should play it for the soundtrack alone.

Masterpiece of a first person RPG, one of the best games ever made. Lots of freedom in how you can approach pretty much any situation. You can go through missions however you want with all the different tools, skills, augmentations, and environmental setpieces available, and it just works. Absolutely incredible visuals and music that create an unforgettable atmosphere. Story is fantastic too with how detailed it is and how it explores various things like freedom, the consolidation and corruption of power, and trust. It's a one-of-a-kind experience.

Finally played this classic and man oh man It does live up to it's reputation.
I just loved the grim and dark, but also immersive atmosphere, from the first mission onward it's like you are really living in this world. The storyline itself is great and captivating but Deus Ex also does a perfect job at telling it's story through the levels you traverse, the graphics also play a great role at doing just that, they may be simple but they make the most of them, creating stunning and instantly believeable locations. The levels are so varied and have so many ways you can approach a goal, it's crazy. The OST is also one of the best I've heard in a videogame period. Only negative thing I could say is that, obviously, the game's old as hell. So, it does need some help to run on modern systems. Also,the ending to the game feels somewhat abrupt, the game has immense buildup and it all concludes in a logical way, it's just that the endings are like 20 seconds.But overall, fantastic game. 9,5/10

Deus Ex still stands the test of time, though not through its mechanical shine. This game has aged quite a bit and is a hurdle to jump through considering that I have only played modern immersive sim style games. Where Deus Ex stands head and shoulders above even modern games comes from the complete customization of JC Denton's kit and the shocking amount of detail in a 3D environment at the turn of the millennium. Not just that, but most of the environment is completely interactive in realistic ways, there is never one way to complete an objective. This is one of the cheekiest and most interesting games I have ever played.

I played the entire game (took about 27 hours with all endings) using the Revision Mod as a launcher. (I turned off all the extra stuff) Absolutely amazing game. Soundtrack is legendary, skill system makes sense and is balanced, guns are cool, explosives and stealth are fun, and story line is engaging. Would recommend to anyone. Just remember to always choose the GEP Gun

I mean it's alright like
Game is 25 years old, cannot ask too much i guess
Max resolution is 1600x900 or something like that.

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☐ Good
☐ Decent
☑ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☑ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☑ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☑ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---
☑ Floppy Disk
☐ Old Fashioned
☐ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☑ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☑ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☑ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☑ Average
☐ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☐ Worth the price
☑ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☑ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

---{ ? / 10 }---
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I am normally not into RPG FPS games, but my god this game is completely amazing, one of the best games I ever played, it's writting is amazing, it's gameplay is also amazing, it's just a stellar game.

It's Deus Ex
It's the GOAT
It's the greatest game ever that no one needs to buy because we essentially live in it

Also The Matrix and Inception are the last movies that really made me think

This game is clearly one of the greatest games of all time but I know you have heard that before.

Deus Ex's story is superb, it possess every conspiracy you could want or need, exposing you to the fun pulp theories like aliens and genetic modification and then hits you with the realist speech on the corporate consolidation of government power.

Don't let the outdated graphics the all around atmosphere is just as great thanks to the art direction, it's grimy, dirty and raw but also futuristic. New York is a complete cesspit where sleazy goons run rampant and there is a homeless person in every crevice but also robots and cyborgs casually amongst the filth. The moody techno music suits it perfectly.

Gameplay wise it's core is excellent, clunky a tad but that is to be expected and endured due to it's age.
It allows you to play in a multitude of ways from violent to stealthily, it especially rewards the gamers who can think critically.

The dialogue is all quotable and the voice acting is either competent or hammy making for a easily entertaining time.

The game Deus Ex is an 10/10 experience that is comically cheap, I bought while it was on sale for 0.97 CENTS!
You will however need to download fixes for it since it ships broken but many guides are around.

TLDR: I beg you to please buy Deus Ex it's just so amazing.

One of the best games ever created. I've always been fascinated by conspiracy theories, and Deus Ex's plot and atmosphere read like Alex Jones' personal fantasy of secret agents fighting the Deep State, complete with Men in Black, the Illuminati, Area 51, and long winded meditations on trade deals. That being said, many of the themes of Deus Ex end up being relevant to actual real world events in the 21st century (advanced AI programs, global pandemics, technocrats, etc). Sure, the game's gameplay is definitely dated, but I found myself barely noticing how dated it was with how immersive the game is.

player choice has a huge impact on story and mission content as you play. puts more modern rpg to shame

Often hailed as the perfect game, it's the world's greatest conspiracy simulator. Jokes aside, it's a joy to play and you owe it to yourself to play it.

Clunky, with dated graphics? Oh yes, it is.

It is also a masterpiece, the gold standard for first-person RPGs, and a masterclass in level design. Gameplay, story, worldbuilding... it set the bar so high, most games cannot even see it. The amazing soundtrack is a nice bonus.