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| From: Aspyr Media
Category: Video Games
Buy New: $39.95
New (1) Used (9) from $18.08
Rating:  27 reviews
Sales Rank: 7771
Format: Cd-rom
Platform: Macintosh
ESRB: Mature
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: Standard
Age: 17 - 20 years
Operating System: Macintosh
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 8.3 x 1.8
Model: 10035
UPC: 618870100357
EAN: 0618870100357
ASIN: B00004TEY9
Release Date: July 27, 2000
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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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 levels 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. --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: - 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 conspirators exist. 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 22 more reviews...
 My Favorite Shoot-'em-up game December 9, 2005
Zoe Valentine (Oregon, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is an awesome game. It has really nice graphics, a pretty good story, and is just plain fun to play. It has a wide array of weapons you can use. (My favorite is the Assault Shotgun).
My only complaint is that there's not enough light. Its really dark in some places, impossible to see where you're going. Especially when you crawling in the ventilation systems. Even when you have you're light on, you can't see the walls right beside you, you can only see certain parts of the wall.
Overall, this is a great game. Especially when you are angry, and need an outlet. Don't go on your nearest rooftop with a shotgun, just play this game. J/k. I hope nobody goes on a rooftop with a shotgun. But you should definetly get this game.
Fun as Heck August 3, 2005
Mion Sonozaki (OR, USA)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Yes This game realy fun but it is kinda boring for Four reasons:
1: it's always night (so far it's still always night, i'm on level three)
2: to dark, hardley can see.
3: Your bio-Energey (Like a batterey) never recharges on it's own
4: your light never works all that great.
Here are the good things:
1: Fun
2: destroy NSF (Some bad guys) guys with a GEP gun (and I mean destroy)
3: Flame-thrower
4: $$$$$$$$$$$$$$ (collect cash)
5: Hack in to ATM's (Collect Cash this way)
6: HACKING
7: Guns
8: works on a OS 10 G4! (with classic)
And one more problem
Bad Language
I would recomend it for ages 14 up
My Favorite Game September 24, 2004
Joel Anderson
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is my favorite video game. I've had it for a couple years now, and I can still go back and play it again. There's always something I missed before, something I didn't explore, a different approach to a problem. The only real issue I have with the game is that the plot gets really stupid about two thirds of the way through the game. The levels are all brilliantly designed and laid out. The missions are all fun and chalenging, except the very last level which suffers from sucktion. There is a lot of character interaction with poor at best voice acting. Still this is my favorite game.
"Use za LAM" ~ Gunther Hermann.
Finally, a game that isn't afraid to be smarter than you are August 13, 2004
Kirk Huff
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is one of the best computer games ever, and the best single-character role playing game.
After the first few hours of playing Deus Ex, I was impressed the complexity of the combat system. The tactical maps reward exploration, the hit point system is body-location specific instead of general (so a critical blow against a head is much different from one against a leg), and there are so many ways to approach a probem that it makes the "multisolution" system of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic look like Tic Tac Toe. The options of long-range sniping, getting up close and personal with melee weapons or unleashing with automatic weapons and grenades also contribute to a great first person shooter experience.
After the first day, I was impressed with how the game went out of its way to set the mood of another world, the fact that if you wander into the women's restroom an NPC will make a sarcastic comment, and how almost every non-player character has something to say. I was particularly blown away by how experience is awarded not for killing things, but for "exploration bonuses", "progress awards" and "achieved objective awards". Too many games reward the entirely unrealistic activity of looking for danger, while in Deus Ex there is little point to looking for an unnecessary fight.
I moved the game from the "really good" to the "ridiculously good" column after it passed the 'toilet' and 'Asian languages' tests. Have you ever noticed that people in computer games almost never have to go the bathroom, and that even large buildings don't have any toilets? And also that games that have a lot of toilets, such as the Fallout series, tend to be really good role playing games? Deus Ex has a lot of restrooms, with toilets that you can flush. The second test is one that I've never actually seen in a game - the use of an actual Asian language rather than a bunch of scribbles. Having spent about 6 years of my life studying Japanese, the fact that most games don't even try to use a real writing system for signs supposedly set somewhere in Asia is really annoying. Deus Ex does in the chapter set in Hong Kong, and it is so well done that I was able to tell stalls in the market apart by their Chinese-language signs. Major respect due to the designers for their attention to this detail that everyone else ignores!
Finally, when NPCs began to give in-depth speeches on the nature of the relationships among society, the individual and government I decided that this game was off the charts. It is the rarest of computer games - a first-person shooter role playing game that builds its foundation on ideas. The graphics are a bit dated, but the graphics are not the reason to play this game. Unless you need your games to be non-stop explosions and gunfire, you need to get this game.
 Not the usual first-person kill everything game November 30, 2003
This game's plot is non-linear, which has been the catch-phrase of game manufacturers for the past several years. Considering this game came out in '98, it was probably one of, if not the, first games to actually make good on that promise. Deus Ex was 98's Game of the Year, and after playing it through 5 times, I'd categorize it in my top ten ever. The graphics aren't incredible (considered good in 98), but sufficient enough to help the plot of the game along. And what a plot it is. For you conspiracy fans, this will be right up your dark alley, especially if you've recently read "The Da Vinci Code". All the same world domination players are in this story. Well worth the time and money.
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