An undeniable classic. The gameplay and graphics may take some getting used to, but the sense of freedom when it comes to approaching how you tackle levels/missions and the actual story is really good. Ultimately, there's a reason the game's a classic.

However, be prepared for the RPG elements in case you were thinking it's a straight up shooter. Skills affect your accuracy with guns, plus you are able to build a character with different augmentations. So, it's not a straight shooter/stealth game, and again, it is pretty story heavy with conversations where you can choose responses and such, allowing you to shape the direction the story goes in.

The game has many unique things, but perhaps the biggest feature is the narrative. It merges all conspiracy theories and emerges with a solid, slowly developing story. In contrary to today's counterparts (including DE:HR) you CAN choose different paths to achive a given goal. Sneak, heavy gunning, hacking of computers and even talk your way is available. It is an RPG but also has a decent shooter mechanic, and interesting melee mechanic is also available later into the game and some classic adventure elements are present as well. Graphics were ok back then and may appear dated nowadays, but they can be overlooked.

First, this is an FPS with RPG elements not a RPG with a touch of FPS. This game is both linear and open. The mission happen in a linear way, no matter what you do you will have to go through each mission in order. But, how you get through the mission is very open to your play style. This game is fun but you choices just don't seem to have any weight, even if you have been killing your allies they will trust you until they are scripted not to.

If you are looking for an FPS with more depth than normal this game is great. If you are looking for a deep RPG than you might be a little disappointed.

A very old game but a great one... in a nutshell, FREEDOM. Freedom to make choices that do affect the storyline, freedom to complete missions a number of distinct ways, freedom freedom freedom. The NPCs have a wide range of comments, not just one or two, and they change depending on your actions. It blew me away when I entered the ladies restroom, was reprimanded by the secretary in there, then was reprimanded by my boss. That kind of attention to detail with lots of plot and many grey areas makes this game a cut above most these days. Mods are available to make the graphics a little more palatable. Well worth the considerable investment in time it will take to complete the game. If you can get past how dated it is technically, the experience is well worth it.

Great game!

You have amazing freedom, every kind of character you want to make is playable so the replay value is great. It also has a great story.

The graphics are old but not ugly, and the gameplay is really good.

So if you like RPGs with an FPS touch and lots of freedom and replayability, get this!

Let me start by start by saying that I did not even get interested in the Deus Ex universe until playing Human Revolution which sparked my interest into Deus Ex.I have to agree with this game being high on list of greatest PC games of all time.The game play is very well done you can truly go about every mission different ways 100% stealth no killing or guns blazing or a mixture also there are several differing routes in each mission so you have many ways to complete an objective very nice and non linear.The graphics to be honest are not really that bad when you consider that this game is a decade old everything looks quite good given the PC abilities of the time but for me game play is far more important than eye candy.

I would say that if you are a more through player and take your time you can get a good 24~30 hours of play time in a single Deus Ex run more if you go for 100% no killing.

If you enjoy creative games that allow you alot of freedom and think that story is an important part of a good game you really can not go wrong with Deus Ex.If you are stuck on high end pretty graphics then that is your loss because Deus Ex is far better a game than many more recent games that focus on eye candy but neglect story.

It's absolutely incredible how astonishing this game is, once you start it, it is very very hard to stop playing. For any situation you find yourself in, there's at least 3 or 4 ways of getting ou, there's a thousand secrets to find so it has great replayability. Also, every skill path is valid so the choice is always trully yours. Finally it is very challenging.

And even the music's great !

Amazing game! Neither of its elemenst are great, but it combines RPG and FPS beautifully. A little bit long for my liking and I have to admit I became bored of it at least two times even I didn't reach half-way! But it's an exceptional game, so I came back for more. Highly recommended!

While I love this game, I can't recommend it to anyone who has nausea problems with FPS games. I sometimes have problems where I get motion sick/nauseous when playing FPSs, but none to date has been worse than Deus Ex, and I can't figure out what is setting it off. None of the usual graphics tweaks have helped. If you have my problem, you may need to take a rain check on this one. Even though it's a great and venerable member of the genre, and deserving of it's laurels, it's not worth feeling ill.

Deus Ex is one of those immersive games that, despite its age, always seems to be able to rope you in. What makes Deus Ex so loved is how utterly open ended the game is. Do you want to go pure stealth? Go ahead. How about running in with guns blazing? That works too. Take it a step further and you can even beat the game without killing a single soul. It's the fact that you can approach missions is so many ways that makes the game a classic; even modern games nowadays that are touted as "open ended" fail to deliver the sheer number of ways Deus Ex can be beaten. Of course, as the game has aged, the graphics leave a lot to be desired. This is where some advantages of PC step in. If you want to pretty it up a bit, mods are widely available. It's why after all this time, Deus Ex, even now, holds up as one of the greatest games to be developed.

When i bought this game, it was on sale along with the sequel for only ten dollars, and i can safely, quickly, and correctly say that this was the best spend i have ever done in video game history. Going along with almost everyone who plays this game, i will say that this is one of the best action rpg games on the pc. Action lovers will love that this game has the opportunity to decide to go stealth throughout the missions, and try to sneak by many realistic AI characters. They will spot you if you are not sneaking around good, but if you are good at what you are doing, then you can get by levels with either not killing or killing as little as possible. Rpg lovers will love the opportunity to customize their character with certain augmentations that allow them access to certain things. The gameplay is phenomenal, but one technical complaint i have about this game is no auto save, but this is forgiven when you realize that with all the possibilities to beat a level, putting them in would be very hard.

Awesome game. I'm late into coming into this one. I've read so many reviews about it, but haven't purchased and played it until recently. Runs great on older systems, controls are great and the gameplay is fantastic. You can get upgrades, you can approach each mission in different ways and don't have to follow a linear path. Very happy with this, even though older game. Has a lot of depth.

Unlike most gamers, I was introduced to the Deus Ex franchise backwards -- I got many hours of enjoyment out of Deus Ex: Invisible War (the sequel, and an excellent game in its own right) for the original Xbox, so I knew that I would like the older game. I didn't know HOW much, though, until I started playing it. It's an incredible game that blends together seamlessly FPS elements with those from the RPG genre. The game controls very well, but more importantly, it gives players the options of crafting their own characters based on decisions made. Unlike in many games, how you play the game DOES impact the story and your options for advancing -- it's an intuitive system, and it works very well.

This is an old game, but despite GamersGate claiming it doesn't work with Win 7, I got it to work fine on my Windows 7 laptop without any real trouble.

Being a big fan of the Thief series I was a bit hesitant to try this game because I'm not a big fan of the Sci Fi genre.

But now I understand why lots of people said I should try it.

You can buy upgrades for your abilities and mostly you have multiple ways to solve a problem or even to advance the plot. You can play it like a 1st person shooter or sneaker, both have their merits.

So in a way it's better and more versatile than the Thief series even. I'm only half way through but the storyline is great as well.

It doesn't have the same immersion and atmosphere as the Thief games though but the music is good.

In the end I think I still prefer the Thief series (well 1 and 2 anyway) but this is a great game and I'd advise it to anyone that doesn't object to the outdated graphics.

The game is very similar to the layout to System Shock 2, indeed it is virtually identical in the mode of interaction: the same tricks of the password, the presence in abundance of PDAs (Personal Data Assistant), even some objects, like the mulitool, is the exact copy Game of Looking Glass Studios. Obviously those who have had the experience of System Shock 2 will be very comfortable in the action, on the contrary it is advisable for those who carry the fully newbie tutorial that, among other things, gives us useful bonus points at the beginning of real game. Also along the lines of SS2 will have the ability (of the grafts are now robotic nano-augmentation, which amplify some of our human faculties such as sight, strength, ability to run, hacking skills, etc..) During such missions will increase due gains and what we will find, or poking around in the bodies of the unfortunate duty

FUTURE COP

The setting is in a not too distant future, where you begin to see the first bionic men, with wires protruding from the skin and cameras for eyes. The world economy is near collapse, social classes are deeply divided between too rich or too poor, no middle ground. The value of life is really insignificant and a new drug could be the spark of chaos. In this context, it turns out, not even to say, the union of terrorists, known as NSF, with the aim of conquering the world economy by the drug, derived from a powerful chemical, known as "ambrosia". Our alter ego is an agent of UNATCO, a kind of special body well-organized and trained to counter terrorist actions. We've just come from the academy (tutorial) and waiting for us been a mission surprising rid the island of the Statue of Liberty in New York which then is nothing other than the headquarters dell'UNATCO same. Our supervisor is our twin brother (twin so that we confuse the meaning of the conversations in the scenes shot in the third person), but once we clear the entire hierarchical body of military training, especially knowing the highest top, the Manderly

As I mentioned at the beginning, during our missions we find ourselves in situations as diverse as people know, we'll use to get information about people or things related to our mission or not. We may even kill them to rob them, among other things, their attitude towards us is changing, if we approach them with a gun in his hand flee screaming, or, if armed attack us. Approaching in hand we can pretend nothing of normal people and talk with them. You'll also find a credit card at an ATM to use them (around the PDA will pin numbers and bank account), or if enough power to infiltrate the various groped hacking computer systems, it is quite funny, poking lived in the affairs of another person makes the game (the curiosity of a PC or a PDA which may contain codes or notes raises enormously important playing time). The connection to the headquarters dell'UNATCO is guaranteed with our PDA that allows us to get information from the satellite, including photos of where we could even attach personal notes, but also news about some situation or about the detection of enemy activity. The connection is maintained by a guy who looks a bit 'JC hacker figure of Sin, but also receive calls from our colleagues in action. In addition to this from time to time we will be in front of the questions that will change the course of history, in fact, not only on these occasions, but in many others, your actions will fall as a result, in the course of the subsequent chapters. Still on the work of the alter ego, we can move an object, break a glass, go on for twenty levels and then go back and found everything as we left, the corpses do not disappear hours as in many other games, it is interesting because it reveals the possibility of a precise reference point not to miss the big maps. Missions in stealth mode, the Thief to understand (among other things is known only from a few days the news that the programmers working on Deus Ex Thief 3) the presence of victims, particularly those caused by our weapons, could alarmed some guard, so it's always a case of putting the body on the back and deposit it in a dark place and do not attend, just to find a nice platoon armed to the teeth on our tracks, all seasoned by the sound of the alarm!

THE SON of the unreal

The game uses the Unreal engine, hard to believe since the code has been heavily modified, but when you look dell'UNATCO the hall, with the floor so polished as to reflect, recognize one of the most beautiful features of the game of Epic. Unfortunately these changes have influenced the movements of our character, they seem very "rough" than the original game, almost embarrassed ... then things really improve, although slightly, when you earn points in the sector agility. Artificial intelligence, sometimes you can say, is very good. The enemies when encountered individually, when they are injured in a serious way, rather than destroy flee for help, if they can come back in order in a few seconds with reinforcements and their attack will be much more violent. Know how to take advantage of environmental conditions, then crouch behind the crates and take cover behind the columns and make fire. A little 'less convincing the guards, if they see your presence we will try for a while', then let him run. Even the shapes of contour behave very realistically, get scared, if we approach or look for a long time they change their behavior in an unpredictable way according to the situations and places. Many "scenes" are waiting to be set in motion by our arrival, the classic one of two thugs who beat up after an unfortunate hackers, want to kill, if we decide to save it will reward us with important information and infinite "thanks". Equally fun is finding out that the non-player characters have a good memory. Making, in fact, certain actions could happen to surprise groups of people discussing the way we act, or who, after unedifying moves on our part, we recognize the NPC as "behold, he is the one that this time. .. ". And 'as feeling extremely addictive, seems really to interact with real people

Or situations of puzzles to solve, there are too many, often risks losing sight of the primary objective of the mission, but none of these puzzles is never trivial, even the aforementioned computers that require login and password, do not expect ready to find them pretty close, but look for them in many different places! The weapons are numerous, but most gadgets on the side, like the pass-partout or gas soporific, his club, the legendary Half-Life crow-bars. All these items can be picked up and placed in our virtual backpack has a limited space, for here we can bring so many items and weapons as there may be. Load a rocket launcher takes a lot of space compared to a package of ammunition, so you'll also save and manage your pocket. For all these objects there are shortcut keys from zero to nine where he could quickly call up during the action. The entire menu is run in visual drag and drop. The sector has great sound, EAX and receiving the protocols of the various "accelerators" sound, while the graphics are pretty critical for those who do not reveal a 3DFX. In any case, the robustness of the engine Epic has proven home sorprendetemene malleable for the purposes of this game. It 'also provided an area multiplayer, but given the strong nature of role-playing game, Deus Ex does not lend much to the frenetic life of the frags online.

Fantastic game! The graphics are awesome, compared with other games with same age. The game story is also very mesmerizing and killing time is no problem! :P

Best game ever. Played it for the first time 6 months ago. Since then it has been one of the most influential and profound games i have played. Please buy and play this game. And dont let the 1st two levels discourage you. this game is really something exceptional.

I have downloaded it and it is running on windows 7 with no problems and no updates required, downloaded all graphics mods which improved the gameplay a little but overall its an old game so got to expect old graphics, still a great game though well worth $10

First, the bad. The graphics aren't quite up to date... and that is pretty much it. The game is fantastic, and about as open as a shooter/RPG mix can be. If you enjoyed isometric RPGs, or even if you wish you could have a more invigorating shooter experience, this game could be the mix you are looking for.

This piece of programming code is more than game, it's like legend! No, wait... Archlegend! Game with so thick feeling, that some of players will be repulsed at instant. But if you manage to survive first minutes of gameplay, you will be sucked immediately by huge and living world, interesting people, many quests to solve, quite realistic history and charcter development (bio-upgrades and equipment). Do not stand here! Grab it!

Great game, good old classic, still playable in the modern days. A wonderful example of cyberpunk-themed games. Not to mention the great variety of approaches to any problem you will be pinned against. A true legend in gaming. You owe it to yourself to give it a go!

Deus Ex belongs in the collection of every serious pc gamer -- even if only for historical reasons. This FPS/RPG cross was produced by Warren Spector, one of the greatest names among game designers, creator of the famous System Shock games. And it shows, looking at parts of the interface and the way RPG aspects were implemented.

The approach to level design in Deus Ex was _the_ major achievement design-wise: It ditched the concept of a linear way through a set of challenges, as usual for run-of-the-mill FPS games, and made the player plan his own way. Each mission is set in a level that can be explored much like in open-world games. You will often find yourself scouting out the premises for ways to reach your objectives -- which one you decide to go is completely up to you.

An adventure gameplay aspect can also be found, for example as you give a hungry boy some food, which makes him tell you about a secret passage.

The setting and story of Deus Ex is of the cyber punk genre, which wasn't really seen in any games for years. A paranoia-ridden world, secret organisations, an engineered plague, conspiracies as far as the eye can see... Splendid!

Be sure to check out the mods available on The Net; even now, over ten years after release of the game, the Deus Ex modding community is still active, replacing textures and adding plenty of new content.

Just like a bottle of good wine, good games age well. Deus Ex is one of those games. Graphics look outdated, but thanks to the sound and the compelling story the atmosphere of Deus Ex is still unique. Even by 2010 standards.

What makes this game so special is the fact that it gives you the feeling to be part of a living world - not a scripted sequence of events as in many other games. Whatever problem you encounter within the game, there are always several ways to solve them. This makes Deus Ex fun to play over and over again even after you have finished it. (by the way, there are three possible different endings, depending on your actions...)

The only downside I could find with this download: Upon first start-up it will tell you, that you need the disc in your drive. I have no idea why, but looking into the game tutor here on Gamersgate you can find an easy solution for that. (simply editing a .ini, everyone gets that done)

This may be the greatest game of all time. There is a huge array of skills, locations, and plot choices to explore, but that's small pickings. The real treat of the game is choice. For every problem, there will be 20 ways to solve it. Yes, the graphics are dated, but I swore long ago to never complain about graphics. Doing that just encourages the graphics-over-gameplay games that plague the market today. You know who you are: Sacred 2 guys. Gothic guys. So yeah, its old, but it's well worth your money and your time.

A true classic. If you want an open ended game that allows you to solve problems however you wish, has an intriguing plot, and immerses you in various conspiracy theories then this is it. Several great mods exist as well - the best by far is the Nameless Mod - it may surpass the original! Also check out Zodiac as well (avoid Red Sun).

While Deus Ex is dated, the game is certainly worth playing and has a great story, as well as gameplay with a variety of play styles that is worth your time if you can stand dated graphics, because everything else in the game is everything but.

I've been gaming since the NES came out and let me tell you there are few games that are as good as Deus Ex. It was an amazing experience the first time I played it and revisiting it now - even after landmarks as Massive Effect and Fallout - the quality of this game still shines. The graphics may be outdated but the music and gameplay are as good as they were. The main quality of this game, for me, lies in it's atmosphere. Every detail adds richness and expansiveness to the story, and the game never seems to fall back on the sort of commonplace plot fillers we've been taught to take for granted . It may not not be for everyone but if you're looking for an immersive experience that challenges your intellect and delivers gaming-wise, this is a masterpiece.

I still remember the day I first played this game. Just a demo, but after 10 minutes of it I was utterly hooked into it. I couldn't get enough of it, and over all played and beat the game a few times.

While character creation is limited to a few styles, the style of story play and the multiple venues of proceeding the story are many.

Early you are given a myrid of choices of assaulting several enemy checkpoints, and the use of weapons there in. Using sheer brute force can be effective but can yield disastrous results if you don't check your fire, while the use of non lethal means can prove more useful especially in urban areas. But over all, for those who like to blast their way they will have a great time doing it, and those who use a subtle approach are rewarded with eaves dropping tid bits now and then, side quests and on occasion secret stash of weapons, getting more powerful and advanced weapons earlier.

While the graphics, by today's standards, are dated they are solid and I very rarely ever encounter a bug or glitch in the game.

Weapons are varied and become more varied with the use of weapon mods which allow you to customise weapons to your needs.

Not to mention the use of Nano-tech mods which will literally change the body of your character. From visual enhancements, toxin resistance, ballistic resistance, speed and stealth running and much more.

Combine this with a in depth character building process able to range from Medical to small arms, to explosives, lock picking, computer hacking and more you have a game that came keep your entertained for weeks, making you want to see whats behind that corner, whats beneath that man hole, or behind that door, this game will keep your guessing again and again.

This is a must have for anyone that loves RPG's and FPS games. Simply a must have.

To put it simply, this game is brilliant.

Deus Ex is, at first glance, just another First Person Shooter. To an extent, this is true. It is in First Person Perspective, and you can shoot things. This is only scratching the surface, however.

Various body upgrades, skills, and weapon mods allow you to play the game almost however you want - stealth can work, as can shooting everything in sight.

Even better is the plot, which takes a dystopian future and adds Awesome. Saying too much will give things away, but needless to say, things are not always as they seem.

This is basically the best FPS ever made. Period. I mean it. There's a myriad of different solutions to every obstacle that you encounter in the game, and there are an equal amount of small things that make this game so awesome. I play through this game regularly, and I find something new about it every time.

There's so much variety in this game that it's hard to overstate it. Want to become a tank that murders everything in his path? Do it. Want to be a superhacker that steals insane amounts of money from public ATMs? Go for it.

The story encapsulates basically every conspiracy theory that's ever been made. You may think that this makes the game stupid; on the contrary, the way that the story unravels is incredibly well written and even convincing.

Buy this game. Even after all these years, it's consistently entertaining.

This game, is simply amazing. It plays like a first-person shooter but it really offers so very much more. Plot, characters, a skill system, and a very reactive world make it an enthralling experience. Again, it is a first person shooter but it is far more "System Shock" than "Duke Nukem 3D". After playing for awhile through a few systems I really have nothing bad to say about it. Probably the highlight of the game for me has been how well the whole world reacts to your choices. What you say in conversations, how you act around others in the world and the manner in which you solve the problems all effect the way other characters will respond to you. Just as an example, when first walking around HQ early in the game I wandered into the ladies bathroom; much to the annoyance of the secretary in it at the time. Later, at the end of my boss' briefing he asked me to stay out of the women's room in the future. There is so many more examples of course but I don't want to give away any of the story. That's right, this game packs a real juicy plot. Finally, I'd like to point out that this game really delivers on its promise to offer multiple solutions to problems. Few games I've played have ever truly responded to a players decision to try different strategies like this one. I passed on try this game many times before eventually giving in and I wish I hadn't. I can't recommend enough that you give it a whirl if you too have been considering it but passing in the past. You won't regret it.

If you have never played Deus Ex then you owe it to yourself to do so. It is without a doubt one of the best games ever made. While at first if appears to be just another sci-fi shooter, it soon turns out to be so much more than that. It is a game which is almost endlessly replayable, with numerous ways to get through almost every situation and with so many choices leading to seriously different consequences depending on what you choose you will almost certainly be replaying this game again and again. While Deus Ex is a little old, as a result the graphics and some gameplay elements are a bit dated but if you can tolerate that then you will not have a problem! There are a couple of mods that improve the graphics out there or in development so graphicly you can make up for that. But graphics are unimportant when considering such a GREAT game.