Deus Ex

by Eidos

Product Features

• Travel the world from New York to Paris to Hong Kong exploring locations recreated from detailed maps, blueprints and photographs
• A chaotic blend of real world conspiracies, cliffhangers, and plot twists
• Incorporates the best elements of role playing, action, adventure, and first person shooter genres
• Create new standalone missions
• DX Multiplayer challenges you to utilize skills, nanotech augmentations, weapons, and strategies in competition against up to 15 human opponents online

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00005B44D
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: May 9, 2001
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (121 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #22,138 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Platform: PC | Edition: Game of the Year

Amazon.com Product Description

It's the new millennium. Civilization is near collapse. The world economy is in chaos. The middle class no longer exists. Deadly viruses have ravaged the earth's population. Terrorism runs rampant. From this maelstrom of violence and suffering an ancient conspiracy bent on world domination emerges from the shadows of legend. The conspirators' greatest strength? No one believes they exist. No one but you.

In Deus Ex, immerse yourself in an intricate web of betrayal and intrigue as you attempt to uncover power struggles, hidden agendas, and the dark conspiracy behind it all. Travel the globe building a network of allies and create an alternate identity to aid you in your search for the truth. There is no one path to success. It is achieved through various means; employ stealth, strategy, or force--the choice is yours. But remember, trust no one. Even those who you keep as allies may be more than they seem. Question everything.

This game incorporates role-playing, action, adventure, and first-person shooter genres into a chaotic blend of real-world conspiracies, cliffhangers, and plot twists. Explore a richly simulated world of unparalleled interactivity, engineered to react logically to your every action. The Game of the Year Edition now includes DX Multiplayer, DeathMatch, and Team DeathMatch, plus five new multiplayer maps and a built-in search engine for multiplayer servers. The bonus soundtrack CD contains 30 tracks remixed for higher audio quality. With the included software development kit, you can create standalone Deus Ex missions, build 3-D maps from scratch, or modify existing Deus Ex maps; you can also create new conversationsbetween game characters with ConEdit. The package includes a Deus Ex Windows desktop theme.

Product Description

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!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

42 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars THE GREATEST GAME of all time . . . of ANY platform . . . Period!, December 8, 2005

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Moroni Marten (Utah) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition (CD-ROM)

I believe Deus Ex will be known as the best game ever made . . . ever. I play a lot of games - mostly PC FPS. Some games are very good. Recently I played F.E.A.R., Call of Duty 2, Half-Life 2, Far Cry, Doom 3, etc. They are good games. But they don't have the "soul" of Deus Ex.

In a way, Deus Ex has ruined gaming for me. Every since I played Deus Ex, I have been searching and searching for a game that has even come close to the same atmosphere and "feeling" - only to be sadly disappointed. I am just going to have to accept the fact that Deus Ex was a one-of-a-kind gaming experience that will never be replicated.

I have tried to identify why Deus Ex is so great. I have concluded that the game includes a magical combination of plot, story, characterization, immersion, atmosphere, modifications, action and adventure. It was so well implemented and combined, that such an achievement will never again be realized. It was a freak of fate and brilliance.

Just thinking about the game makes me teary-eyed and yearning to play. In the course of one's life, there may be a song, movie, trip, or (in this case) a game that is never to be forgotten. Deus Ex is extraordinary!

47 of 48 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of Computer Gaming's True Triumphs, June 19, 2003

By 

John Whaley (Acworth, GA) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition (CD-ROM)

Most of the time when you think of a first-person shooter, you picture fast-paced slaughter and mayhem like in the legendary Quake and Unreal line. Deus Ex, however, adds an unprecedented level of intelligence to a genre previously devoid of any thought other than "if it moves, kill it".
Deus Ex follows Agent JC Denton on his first assignment for UNATCO - an anti-terrorist group with wide-reaching jurisdiction. JC is a special nanotech-augmented cyborg with a wide range of superhuman abilities. You are able to customize your character throughout the game in an RPG-esque style. Want to go in with guns blazing? Increase training in heavy arms and pistols. Want to take out the bad guys from a distance? Focus on Rifle training. Want to hack into the security system and have it eliminate the bad guys for you? Train heavily on electronics and computers. Want to be able to heal yourself instantly? Train up on Medicine. Depending on how you train your character, the gameplay changes significantly. This not only adds tremendous amounts of depth, but also increases the replay value. As if that wasn't enough, the storyline is very intricate and boasts some superb twists. You will end up not knowing who to trust as the game goes on. The plotline culminates in three possible endings, depending on whose side you choose.
Highest possible recommendation.

26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Deus Ex is easily one of the best computer games ever made., May 7, 2001

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"themancalledsam" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition (CD-ROM)

Deus Ex is a fantastic game. The single player storyline is fascinating, drawing one into the story. And you don't want to leave. This game, a combination of heroin and Godzilla, pulled me in, and wouldn't let me out, devouring whole weekends and hours of free time. The gameplay is a lot of fun, and is very open-ended. Many games talk about how there's the option of sneaking in or running in with the guns blazing, but this is the only game where you can see real direct effects of those choices. Run in with an assault rifle and you'll have a lot of corpses lying on the floor. But due to that gun's recoil, one guy runs off long enough to hit an alarm sounder. Suddenly dozens of guards and security robots swarm the area. You're dead very quickly. Everything you do has consequences. Characters in the game will react differently to whether you run into an area and slaughter everyone in sight or slowly approach, and take them alive instead. Because of every choice changing the game, there's a high replayability level to see what would have happened if you had done things differently. The inventory system, the nanotech augmentations (special abilities you can gain) and the skills system (completing objectives gets you skill points, which let you become better in certain areas such as electronics, ability with weapons, and lockpicking) are all intuitive and simple. Bottom line: This is a great game, and you will enjoy it.

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