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Subject: Should I buy Deus Ex?
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I've played the demo of this ages ago and, although I was a little overwhelmed by the way the game gives you 100% non-linear gameplay and a whole crapload of stuff in your inventory that is hard to manage, your sure to get used to it. First time I played it I thought the graphics were amazing and on an immense scale, but that isn't where the feel of the game comes from. This game's engine is so intelligent. you can pick stuff up, like a barrel and throw it with a different landing every time. If you drop a gun on top of another, they'll react with each other and tumble or fall, 100% realisticly. Oh, that reminds me, the guns...hehehe. On the first part of the demo I played, I came across a Security guard. I surveyed the inventory, looking for a weapon to unnessicarilly slaughter him with, but only found a pistol and knife, and he was wearing a lot of armor and wielding a huge weapon. So I got a distance away and shot him in the head, but he was wearing a helmet. Now he was angry. I unloaded bullet after bullet until, I spotted a hole in his armor. His jaw was showing. I quickly shot him, and like a ragdoll, he fell to the ground incredibly convincingly. I walked over and siezed his weapon. To my glee, it was a flamethrower, and later I found a shotgun and a stun gun.
You know what? you don't have to answer my question. Just by writing this I have convinced myself to get it.

  • 06.08.2004 10:59 AM PDT
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i agree with xeroh's suggestion. and to add to it, i thought the game was a rather huge disappointment. (we're talking about DX: Invisible War, right?) story, gameplay, graphics, none of them did "it" for me.

  • 06.08.2004 11:30 AM PDT
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Invisible War is s*** compared to its predecessor. The original had a far better story, was far more realistic and complex in every sense, a main character that was actually badass (I know he doesn't look badass in Invisible War), and an augmentation system that hadn't been dumbed down for consoles. If you've never played Deus Ex for the PC, you must as it probably has the best single player experience ever.

  • 06.08.2004 12:04 PM PDT
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No. Invisible War superceedes suckability.

  • 06.08.2004 2:55 PM PDT
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I had a lot of fun with Invisible War. It wasn’t a great shooter, and it had it’s faults, but it was a damn fun action-political RPG. Manipulate the leaders of the political factions, and then when you’ve used them for what they were worth, betray them. And you could assassinate almost anyone you wanted at anytime.

And the RPG skill aspects were simple and practical. There’s nothing like hiding your heat signature, going invisible, and walking up to the big military bot and taking it over, only to unleash hardcore rocket pwnage on the camp of enemy soldiers.

  • 06.08.2004 3:18 PM PDT
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I don't really recommend buying the game, Xeroh's idea of renting it until you beat it is good, but the OXM demo level is very fun to mess around in. There are alot more objects in that level in the demo then there is in the full version.

  • 06.08.2004 5:35 PM PDT