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On Sun, 18 Oct 2015 10:01:11 +0100, JAB <nowa...@feckoff.com> wrote:

>On 14/10/2015 07:33, Leg...@invalid.com wrote:
>>  From Sream..FREE
>> Deus Ex: Revision
>> Upgraded graphics. Must also have Steam's Deus Ex to play.
>> It is a complete upgrade to game.
>>
>> http://store.steampowered.com/app/397550?snr=1_41_4__42
>>
>
>This was one of those games I desperately wanted to like but just 
>couldn't get into it how ever much I tried to tell myself that I should 
>like it. I don't think I got even more than a few hours in before I gave 
>up only to try again several months later but I still didn't "get it". 
>One of the other games like this was System Shock 2 - booh hiss I hear!

Deus Ex is definitely one of those games it took effort to appreciate.
It was never a good looking game; even when it was new it was behind
the curve graphically and the fact that the gameplay all took place at
night didn't help. The character models were awful (that was a common
problem with Unreal-engine games of the time for some reason). The
plot was extremely slow-paced and even when the action heated up, it
was in no way as intense as anything found in other FPS games; this
wasn't helped by its cumbersome interface. The fact that your
character started out as an unskilled novice who couldn't hold his
weapon steady didn't endear him to players either. The setting was
often self-important, full of references to esoteric conspiracy
theories and if you weren't "in the now" it was often a dismal slog.

And yet... and yet... by the time you got to the end you realized that
you had just had an amazing experience. The world was well detailed,
the story was beautifully complex, the characters - for all they were
dry and too wordy - were a cut above the archetypes found in most FPS
games, and the game did its best to give you multiple avenues of
attack. 

It might not be a particuarly FUN game but - especially for its time -
it was very IMPRESSIVE. 

Sadly, the starting levels are some of the least impressive. Liberty
Island plays out like a slow FPS shooter, and there's just not enough
direction in the Manhattan levels. New players are bored with the
first part, confused by the next and most give up just before it
starts getting interesting. Personally, I didn't really start having
fun with the game until Area 51, and that's like 90% into the game...