Wolfram01 said:
So, I've never played Deus Ex before. Of course I've heard "good things" about it, but the same can of course be said of several games I don't like, so I don't really think popular opinion matters much lol. Anyway, all I've ever really seen on Deus Ex is actually from the newest iteration, and while it looks good I'm not really convinced. But back to the subject at hand, is Deus Ex a good game, and more importantly, why?
READ ME!!! Very detailed.
Lets make one thing clear, the shooting SUCKS in deus ex. You start with extremely innacurate weapons and every time you take a step forward you raddically lose accuracy, if you stand still you get more accurate but it takes about 5 seconds
The time gets less and less as you increase your skills and ducking or moving slowly does not benefit you, you will still lose accuracy very fast if moving despite what you do. On top of that the weapons in the game kinda suck, a pistol with 6 bullets in the future that does not kill with headshots half of he time and a tranquilizer crossbow that takes time to kill someone.
As you see, as an fps, it sucks badly and that REALLY brings down the game since in comparison with new fps, it really feels like a huge problem with the game.
Now what is good with the game: when you start you gotta pick skills, healing faster with items, using less lockpicks to open stuff, being better with certan weapon types. As you play the game you get more skill points from primary, secondary objectives and exploration. So thats one thing, its rpg system. Another is the augmentations which give you various abilities, auto heal, armor, camera radar, move faster, silently, be stronger. Those elements are however used diffirently from games nowdays and consume bio energy so you will need cells to recharge, on top of that each slot has 2 possible augmentations, eg either move faster or run silently, or do more damage with meele weapons or pick up heavier objects. On top of that you can upgrade them. So "Choices" are appearing in the game that change your character and what you can and cant do. Either cloak or be invisible from robots and camereas.
The game has a form of open world at certain city levels in which you can interact with npcs buy stuff, exlpore and do sidemissions.
By doing missions you get credits that you use to get all these and weamon mods or grenade/mines, which could be explosive,gas,emp and more. Even from the begining the game asks you if you want a rocketlauncher a sniper rifle or a tranquilizer to start with.
The REAL gameplay of deus ex is in the enemy bases you explore and the multipe ways to do it.
Eg: Guard, shoot him, sneak past him, stun him and knock him unconcious, plant a mine in his path.
Or going into a room, you can:
Find the key and open the door, lockpick it, blow up the door, hack the keypad, find the password, go to a computer with finding the login or hacking it, find the password there or unlock the door from there.
OR pick up a box, place it under an airduct climb in and get in the roo from there.
There are turrets and lasers in your way, throw an emp bomb, blow them up, hack them with a multitool.
Choices,choices,choices, so many ways to do something so you can replay those sections with difirent ways, hell you can even hack ATMs or use accounts you found to steal money. Enemies with turrets inside a room? either throw an emp and a gas grenade or find a computer to hack the turrets and use them on to kill the guards.
Also depending what you do in the game, certain people will die and your character will change sides, let alone diffirent endings.
