Steam Sale: Deus Ex PC Games for $2.50 Each
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Deus Ex is one of the very best genre-blending games of all time, which combined the immersion of a first-person shooter with the depth of a role-playing game.
The sequel, while not as hardcore as the original, still held elements that made the first one great. It was a distillation of first of the series, and it's still worth playing if you want to be fully prepared before the third game launches later this year.
Steam is having a sale that'll be on until the end of Thursday, April 22, where Dues Ex and Deus Ex: Invisible War are $2.50 each. For just a fiver, you can get some excellent, solid PC gaming ready for the weekend – even if it's a trip down memory lane.
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I was also disappointed when I installed my free copy of Thief 2 AFTER I played Deus-Ex, and found out the gameplay was nearly identical (Thief just didn't have automatic weapons). I'm not sure why Deus-Ex got such better reviews when it played the same as the older Thief series.
Either way, I'll have to pick this up.
Your room mate and you needed to run the game in Glide mode... on a Voodoo 3000 or better, it was smooth as butter on my 5500. Ahhh good old Glide in some ways I still miss it, not sure what the magic fairy juice was in the driver or the hardware but there was something in it. Maybe it was my rose tinted glasses they say time tends to make things better then they actually where. lol
The second Deus Ex, not so fun. A decent enough game, but a little below expectations after playing the first one
bildo123, i would say at least get the first one if you really want a game with a decent storyline. for only $2.50, you seriously have nothing to lose.
For those who have never played the series: Buy it; there's a reason so many of us fawn all over the name. Here are some of the game's finer points...
1) It's one of the most engrossing single player FPS titles ever, blending first person [shooting] action, top-notch story telling, RPG elements, and a phenomenal story.
2) Deus Ex has a fantastic soundtrack, [primarily] composed by none other than Alexander Brandon; the genius behind Unreal Tournmanet's music.
3) The voice acting is the epitome of the "so bad it's good" phenomenon.
Unfortunately, the graphics have not aged well, and there will surely be some people who pass over this masterpiece for that reason alone.
"What a shame."
Perhaps that's because you played Deus Ex in the same way you played Thief, i.e. stealthy. The beauty of Deus Ex is that you can play how you want to and complete missions in multiple ways - be it a walking tank, a super spy or a hacker who lets other machines to do the dirty work. 2 is heavily crippled by the damn Xbox, but still not too bad. I hope 3 will not be just another console port...