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5 stars
Version: Deus Ex demo
"If you don't yet have this game, GET IT!"
Pros: The way you progress through the various missions is practically limited by your own ingenuity - you can go up, over, under or around; you can fight or you can sneak; you can pick locks or destroy doors; you can disable security systems, avoid them, or use them to your advantage. There's so much exploration potential in this game - I've had it for a year and a half now and I'm still finding new things. It inspires genuine feelings of tension and fear - a deeply involving game, and the background is politically, historically and geographically amazingly well-researched. Combat uses a hit-location system which was innovative at the time and hasn't really been matched since. Oh, and playing as a nano-augmented superhuman rocks!
Cons: The graphics are quite poor, although this will (hopefully) be fixed by a forthcoming third-party mod. The voice-acting goes from bad to truly abysmal, with only a couple of exceptions. The action-combat element is quite poorly implemented. If you want an action game, look elsewhere.
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Another con is that it's slightly too easy. The only difference between the difficulty levels is how much damage the weapons do, and most of the time it's easy to lure an enemy away and deal with him individually without alerting his comrades or use the sniper rifle to avoid being hit.
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