Widely regarded as one of the best and most atmosperic FPS out there(but it’s not a “go in with guns blazing” game), Deus Ex:Game of the Year is available on steam now for 9.95. I grabbed it last night, as I had never played it before.
I imagine most have heard of it, but you are a cybernetic human who can train and upgrade your weapons, skillsets, and body, as well as hack into computer systems, to stop an evil terrorist organization. The story gets much more convoluted, but I’m just on level 1.
most people say to train your hacking skills before you start, because those come in very handy right away. The first two levels are rather ordinary, then the story really gets going.
It really is a good game, and 10 bucks is steal unless you really hate the idea of an older fps.
This and half-life are really the culmination of the first generation of fps games started by doom and quake: the best of the best (though deus ex is much deeper than a simple fps since it has a lot of role-playing elements and interactive dialog).
First off, greatest computer game of all time. Hell, damn near greatest videogame of any sort of all time, save for the Miyamoto classics. My love for this game knows few bounds. (Nor my disappointment with the sequel…)
Secondly, once you start replaying and replaying the game (or at least the first part of it), I think you’ll begin to appreciate just how really well-crafted the first two levels, in particular, are, and the incredible amount of freedom you have in how you go about them, just how full each is of little touches that you only notice bit by bit. Or perhaps we just have rather different views; Liberty Island and Battery Park always stood out to me as true highlights of the game, and while it’s awesome throughout, those two are up near the apex.
Or perhaps we’re just looking at things differently, you in terms of story and me in terms of gameplay. But it’s all good. Every little thing in that game is good. My life’s ambition is not to one day be great myself, oh no; my life’s ambition is to one day see Warren Spector achieve further greatness by topping this game.
Just a bit of hyperbole in the above, but, man, simply having this discussion takes me back to warm and fuzzy times…
I would have to agree there. I must have replayed so many times, picking different skillsets and finding different solutions to the same obstacles each time. The dialog you have with other characters even changes depending on how you play the first two to three levels (particularly if you make it through either exclusivly using non-lethal means or if you just butcher everybody in sight). Not that it changes the major plot, but I thought it was a nice touch the first time I specialized in non-lethal take downs to find my bosses commending me for my humanity - wasn’t expecting it at all. Personally, my favorite level was
Sneaking around the laboratories, freeing all the mutated critters, and watching them kill all the scientists!
One of my all-time favorites… Did they upgrade it to the Source Engine? Or is it still the same game? I’ll probably end up ordering it through Steam anyway; now you’ve got me hankerin to take ol JC through the game again, and I doubt I’ll be able to find my original disks
I got this from Steam about a week ago as I never played it and as you say $10 is a great deal.
One problem though. It runs like shit on my laptop. I have a Dell D620 which is a pretty nice laptop. Runs HL2 on high settings well. I’ve tried it using hardware and software. I’ve taken the graphics setting down and still no luck. The launcher says that I should be able to play this game will all the settings on high. This is an old game. This laptop should be eating it alive but it plays very very jumpily.
I haven’t gotten past the first level yet, I was just repeating what I had read about the first two levels. Once I figured out some tricks, I restarted a couple of times so I could do the first level differently.
I just started this morning, but had read about it for years and have the PC to run it now, so I figured it was worth the 10 bucks
I loved the fact that the first time I got to the base, I wandered around and went into the woman’s bathroom - cueing a woman in there to call me “so unprofessional”. And then later the boss admonished me for it too! Brilliant.
And I like this so far, but the greatest computer game of all time is Tribes 1. It was multiplayer only, and few people got to see how highly skilled you could become, so it kind of goes under the radar. It had a jetpack to allow for the 3rd axis of movement, and a physics bug that the devs left in that allowed you to skip down hillsides and pick up momentum, which combined with the jetpack allowed for incredible speed. Their were 3 armor classes. Competitively, CTF became a sport that shoutcasting was born out of, with new tactics and skills being created by the players, only to be countered by the opposing position with a new skill on defense.
If I could compare it to anything, it would be like watching football in the 1920s, then watching all the innovations, and counters, that have happened in the last 80 years, but since it was being played by a few thousand people all the time, they happened in a few months.
Have you downloaded the latest graphics drivers for your laptop from the Dell support page? Also check the Steam support forums, as there may be others with the same problem who have found a workaround. Laptop video cards are notorious for weird, unexplained glitches in games. You can also mess around with your video accelleration settings – I usually leave it set at Auto (both in the game options and my video card config), but sometimes forcing it to Hardware Accelleration or Software Accelleration makes a difference – and sometimes with old games I have to disable it completely. You can also try setting your desktop screen resolution down to match the game’s resolution, then playing it full screen vice windowed mode (if that’s an option). That’s all I can think of for now. Good luck!
