You simply couldn’t make a game this big today with the visual fidelity expected of modern games. Deus Ex is an enormous game, featuring three massive cities-New York, Hong Kong and Paris-and other locations including Area 51. Outside of missions you’re free to explore, talk to NPCs, complete sidequests, and learn more about the state of the world through documents and news reports. Walk and talkīut it’s not all espionage and infiltration. You’re presented with these big, complex puzzles and the game leaves you to figure out how to solve them by yourself. You learn these things through experimentation, and that’s part of what makes Deus Ex so compelling.
Or you can stack crates to climb up to the statue and avoid the security systems altogether, but will have to deal with a group of terrorists in an open area without much cover.
But you’ll have to find a key, hack a series of cameras, and deal with a security bot. If you want to waltz in through the front door, you can. There are dozens of entry points into the statue, some more dangerous than others. But how you go about this is truly up to you. Terrorists have taken over the island, and you have to deal with them. Last year, Phil shared his thoughts on 2003's Deus Ex Invisible War and asked: what's good about the series' worst? A clue that maybe everything isn’t totally cool in this dystopian vision of the future. The statue not only provides a useful navigation point, but her missing head, blown off by terrorists, is an evocative piece of world-building. It’s smaller than other levels, and I’m still finding new ways to infiltrate it. The first level, Liberty Island, showcases everything that’s great about the game’s open-ended design and how it rewards creative thinking. And the desire to play with high-tech espionage toys.”Īnd it’s these toys, as well as Denton’s augmentations, that makes every playthrough of Deus Ex a wildly different experience. “The millennial madness that’s gripping the world, exemplified by The X-Files and a general fascination with conspiracy theories. “Deus Ex plugs into two popular fantasies,” reads the document. But after learning that his bosses have ties to a sinister Illuminati plot, he joins his brother Paul in the resistance against them. When the game begins he’s employed by a branch of the United Nations created in response to the growing threat of international terrorism.
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