Deus Ex is a pretty awesome game. The game is so good that it has a thing called the "Deus Ex Effect," in which if anyone talks about, mentions, or waxes nostalgic about the first Deus Ex, there is someone bound to grab their CDs and reinstall, or buy it off Steam.

Deus Ex is great because it gives choice, and a lot of it. You can kill everything in sight. Go for the pacifist approach and avoid killing anyone. Pull out your Prod Charger and knock every enemy unconscious. This was also apparent in every single level, even the last one at Area 51 has choices in some way.

There is one thing I have to knock about it, and that's the combat. I played it on Realistic, and it was a pain to have an enemy get a lucky hit in the torso or head and kill me outright, negating my progress a few times. I think if you're gonna tackle this game, play it on Easy or Normal. You're here for the choices, the experiences, and the strategies, shooting and stabbing dudes is not what makes this game great.

Now that I finished this, I might actually crack open my copy of Human Revolution just to see if Eidos was able to duplicate that formula even without having Warren Spector or Harvey Smith. Maybe I'll play that fanmade DX mod called "The Nameless Mod." Maybe I'll actually try out Invisible War. Okay, I'm kidding on the last one.

Deus Ex is a game I replay almost every year, because I still find new things about it, including strategies and easter eggs. That, and this old classic.

I hope the Deus Ex effect is happening to you. You can thank me later. Make sure you get past Liberty Island, though. The game has such a strong beginning that it makes the rest of the game, even the duller parts like some of New York and Hong Kong seem less cool in comparison. Now to tackle games actually in my backlog, like Uncharted 3...

I'm still writing stuff on You Found a Secret Area, for those interested. Lately I posted an article about a 1999 Nintendo Power catalog. Why? Because I can. I usually hate advertising my blog on places like this, because I feel like I'm just using Giant Bomb to spam my stuff. Hopefully it's just me being paranoid...