Ladies and gentlemen, the only man who ever picked ginger JC

I love the dialogue acting actually. Especially JC's. It brings some levity to a pretty serious game, in a story with pretty serious stakes. And JC's a G

A headshot with a tranquilizer dart is an instantaneous knockout at certain skill levels.

You're so right. I am a designer who just watched Warren Spector's War Stories interview on Ars Technica for about the 5th time, and your intro really is accurate and says it all. "Deus Ex isn't *your* game, it's *my* game." Which is exactly how I felt in 7th grade playing it for the first time, and exactly how I feel now. A uniquely personal experience, which, while on narrative rails, became each of our own stylized narratives and action sequences. Which, is exactly how Warren Spector described wanting it to be for us, even all those years ago. Thanks for getting it. This is a really important piece of media and I think it might be years before people at large really get what this was for those of us fortunate enough to have experienced it.

20 years and still waiting for someone to write the real (full) novel of "Jacob's Shadow". I can't be the only one who would actually pay to buy a copy!

A friend of mine gifted me the game a year or so after release. I played through the first level and quit, because I was expecting a classic shooter... Then a year later I was bored and didn't know what to play. I found the CD and decided to give it another try. And man... I still remember the feelings that game gave me back then. It was so unbelieveable good that I didn't got enough sleep the next few nights. Funny thing is: the EXACT same thing happend to me about 2 years after that with System Shock 2 ;) Great video m8

The algorithm finally is showing me people I want to watch! You deserve so much more attention then you are getting, thank you for all the hard work you do!

I played this game for the first time in 2018 and it is still one of the best games to me almost ever. It's emergent gameplay thru all those well defined systems makes it feel like you are a ninja and actually infiltrating effectively.

Wow, all of a sudden everyone makes a Deus Ex Review, not gonna complain though. Nice work mate, this is the first video I watched from you.

This game was perfect for its time and opened my mind up to the sheer posibilities of gaming in the future and yet nothing has topped this game.

No man, this is MY game Randomly bought promotional titles on a Friday, when I was getting ready for a weekend away from home and my friends, in 2002 I spent the whole weekend with DeusEx and weed, I slept very little and it was amazing! one of my best gaming memories ty for this video bro a french guy

Sorry I keep adding comments but, headshots with the minicrossbow are one-hit non lethal. Definitely the most satisfying way to play, in my opinion. And the only way I played my first play through back in 2000. And I just realized someone else already commented this, haha.

I love the original Deus Ex. It's timeless.

Wow, this review was insanely comprehensive. You covered so much and yet there is a lot more you could have discussed, just goes to show how dense the Deus Ex experience is. Anyway, this review was fantastic and your love for the game really shines throughout. Great Video!

The SECOND time I've watched this entire video, and it's just as good as the first. Thanks for the tremendous amount of work and effort that made this critique possible - it too will live forever...

Thanks for the review dude. I was 17 when this showed up and I got it. Half life had just blown me away a couple of years earlier. When I played Deus Ex (on tnt2 m64 card) it was some next level ish. Forever becoming the most influential game in my entire life till this day. Thank you so much for walking me through these memories. Excellent review and awesome analysis. Keep it up.

Deus ex doesn't have good AI but in my opinion that actually helped the game, especially when it comes to stealth. Like thief, in deus ex metal floor makes more noise than other surfaces and different level of darkness hides the player differently depending on the distance between the enemy and the player. It's not so good as thief though. I am a stealth player and I have completed deus ex fully stealthy with no KO and without using any invisibility augs or equipment, fully using immergent gameplay and it was a very challenging and fun run for me. The AI is good enough to give a very good challenge but dumb enough that I used some crazy but very tricky tactics to sneak by enemies most of which are impossible in other games. I didn't think it was possible especially not the late game but I was surprised that I was even able to sneak by everyone without invisibility even in area 51. Only 1 section I had to use a thermoptic camo because the AI got bugged somehow. As for crossbow, that's the best weapon in the game in my opinion. Not for KO guards but to distract them. The best thing is as you can see how much of a different the experience can be for 2 different persons. For you crossbow was not that useful but for me it's extremely useful. To you AI isn't that good but for me that's exactly what deus ex needed (except for the bugs). That's the magic if deus ex in my opinion.

26:00 you can destroy cameras, turrets and alarm panels with a sniper rifle on master skill. Same with the dragon tooth sword with the combat aug. Also thermoptic lets you walk through laser grids.

Bought DX at release and still have it installed in 2020. Can't say I replay it every time I see it mentioned (rather once every couple years or so) but I have a great time every time I do. It was revolutionary and incredible at the time, and still holds up as fun and involving even now, which is more than can be said for the vast majority of games of any era. Also I find it's so-called "hardness" in the sense of it's lack of active guidance, one of it's best features. Maybe it's just me, but I intensely dislike the modern trend of games assuming I'm a literal moron and thinking they need to hold my hand the entire time. The endless tutorials, tips and nudges popping up for every action, and impossible-get-lost mapping and direction cues endemic to gaming now are all cancerous and awful. The whole I guess "freedom to get lost/fail" games like this gave us was awesome. I'd sooner spend half an hour wandering a level trying to find the man I'm supposed to meet (as with Deus Ex, having to *gasp* actually look at pictures and read actual maps and form a plan of entry etc) than having a giant glowing arrow pointing my way, counting down the distance to go, and direction tips popping up every time I take a 'wrong' turn or reminding me which button to press. Just ugh. Go away. It's awful design for kids with 5-second attention spans and needs to stop.

NEW 2-HOUR DEUS EX: HUMAN REVOLUTION REVIEW IS OUT NOW! Go check it out: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/kNhgqLiAmJ_apok.html What's your favorite Deus Ex memory? Stay safe, guys!

Awesome analysis! I’ve borrowed a disc from my classmate back in early 2001, GOTY edition. I was 13, and it was one of the first games on my first PC, along with NFS Porsche Unleashed and PC port of MGS), didn’t even read any game magazines or internet back then. Just dumb luck. I was so amazed and completely lost myself in that game that I’ve saved some lunch money and “leased” that disc eventually buying it off that guy)) Completed it at least once a year till 2010. And I fell in love with Hong Kong levels so much that I went to Chinese language group when got to a better school (dropped it after 2 years though). Was experimenting with the map editor as well, trying to add details to Hell’s Kitchen and Hong Kong section - like creating my fantasy apartment next to Jock’s one, across the street from Maggie Chow’s penthouse. Got into 3D graphics that way, actually, which became a hobby for half my life after that. There were awesome mods as well - yeah, The Nameless Mod is the most famous one, but Hotel Corona was cool as hell as well, with completely different story and locations, including a huge multistory... hotel)) Oh, and the disc was a pirate version. Talking about early 2000’s in Russia - even if one had money for a licensed disc, there were no stores selling them. But I still keep it as a piece of fond childhood memories that definitely contributed to who grew up to be. Of course, later bought licenses digital version just out of respect for dev’s and never pirated anything since 2007. If I some day have a spare $50mil or so - will def try to persuade Square Enix to finance a remake out of my pocket.

Found your reviews the other day. Genuinely enjoying them. Everyone’s moved away from long form content and it’s so good to see someone’s keeping it alive. Sub and likes unlocked.

Oi why are you calling my trusty as crap crossbow the worst weapon. That thing carried me through this game.

With the quality of these reviews, I'm genuinely baffled that you don't have at least 100x more subs. Apparently you've been doing long-form, in-depth reviews since long before it became trendy. Good news is, the fact that I finally stumbled across your channel is a good sign that the algorithm is catching on. Best of luck!

I want to thank the grey de-.. I mean coronavirus for making me stay home and play this game for the first time. I can't believe i slept on it for so long, truly a classic.

dude...this video is SO GOOD. damn i thought u had 50k or 100k subscribers, but...below 1k?? that's a crime man, ur videos are one of the best deus ex reviews in the youtube, aside from Ross Scott vid. Hope you'll have 1k subscribers by the end of this month man

12:14 "In twenty years I've never scored a goal, or.... slammed a dunk; sports!" WHAT?!?! You didn't get signed up for the Knicks? Oh man, you have to go back and replay the game, you are missing out my friend.

Does anyone else watch these hour long retrospectives and never played the game and probably never will?

This game needs a remake so badly. I'd love to see Warren take this game and expand everything into what he wanted to do originally but was held back by the technology of the time. Hell, I'd even settled for a Source engine port/remake. The game just needs a little help in the action, physics, and enemy AI departments and it wouldn't feel 20 years old anymore.

You deserve way more views. Just found your channel today and binged 4 hours of content. I do video editing myself and always wanted to make a gaming channel but never have. If I were to ever make that leap I would DEFINITELY use your work as inspiration. Awesome channel man.

I'm really digging this new wave of video essay KZfaqrs popping up everywhere. Great job, man! Subbed and waiting for you to blow up.

26:20 you can, just use the gep gun, any explosive, the cranial spy drone EMP to disable them, or a mastered sniper rifle, which has just enough damage to destroy any camera except in the end of the game where they are reinforced

How the hell do you only have 700 subscribers with such this kind of quality

20:25 "If you're used to shooters... just about any shooter, playing Deus Ex as a shooter feels... strange." I mean this is true if by shooter you mean "Doom" or "Quake," and not "Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six (1998)." If that was your first shooter, Deus Ex is downright gleeful as a shooter.

I'll never forget the time I went to Paris and found the door that leads to the catacombs. It looked exactly like it did in the game. I wanted to put on a trenchcoat and sunglasses and go down there, but it was closed.

That was a really well done and comprehensive review! This video deserves way more views.

The tranq dart mini-xbow was almost always my main weapon. You could play about with a load of weird playstyles and gadgets due to the amount of inventory space and spare skill points you had. It also stopped those MJ12 nutbags from exploding, which was nice.

That's easily the most interesting Deus Ex review I've seen (and there's been a lot of them lately). Keep up the good work.

_"Old men... are the future!"_

Having come from the recommended feed of Warlockracy's 2.5 hour long DeusEx review I must say I appreciate your brevity.

If only it could have been 7 hours... Thank you for this work!

Immersive sims are the best types of games IMO. Prey is in my top 5 best games of all time.

My favorite game I ever played! The plot, dialogue, strategy, music, darker feel, different ending you get to choose, various weapons, and different feel of cultures from the locations you visit made this game my favorite!

Thanks for the review. It's really interesting one. And thank you for English subtiteles. As a non-native English speaker it's really comfortable and useful to watch and learn :)

I was looking for this review. 2020 has been a weird year and I've been thinking about DX a lot recently. I've got my gf to play it right now with the revision mod enabled so that she can experience it as well. I get to sit down and watch her explore the world and discover it's secrets for the first time. The game is still pretty amazing both narratively and gameplay wise, even though it's many flaws.

It was and still is amazing. The choices that are available are incredible. I can remember on my first playthrough and basically "testing" the game. I would do something that I felt surely the game would not allow me to do, only to find that it would!

It’s still my favourite game of all time. Inspired me in music and narrative

12:15 for anyone that's curious, when you score a goal, dialogue shows in the top left box "Sign him up for the Knicks!"

I was introduced to DX on, of all things, prom night in the early 2000s. I was that awkward nerd who went to my best friend's house after prom, and he introduced me to the first real video game I'd played on PC since "Doom." Afterward he gave me the game, and I played it constantly until my mid twenties, when I moved and lost the CD. It's not perfect by any means, but DX played a hand in shaping how I thought about the world. It's impossible to list off its influences without this comment growing into a read as long as this video, but even now I sort of compare games to what it was I felt on...prom...night? Yep, that sounded weird, even to me. I may or may not still be that awkward nerd.

I only had one playthrough of this game yet so many memories of it. i still laugh when i think of the username for Gunther Herrman.

Great video champ. Always happy to sub for big ole game videos to help me get through my shifts. Thank you.

I know I've commented a few times here, but it's because I watched this in multiple sit downs. Just wanna say this is an amazing video. Dx is such a brilliant game, and so important to me personally, and I think you've done an amazing job of covering it here. It's easily the best DX video I've seen on YT, and I've watched a LOT. Great job man!

Also Btw you mentioned that you cant rly destroy the security cams thats cuz they have enforced metal chasie you need to master mele skill and hit it with dragon tooth or max rifles and hit it with snipoer rifle or generaly any explosions possible takes them down too

Love it when people talk about Deus Ex mods

Wtf how do you have 1560 subscribers only? This is excellent quality!

ALSO at the beginning ALWAYS choose the GEP gun. Otherwise it will be a VERY long time b4 u r offered another one ! The other weapons offered by Paul can be found ANYWHERE, ay ALL times 😋

After being discharged from US Army Intel in 2011, my friend and I started living in a car in Pacific Grove outside DLIFLC and he played Deus Ex 1 on his laptop everyday while I played AoE2. I tried playing it, but just had no idea. The NYC Streets theme imprinted itself into my mind, so years later after we split, I had to listen to it. Decided to play the game again, what a masterpiece. Can't wait to finish it.

Who tf "dislike'd" this?? This is like 15-20 hrs of blood, sweat, and editing. I'd upvote twice if I could.

BG3 does the same thing in 2023. The highest praise you can give a game is that you can honestly tell someone that you love it, but also that you're sure they'll like it even more than you do.

I have total nostalgia for Deus Ex's soundtrack, story, tone, and gameplay. One thing I really love about the first level, is how much the sandbox goals were achieved. There are tnt crates everywhere, and you can place these next to any vulnerable door or crate/chest with ease. You can also "taunt" enemies into the first dock to be mowed down by Paul and the first mech you see. Glad to see this very balanced review/retrospective of the game.

Best game ever!!! Human Revolution and mankind divided had a shit story and too much hand holding. This was just an amazing story and a game ahead of its time. We need more immersive sim/ stealth and mostly written by someone who can write a good story because if there's no decent story it's going to be a game you're not invested in. I was invested in JC, Paul, Alex, these characters were likable and relatable. This game just becomes that more of a gem the more the industry fails us all. There's every other game in the world but only 1 that captures this experience. Why oh why can't they just give us 1 more like this. Instead it's all cheap thrills, games a monkey could complete etc and so fourth. Original Deus Ex best game ever to date! I originally played as a kid not knowing about skills, so I didn't get hacking lol. That made it all the more realistic though. Having to find login credentials as opposed to that hack skill which is a bit of a cheat. Only critique would be the hacking part of the original now I know about it.

...." and I´m still finding...." Oh, if Warren Spector got only one Dollar for each time a DX-player mumbles these words to himself.

Warren might’ve been referencing the UNATCO prison cells where Simms goes to interrogate the prisoners, the layout is very similar to the MJ12 prison cells but unlike that area it is technically completely optional, you can just *not* go there, there’s nothing that requires it, and they’re kinda off to the side so if someone just did what they were told they might’ve completely missed them.

59:25 Think of it this way, Paul is yo brother, very close brother, he doesn't lie to JC and he genuinely tries to change his mind in hell's kitchen 3rd visit, I think JC kinda got carried away into NSF side cuz his bro was in it plus due to how quick his ex bosses were to dispose of him. Also apperently there was supposed to be full UNATCO path, you can still get a "UNATCO isn't perfect..." dialogue from JC Denton to Paul, which I'm not sure how to get, I think the way you get it is, do NOT kill Agent Navarra and either kill/knockout Lebedev, not sure if it counts if you chicken out and let Navarra kill him, after that you're on the "unatco" path and get the Manderley dialogue about him being happy you did your job but to stay vigilant since you gonna get last test "and JC, you MUST make them happy..." so after that you talk with Paul and what you have to do is come to that warehouse location, talk to the first UNATCO tropper with flamethrower and get the dialogue "aren't you supposed to be in Hong Kong?" after that immediately come back to Paul and JC will say very memorability worthy line of "Paul, I'm not gonna do it, I'm not a terrorist, UNATCO isn't perfect but" he says something after that and Paul replies "I just wish I knew how to convince you 😢" it genuinely made me almost tear up, after that allegedly you probably would do Hong Kong mission but in reverse, reporting to Maggie Chow and then invading Limunous Path after that I think you get the white house level that never got finished only some assets remain. Also also this voice line maybe restored by Revision mod I'm playing so I'm not sure if you can trigger it in vanilla game although I heard you could but the game would never progress after the dialogue since, well, UNATCO path was never finished. Btw you can check out YT video called "Deus Ex UNATCO isn't perfect" and it shows that top tier dialogue, description also says how you can view it via cheats

Wish they'd remake this game with unreal engine! This was my fav childhood game!

Non-lethal is the way to go

"It's not your game. It's my game." 🤓

A friend of mine worked on TNM. He coded for it, but was also the voice of the tech guy when you do the bad guy run. That game was dope

I liked the crossbow

One of my favorite games of all time, but I wouldn't call it the best shooter. The shooting itself is sub-par. Deus Ex is definitely a "whole is greater than the sum of its parts" sort of game. The biggest single stand-out is the level design.

Greatly appreciate you, man! It's just astonishing you haven't blown up on YT yet, makes me wish I had moolah to spare on support...

the section on technology and history was amazing, I only started pc gaming on a nearly non functional laptop in 2013, so learning more about the PC and it's history was so cool

Compared to this the sequels dont seem bad but they seem to have missed the forest for the trees. Style over substance when the original was never really about style anyway

Literally says "30-06" on the screen where you refer to it as a .50 cal. Other than that, spot-on review. 👍 Liked&subbed

There's a lot of videos about this game out there, but this was one of the better ones in my opinion Thanks for the upload! I really enjoyed it

Excellent review as always, though I do disagree with a few things only 38 minutes in. The mini-crossbow being useful or not is up to the player: are you willing to spend the upgrades and pick skills necessary to make it efficient in order to avoid killing, or will you regard wanton slaughter as simply a choice of cost/benefits? Keeping skills and augmentations in separate trees with overlap is more than just stupid redundancy, it gives you as a player the option to set your own priorities: should you sacrifice an augmentation slot to have more skill points to spend and vice versa. Manually having to activate the augmentations makes perfect sense for three reasons: * the power consumption, having all augs active would drain your energy at an alarming rate even with "passive" skills like the active sound dampening used for moving silently. Leaving the decision to the player when the cost of using augs are are worth the benefits they give to the player is, least to me, worth the hassle of managing them, as I am a firm believer that machines should do what I tell them to and not the other way around. * you my not always WANT the augs to kick in, the obvious example of using a headlight when trying to stay hidden in the dark, but an example specific for the game moving faster can make it harder to time the precision jump you try to do. * The Gunther effect... not a game mechanic, but only using the augs when actually needed helps preserve the humanity of JC, being a human with machines inside rather than becoming a machine with some human parts like Gunther.

"I was a jack of all trades" "The weapons were really underwhelming by end game" "The worst weapon was the minicrossbow" Hoo boy. Protip: the tranq dart minicrossbow can 1shot enemies provided you've maxed out Pistols and you take them by surprise. Your silly idea to master absolutely nothing severely gimped your experience. And yeah the sniper scope movement can be entirely eliminated. Provided you master the skill. I'm not that far into the review yet but I can already pre-empt some criticisms that are entirely your own fault.

Omg, FINALLY someone has explained the whole plot to me!!! Thank you very much, man (and i chose red JC as well)

I have never seen any of your content before this, feels like I've been watching you forever just with this one video Really good stuff man

Awww, you missed the original "Mess you up" line - I still use that today !😂😋

Tip I found on Deus Ex (Revision PC):- You can quicksave just before going through a laser grid to avoid setting it off (you must keep moving when you press quicksave). Also you can avoid fall damage if you quicksave just before landing and reload.

The opening lines of this review are so beautiful! This is MY game!

First time playing it and I’m obsessed.

Neat little easter-egg -- if you manage to make a goal at that basketball court in NYC, a message pops up that says "Sign him up for the knicks!"

This game and videos about it never cease to amaze me. I always play "Thief Ghost" even if I swear myself to play a rambo run; I've never encountered any of these; 27:00

Weird that I ended up watching this on June 25th lol Happy Birthday tomorrow, Nth!

I love how you said that world of Deus Ex is a playgound where you can do as you please even with items that are not mission stuff I felt that right in the feels since I did it like three times in my runs where I just run around UNATCO stealing all the books and chairs and plants and boxes decorations trophies from all rooms to decorate my own office no reason to do so but yes just beacuse you can I had hours of fun doing that

A game I have never uninstalled. Ever.

I have been watching all your deus ex reviews this week, and I really assumed you had millions of subs, such high quality content! Please keep going! :)

Currently playing Mankind Divided, which I'm loving, and re-re-re-playing this first chapter. Deus Ex was one of the most important games of my 33 years, it was a whole new level of thougtful entertaining. I can see myself replaying it when I'll be older. Great great review btw!

i actually liked the mini crossbow. but you need to aim for the head to put the enemies to sleep instantly. upgrading it with the scope helps a lot

I really appreciate your review. There are a lot of Deus Ex reviews, retrospectives, analyses and such on KZfaq but I think yours might be my favorite because of the balance you strike of humour, research and discussion. I played through Deus Ex: Human Revolution and then Deus Ex again after finishing Cyberpunk 2077 back in early Jan. I was looking to revisit Deus Ex especially as the last time I'd played it would have been on Steam in the mid 2000s or so, and I think I didn't understand half of the dialogue or story. Deus Ex: Human Revolution did a number of things I found super annoying (that hacking minigame is so annoying to play every time you want to hack a computer, which is a lot, you keep finding passwords to things you've already hacked) and I found that the original still had the most freedom of choice and felt more immersive. I feel as though the sequels lack the emergent storytelling you get from finding yourself in hard situations. A couple of things of note from the most recent playthrough of Deus Ex (2000) which you brought up but want to throw my voice in the ring: One, the number of lockpicks and multitools you needs to open doors, locks, electrical boxes, etc, is sometimes really absurd. I know it's tied to skills which improve the amount of tools you need and the time it takes, but it leads to a situation where I always didn't want to hack any doors or lockpick at all because I didn't know if there would come a moment where progress was gated behind one specific door or keypad. Further, there are lots of lockers, storage cupboards and the like that are locked, which is realistic but you'd spend two lockpicks to open it up and find ammo for a gun you don't use and a soda. People talk about how decisions about how to use your resources lead to "moment to moment gameplay" and how they make choices for the player. I don't think they do, I think they lead to me quicksaving, opening the locker, realising it's got nothing in there and then reloading. I'd have to make an out of gameplay decision to play differently, a self imposed limitation. Second, the augmentations operate in sometimes such a weird way and I agree with you, there should be some which are just passive always on upgrades. The Energy Recirculator for instance reduces the energy usage of all augmentations, but only if you turn it on. You'd have to remember, before an encounter or using the augment, to turn it on and I'd be running my hands all over the keyboard like a cool cyberpunk hacker. On top of that, some augments are so situational that I don't think I ever used them, like the advanced targeting or the one which detonates rockets ahead of you. I'm sure lots of people have stories of combining augs in great ways to make emergent story moments. Thirdly, I found that my approach to combat and stealth changed drastically once I got the Dragon's Tooth Sword. Sure, I still used the heavily upgraded 10mm pistol for range, and headshots with it were still second to none, but I changed from popping off a few shots and hiding to waiting to get the drop on enemies and then leaping out with my sword. It's interesting that a single weapon can change your play style like that, if you let it. Last, and this is more of a personal thing, but those damn spider bots that scurry around on the ground. Screw those things man, absolute hell on earth for whoever designed that thing. Anyway, great review man! You've got another subscriber here, love your work!

2 years later. My first video watching you. Happy birthday!

1:12:39 Evidence exists in the game's files, and can sometimes be triggered in-game through certain choices, that imply you could have sided with UNATCO/MJ12. I imagine what would essentially be an entire alternate game was way too big for what could be done at the time, and even today.

Deus Ex is like the only game I really, really want in VR and is also like the only game I"ll never ever get in VR. Thanks, "Warren", for that!

44:49 It's a pretty fitting location. It's underground and not easily accessible by terrorists. UNATCO HQ being on Liberty Island itself, with the statue having just had its head blown off, is an interesting juxtaposition

I must have played DX at least 60 times - and will probably do a playthrough every couple of years from now

I actually used the mini crossbow a lot. Multiple trq darts speed up the knock out effect. It was usefull to gain the 'the unavoidable sacrifice' achievement for the Revision mod.

12:20 if you score a point a message pops up "sign him up for the Knicks!!!!" discovered it some time in 2013, through my 7th playthrough.

I still remember going to the Paris catacombs with my girlfriend in the mid-2000s and saying "this is so weird, I've seen this all before but in much lower resolution"