Deus Ex was good ten years ago. Part one.

After uming and ahing over replaying Deus Ex for ages I finally decided to install it again yesterday with a high resolution graphics mod which makes no difference whatsoever and a gameplay mod called ‘Shifter’ which makes no difference whatsoever. So with no difference whatsoever I fired the game up and started playing Deus Ex for the first time in ten years.

The first thing I noticed was that the game looks about 250 years old, the character facial textures are especially bad, looking like tapioca with features drawn in with that jam you got with it in school and then mixed up a bit. I’d actually go as far as saying the game looks worse than Pong on the Atari.

The voice acting on most of the characters is also pretty poor. Most of them sound like they are reading their lines over the phone, in their car, on a motorway.

You know the bit at the start where you are on the pier thing? And you know that bit when you first leave the pier and step onto liberty Island and there’s all the terrorists walking about? Thats where I got up to before turning it off and doing something more productive like drinking beer, shouting at women from my office window and wanking.

I’ll carry on with it later today and see if that old Deus Ex magic returns…