Deus Ex was good ten years ago part 2 – The end.
I’ve got up to the bit where you have to infiltrate the aircraft hanger and quite frankly I cant be arsed anymore. So thats it, i’ve given up on Deus Ex. How people manage to come back to it every year I do not know. I play old games probably more than I play new games and often were talking about games from twenty years ago never mind ten so it not about graphics or sound or anything like that. its just a bloody dull game it really is. I loved it when it first came out but there is definitely a reason why I have not been back to it since the year 2000. I think the main thing that bothers me is the completely uninspiring environments, they are just the most awful, dull levels i’ve ever seen. Diakatana had better levels than Deus Ex, you think I’m joking don’t you? Well I’m not. I’m deadly serious.
Characterization is terrible, we know exactly who the bad guys are right from the start due to the completely pantomime nature of the villains and more clichés than you can shake a massive fuck off stick at.
Combat is far worse than I remember it with the accuracy and damage of weapons being a massive joke. I tried to use stealth with the prod(Fucking prod this prod that, shut up Paul Denton you prick!) and the mini crossbow with tranquilizer darts.
1. The prod sometimes works and sometimes doesn’t, there cannot be room for inconsistency like this in a stealth game, at all. you have to know your tools are going to do the job.
2.The tranquilizer darts take far too long to take effect on an enemy, so you shoot one into a guys neck from your hiding place and all hell breaks loose, they can instantly tell where the fuck you are and start shooting you and alarms start going off and you have to hit that fucking quick load button again and again and again.
God dam it sucks.
Side missions are also rubbish and are there only so you can get an extra multi tool or some crappy ammo that does no damage even with mods on your gun.
Sorry Deus Ex but you can fuck right off my hard drive forever.
