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It’s too open for stealth to work (it’s a bit tricky sneaking up on people when the nearest thing to hide behind is 50 yards from the guard you’re trying to stun) and your shooting skills won’t be honed enough to gun your way through either, so instead you find yourself sprinting from shadow to shadow and crouching in the gloom behind shipping crates feeling about as far from the nano-augmented super-secret-agent you’re supposed to be as possible. It almost feels like an obstacle put there on purpose to deter less persistent gamers from the good stuff that’s to follow.
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The starting area on Liberty Island has been much talked about for its freedom and multiple pathways but it’s probably the worst part of the entire game. I, however, am not one to let some dodgy graphics stop me from enjoying a good game and my god it really still is a superb game once you get past the opening level. The characters, though, will always look like lego men wearing oven-gloves. It’s no Crysis 2 but the texture pack and lighting effects can make some (though not all) of the locations look surprisingly modern.
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Returning to an 11 year old game is certainly made easier by the mods mentioned, there’s something very pleasing about returning to a game I originally played in 800×600 resolution and being able to crank it up to 1920×1200 with 16x anti-aliasing and all the other bells and whistles the DirectX10 mod allows. I got it upon release when I was still a spotty 15 year-old boy and loved it so much that every few years the urge to return to it has grown so strong I’ve found myself reinstalling again, starting once more on that dock on Liberty Island.
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So what’s it like returning to Deus Ex after all these years? I should point out this is now my 4th full playthrough of the game. With the much-hyped prequel on the way in about a fortnight it seems an apt time to look back at the game that started it all and why it’s still considered by many to be the best video game ever made 11 years after its release.
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One game that always gets my thought engines churning into life again though is Deus Ex and having recently started replaying it with the excellent New Vision HD texture mod (plus this DirectX10 mod and the partially complete DX:HD texture pack mod) I once again find my mind wandering through all things Deus Ex. Certainly nothing I really felt like writing about. The usual excuses apply (I’ve been busy and I’m naturally lazy!) but there’s also been a relative lack of anything particularly interesting grabbing my attention in the gaming world over the summer. I haven’t written on here for ages, in fact not since Frozen Synapse blew me away with its logical brilliance earlier this year.