The game's plot essentially asks the question ' yes but what about moths so where does humanity go when we totally replace our bodies and our minds', and the answer is 'you flick a few switches and then Invisible War happens'. Human Revolution is a prequel set in 2027, where cyberpunk body modifications are mechanical, but by the time of Deus Ex in the 2050s a new wave of technology has found a way to inject microscopic nano-machines into people's bodies, so that Future Man looks more or less like us. Contemporary reviewers generally ignored the game's derivative nature, perhaps because it stole from so many sources that the reviewers were awed by its chutzpah. It's essentially a hodge-podge of cyberpunk ideas wrapped up in an aesthetic that borrows from The Matrix and Blade, and also Mondo 2000, cyberpunk fiction, the old Max Headroom TV show, the list is huge. The series is set in the mid-to-late twenty-first century, at a time when scientists have worked out how to improve the human body and perhaps even the human mind. On a tonal level it's more grounded in reality than the Metal Gear Solid games, although the characters still wear sunglasses at night and also baggy coats in order to make them look bigger than they really are.

Roughly 768mb, compared to 60gb for a typical A-list title in 2020, but it felt massive because what it lacked in detail textures it made up for in clever level design.ĭeus Ex is a first-person action adventure notable for its dense conspiracy theory plot and its open-ended gameplay, whereby you have to infiltrate a series of secure installations, but the execution is entirely up to you.

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