Players can choose to sneak past the robots as they patrol in circuit, lock-pick a nearby door to bypass the area the robots patrol, or, of course, go in guns blazing. For example, a building might be guarded by robots. The RPG/shooter gameplay supports many different play styles from run-and-gun, to stealth, to subterfuge. As JC Denton, players can make choices that ultimately alter the course of the main story, both in dialogue and through game actions. Gameplayĭeus Ex plays as a hybrid between a shooter and an RPG.
The future path of humanity is at stake and the game culminates with the player making the ultimate determination of mankind's future by choosing one of three possible scenarios. Though, throughout the course of the story, JC finds himself dropped into a larger ideological war involving the Illuminati, Majestic-12, and other secret organizations. JC is charged with investigating a terrorist group known as the NSF (National Secessionist Force). In Deus Ex, players take on the role of JC Denton, a nano-augmented agent of UNATCO (the United Nations Anti-Terrorist Coalition). Developed by Ion Storm Austin, and released in 2000 by Eidos Interactive, Deus Ex is a first-person shooter/role-playing game hybrid.
