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[-] bleistift2@feddit.de 40 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Could someone enlighten me what Deus Ex is about without spoiling more than two hours of gameplay?

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 105 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

You're a new type of cyborg cop, that works for a new anti-terrorism unit to hunt down terrorists, formed after they bombed the twin towers. A global pandemic keeps the streets eerily quiet.

The game came out in 2000 btw.

[-] shadearg@lemmy.world 35 points 2 months ago

The game came out in 2000 btw.

And the last official patch was...

  • Mon Mar 19 12:06:14 2001 v1.112fm

...176 days before 9/11. Crazy foresight.

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago

Al-Qaeda tried to destroy those buildings every 5 years or so.

[-] shadearg@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

I got the game bundled with a SoundBlaster Live! Platinum 5.1 kit and played it before, during, and after 9/11, and was blown away by the coincidences that appeared eerily prescient during this time.

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