History Videogame / DeusEx

* TaintedVeins: Subverted, nano-augs veins show, but they are far from sick...
** Played straight with Walton Simons, who looks like a right freak with the 'bioelectrics' marking his face. JC [[{{Lampshades}} lampshades]] this in one of his snarky moments.

** FridgeBrilliance: Read the name of artificial virtual currency aloud. Inflation bubble, anyone?

** Could be a case of FridgeBrilliance. JC's nano augmentations may [[WildMassGuessing have the ability to translate languages.]], or that he learned these languages during his training with UNATCO, French and Cantonese both being major languages during the 20th- and probably also the early 21st century.

* AirVentEscape: JC seemingly spends a good deal of his time crawling around in air vents and maintenance tunnels of all sizes and colors worldwide. You do have to watch out for acid-spewing greasels (which are annoying and/or dangerous, depending on the difficulty level) that tend to reside in the crawlspaces.

** Like mentioned above, some DummiedOut code hinted that you could have [[spoiler: stayed loyal to [=UNATCO=].]] A video of the conversation can be seen [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cEg5Xo7VFU&feature=related here.]] There was also rumors of a [[spoiler: Join Bob Page ending]].

** [[Morpheus]] on the other hand averts this since it's only a simple prototype and does pretty much as instructed.

The game is also known for its relatively active modding community. 2006 saw the release of the ''{{Zodiac}}'' mod, a fan-made {{Interquel}} that allows you to play as Paul Denton. In 2009, a fanmade total conversion, ''TheNamelessMod'' was released, featuring an original non-linear plot and fully voiced dialogue. A fan-made prequel, ''{{TwentyTwentySeven 2027}}'' featuring DirectX 9 graphics, and a non-linear plot.

* GameMod: A few, such as ''VideoGame/{{Zodiac}}'', ''Shifter'', ''Redsun2020'', ''TheNamelessMod'', ''{{TwentyTwentySeven 2027}}'', and the ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-faAQIjbJZE Malkavian Mod]]''.

In 2009, a fanmade total conversion, ''TheNamelessMod'' was released, featuring an original non-linear plot and fully voiced dialogue.

* GameMod: A few, such as ''VideoGame/{{Zodiac}}'', ''Shifter'', ''Redsun2020'', ''TheNamelessMod'' and the ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-faAQIjbJZE Malkavian Mod]]''.

* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: No one will care if JC is brandishing a submachine gun or a sword. They ''will'' react if he pulls out a heavy weapon like a flamethrower or a GEP gun.
** In a game bug, most of the time, no one will blink if you plop a dead body in front of them.

** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG1qKzIsisU oh my god jc a bomb]]

** Although in Paris it's pretty much TruthInTelevision. The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_sewers Paris sewers actually ''are'' like that.]]

** Although in Paris it's pretty much TruthInTelevision. The [[{{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_sewers}} Paris sewers actually ''are'' like that.]]

* HelloInsertNameHere: Partially; the protagonist is always referred to in dialogue as JC Denton, which is apparently only his code name, but the player can choose his real name, which is used in a few emails and newspapers. A silly name can become doubly hilarious when player is reading a serious article warning citizens to beware of the dangerous rouge agent known as [[ZeroPunctuation "Sexton Crikey."]]

* InstantSedation: If you shoot someone in the face with a tranquilizer dart.
** Somewhat subverted (relative to most similar examples) in that it does take several seconds to bring someone down, during which time they'll run around doing their level best to kill you and alert their buddies.

* KatanasAreJustBetter: In this universe where people can pay to have the ability to level a building and reduce an entire town full of people to mush by just ''thinking'' at them, or can carry enough firepower to make the US Army blush, the strongest weapon in the game is a sword. Subverted in that it is not a katana. [[{{UsefulNotes/Swords}} If anything, it's a jian or even a plain arming sword (albeit one with a weird hilt)]].
** Somewhat less subverted by it being... y'know... a lightsabre.

* TalkingIsAFreeAction: Somewhat averted, as dialogue happens in realtime, but can be fast-forwarded and is not interrupted by combat, with hostiles politely waiting to attack.

''Deus Ex'' is an award-winning FirstPersonShooter with RPGElements developed by Ion Storm and published by Eidos. It was released around the summer of [[TurnOfTheMillennium 2000]] for {{Windows}} and [[AppleMacintosh Macintosh]]. A PS2 port, titled ''Deus Ex: The Conspiracy'', was released in spring 2002.

* WarringWithoutWeapons: After you get captured by UNATCO in New York. You can get your weapons back. Strangely though, they don't take your ammo.

* AIIsACrapshoot: Boy howdy. [[Daedalus]] turned on its masters, [[Helios]] does the same in the end, and [[Icarus]] is a dick to begin with. The first two are [[HeelFaceTurn Heel Face Turns,]] though.

* ApocalypseHow: Destroying the Aquinas hub [[spoiler: causes a class 1 - its destruction knocks the world back into a new Dark Age as all global communication and commerce is wiped out.]] To quote Tracer Tong: [[spoiler: "No more infolinks, no transmissions of any kind - we'll start over, live in villages."]] Destroying it doesn't directly cause more deaths, but humans have been dropping like flies since before the game begins.
* AppliedPhlebotinum. Minimally invasive human augmentation? [[{{Nanotechnology}} Nanites]]. AbsurdlySharpBlade? [[{{Nanotechnology}} Nanites]]. [[spoiler: Engineered plague with artificially scarce treatment? ]] [[{{Nanotechnology}} NANITES, DAMMIT!]]

** JC has just learned [[spoiler:[[ConspiracyKitchenSink that the UN is a front for MJ12 who have a base in the sewers and kidnap people, encountered Grays, learned of the existence of a machine that can just make just about anything desired, mutant monsters and more]]]] After all this he thinks someone is joking when they say [[spoiler:The Illuminati]] is real.
** At the end of the game, JC meets a techie who tells him of [[spoiler:the Greys]]. JC likewise finds it hard to believe, as if he hadn't already seen (and likely gunned down) quite a number of them, and possibly even learned of their origin.
** In the very beginning, if you give beer to Jock for information [[spoiler: he spoils the whole game's plot right there, although he is just making an educated guess at the time.]] JC is quick to dismiss it as a crackpot theory but as the game goes by [[spoiler: Everything he said was true.]]

* AIIsACrapshoot: Boy howdy. [[spoiler: Daedalus]] turned on its masters, [[spoiler: Helios]] does the same in the end, and [[spoiler: Icarus]] is a dick to begin with. The first two are [[spoiler: [[HeelFaceTurn Heel Face Turns,]]]] though.
** [[spoiler: Morpheus]] on the other hand averts this since it's only a simple prototype and does pretty much as instructed.

** One of the songs in the soundtrack (by Alexander Brandon) is titled "Mission Eight" ([[IHaveManyNames among other names]]) and is [[TheJimmyHartVersion similar in name and in style]] (at least in the beginning) to "Mechanism Eight" (by Necros) from ''UnrealTournament'', the soundtrack of which was also composed mostly by Brandon.

* ZeroPunctuation: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6j8jMn2Kcgs Yahtzee's song.]]

* Autodoc: There are healing robots that can heal the player fully without using resources and perform surgery to install augmentations.