Unlike it, however, this is intended to be readable straight-through in a linear manner. A different style for a different game. At the end of the page is a summary of all acronyms used, in case the first usage of the acronym goes unnoticed.
Deus Ex is an immersive role-playing first-person adventure shooter simulation, or a reasonable approximation thereof. No one really expected Deus Ex. It was an unprecedented game; before it, first-person shooters were nearly uniformly devoid of plot; even the well-respected Half-Life was just "the finest implementation of a game on rails anybody has ever done" according to Warren Spector, of course.
At the time of Deus Ex's release, Ion Storm [Dallas] was rather disliked by the gaming community, because of a controversy involving Ion Storm's founder John Romero and his four-years-under-development game Daikatana. Ion Storm Austin was a wholly separate division created when Romero offered Spector and his team funding with no interference, and it was delivered as promised.
Hence, no one saw Deus Ex coming, and most distrusted the company it came from. While it did not have a spectacular launch, gradually people noticed what Deus Ex was all about, and it began accumulating awards and gathering attention. It is the author's opinion that Deus Ex has the most detailed and immersive story yet seen in a game, and this page is dedicated to examining that story in detail. Additionally, with the upcoming release of Deus Ex II, there will be people who will play the new game without having played the first unthinkable, I know , and this page will help clear up the mysteries of Deus Ex's universe.
The credits as listed in the source text files are:. The future is here, and the world is a dangerous and chaotic place. Terrorists operate openly, killing thousands; drugs, disease, and pollution kill even more. The world's economies are close to collapse and the gap between the insanely wealthy and the desperately poor has grown to the size of the Grand Canyon.
