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Could someone enlighten me what Deus Ex is about without spoiling more than two hours of gameplay?
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.
And the last official patch was...
Mon Mar 19 12:06:14 2001 v1.112fm
...176 days before 9/11. Crazy foresight.
Al-Qaeda tried to destroy those buildings every 5 years or so.
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.