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

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Basically: Anti-Terrorist agent gets instructed not to talk to terrorist, talks to terrorist and becomes a terrorist.

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You’re a cyborg agent for a new branch of the federal government formed in response to a terrorist attack on us soil tasked with performing extrajudicial acts in order to keep access to the treatment for a pandemic under government control.

In the opening cutscene the governments response to the pandemic is revealed to be “let it rip” for profit.

It’s a phenomenal game and very fun.

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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.

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Also everything was orchestrated by the Illuminati before they got hijacked by a splinter faction of even bigger dickbags than the normal Illuminati.

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Yeah, I left out the spoilers and stuff that didn’t actually happen.

There’s a lot of what were open secrets in the 90s, like that the gov’t was scanning internet traffic and phone calls, the existence of the NSA, the CIA blackmailing US politicians, that gets combined with wacky conspiracies in there, which leaves a bad taste.

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Technically it’s the statue of liberty. It’s what gives the purpose of UNATCO. to basically make the world police judge , jury and executioner

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UNATCO already exists before the statue of liberty

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(which was an inside job)

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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.

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

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A global pandemic keeps the streets eerily quiet.

well that’s not accurate at all for how it was in 2020

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It was for like…two weeks

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Cybernetics (or technology in general) are both the hope of humanity and its likely doom through abuse by powerful interests.

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