How Deus Ex Predicted The Future
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A piece of driftwood internet wisdom that sometimes floats past on gaming message boards goes something like this: every time you mention
Somewhere, wheezing for breath under the clutter of my room/workspace/habitat, is my original
Deus Ex CD-ROM, which I bought aged 12 on a whim with pocket money. My reasoning was solid: I’d never heard of the game, but the back of the box promised guns and conspiracies, and the dude on the front was rocking some dangerously cool shades. Little Me might not have known much about global banking conspiracies or the Trilateral Commission, but you could coax him onto the cyberpunk neo-anarchist bandwagon with a pair of polarised Wayfarers and a