Gameplay
If you haven´t played Dues Ex before, the first thing you want to know is that it´s for all intensive purposes a First Person Shooter. Alex has a choice to his destiny. The game is fairly open ended in that respect. In the beginning, Alex finds out on a place called Tarsus that he was experimented on with these Biomed enhancements, spied on, and pretty much completely used and controlled. When Tarsus is attacked by The Order, Alex is moved to another academy, which then comes under attack. But that that point, Alex is given the other side of the story and the truth about his existence. He asked to choose whether to regroup with the WTO, or to maybe believe what he´s been told and maybe listen to what else The Order has to say. And so your goals and your missions are totally up to you, and based on who you decide to talk to and who you do things for. Each goal also has multiple ways to complete it, which also adds a different element to the game. You will even have the opportunity to complete side-quests for individuals along the way yields wealth and reputation. Bribe your way into unauthorized areas using cold cash earned through your dealings. In that sense, it takes on a bit of an RPG feel. And with the storyline that changes depending on you, the game actually can be played multiple times. There is so little that is linear in the game, You can completely control your own destiny in the game.
Not only is plot progression dependent on a huge field of choice, but any given task has a multitude of possible solutions. Nearly any conceivable path is theoretically possible; that´s the payoff in Invisible War. Your biomod choices immediately close or open certain doors, and there´s a configuration for every player.
The other part of Deus Ex that makes it different than other standard FPS´s revolves around another gameplay addition. This is the " Biomod" technology you heard about a little earlier. Biomod’s are modular nanotechnology implants that imbue you with extraordinary abilities. They are your principal operational assets both in and out of combat, as well as your main means of customizing your character. You have five assigned biomod slots corresponding with one part of the body -- eyes, head, arms, legs, torso -- and can take an enhancement up to three steps. Some mods require extremely rare black market canisters, making them more valuable. Obviously, your modification choices dramatically affect gameplay. The light biomod is fixed in the sixth slot, and cannot be upgraded or removed. Standard biomod canisters can establish or upgrade any standard biomod in any slot, and black market canisters can establish or upgrade a black market biomod in any slot. You can enhance yourself to some extraordinary things; such as enhanced speed and jumping, life regeneration, better weapon aim, cloaking, vision enhancement, strength, and more. As you progress through the game, you will find and gain more biomod canisters which will add power to these enhancements. Perhaps you will use these Biomod’s to take down the very people that gave them to you in the first place, or you´ll use them to fight The Order. See how again the choice comes back to being yours?
The environment around you moves and allows you to fully interact. From full conversations you have with people where you can choose your responses, to the ability to use stealth and shadows to move about, there isn´t much you can´t do in DX 2. In fact, you can even chose whether or not to kill your enemy combatants or not. Sometimes simply shooting them in the leg is good enough to stop them from shooting at you, especially when you know you´re running out of ammo. In addition to weapons you can carry an array of tools including the " multi-tool", which can open special locked boxes or hack into keypads and different computers. You can find special binoculars, various grenades ( like the spiderbomb, which is really cool. It actually drops robot spiders at your opponents feet with zapping lasers), and noisemakers. Also, objects around the " world" can be moved, picked up and thrown, or otherwise manipulated in a variety of ways to accomplish what you´re trying to do. Why shoot someone when you can hit them with a wooden crate and knock them out. Once again, choice.
