VGC's Top 100 Best Games of All Time, Continued
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People enjoy cyberpunk; that's a fact of life. People also enjoys RPGs, as our list has shown so far. They enjoy shooters, too. Sometimes, people want a game that could combine all of these lovely elements into a single product with a simple and unified vision. Deus Ex delivered on that concept, and has carved out its own legend ever since. Deus Ex gave you control over your character and his abilities in a way that few other games did, allowing you to set down the parameters for what he could and could not do and then going wild within them, offering a tremendous degree of freedom in defining yourself in the context of the narrative. Beyond that, though, this freedom was combined with an intensely focused and thoughtful plot, entrenching players in a world of mystery and conspiracy and violence, where all the secrets in the world seemed to unravel, one after the other. Deus Ex is remembered for the way that it blended and transcended genres in a way no other game had done before and few (if any) games have done since, standing solid in each aspect that it meant to represent. People still speak of it fondly, and for good reason: in many ways, the game still has not been matched.
