Deus Ex: The Conspiracy
						Graphics: 6 Sound: 9 Gameplay: 9 Replay Value: 10 Reviewer's Tilt: 10 Overall: 9.3
			Want innovation? You got it. Reviewed by Chris
			I haven't played the PC version of this game, but I would hazard a guess that it looks better than the PS2 version. And has less clunky loading. Crummy graphics or not, the game is still innovative and highly addictive! I'm not a graphics fan, I could care less how games look as long as they're good. This is definately the case with the release of this port of a popular PC game. The controls feel right, the sounds are perfect, with some very awesome voice talents. This game is beautiful in its ugly way. The best part of Deus Ex: The Conspiracy is the original gameplay. It's more than a FPS, that's for sure. Most of the time, you're not shooting, which may at first steer some action fans away. There isn't constant action, but when there is action, it's fast-paced and simply mindblowing. You can kill someone, hide their body in the bathroom, close the door, and read their interesting e-mail. It's definately a unique experience, and the game is highly interactive--you can interact with virtually everything you see! Holster your gun to pick up a houseplant and throw it at someone, or flush a toilet, leave the faucet running, etc. The game takes FPS gameplay to a whole new level. You can choose to be good or bad, and you can choose whether or not you complete mission objectives...which means you can basically be your own boss, and other police at your secret base (visited after every mission) seem to notice how you're progressing. One time I broke into the ladies' room and spied on a woman...uh, doing her thing. She got pissed off and left. A few hours later I went to the boss to proceed further in the game...he told me to stay out of the ladies' room. And he told me that I was an embarrassment. I got pissed and slit his throat. Yes, this game is very mature. Blood, sure. Gore, yes. But the most mature aspect of the gameplay is the interaction between the characters. Sure, you could argue that it earns its M-rating due to graphic violence and drug use, but really--it's mature! The characters seem to be annoyed at you. There's little secrets here and there, and nifty little plot secrets here and there. The graphics sicken me at times. The framerate runs at about 30 FPS, which isn't anything special in today's console game standards, and the graphics look like they came from a very old PC game (they did!). But the game doesn't look that bad, and you get used to the graphics after a while. And the load times in the game are horrible. It's not like they're that long, because they're really not, it's because it pulls that Soldier of Fortune thing where it freezes the game, then loads the load screen (hmm...) and then, uh, really loads. Deus Ex is exciting and a breakthrough in gaming. It may have looked great back then, but now it doesn't look all that spectacular. I don't care about graphics anyway. Have fun with this game's complexity--its shear imaginative gameplay that really blows you away.