![]() Eventually you can potentially find this person in the act, if you explore and actually find them. One minor example of this, since we want to avoid major spoilers, is when you hear that there is a thief in the UNATCO HQ, stealing supplies. Not just blatant forced “choice and consequence” like every game has nowadays, more like consequences without deliberate choices. The freedom of choice makes itself most notable when you do something and see other people react to it, in ways most games don’t bother to. This 40 hour FPS is a magnificent journey, during which you will walk the streets and subways of New York City, Hong Kong, and France, explore the Paris catacombs, and infiltrate maximum clearance military bases like Vandenberg Air Force Base and even Area 51. You can even use a fire extinguisher to extinguish fires. Deus Ex features one of the most interactive environments of any game, and this isn’t exclusive to loose objects being physics objects, but any computer and various things like vending machines and cigarette machines and newspapers you can use. the pace being totally dictated by the player, how you can kill practically anyone at any time as long as you actually have the means to do so, maps don’t blockade you with invisible walls. The freedom you have in how you can act, e.g. Deus Ex offers more freedom of choice than every FPS game out there (at least those that are not actual RPGs, so this excludes Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines and Fallout: New Vegas), more than most full fledged RPGs even. You get to choose your actual name, and as with Geralt of Rivia in The Witcher games, you can push his alignments one way or another, but you don’t come close to having the absolute control of his personality that a real RPG requires.īut both of these games not being real RPGs doesn’t make them any lesser. You play as JC Denton, codename for a counter-terrorist agent working for the United Nations Anti-Terrorist Coalition (UNATCO). It certainly borrows from RPGs but ultimately it really isn’t one, similar to The Witcher games though it comes closer to being an RPG than those. People call Deus Ex an FPS-RPG hybrid, although that is not exactly true. ![]() ![]() The gameplay of Deus Ex is by no means flawless, but its overall design and its strengths easily elevate it to the top tier of FPS, and one of its biggest gameplay issues has an extremely simple permanent resolution. This list isn’t written in any meaningful order, I’ve just decided to go with chronological order according to their release date. Hopefully this list will continue to grow. With that in mind, let us get started with our list of just three games. You might be wondering what constitutes excellent gameplay design? This really depends on the genre, the subgenre, and the specific direction of the game, so for the most part it can only be evaluated on a game specific basis. Such games are so rare that we were only able to come up with three, all of which are featured in the aforementioned article on best video game stories. This article is dedicated to these rare gems, games with excellent and ambitious gameplay design and execution along with excellent writing quality. But what’s even more rare than those two things are games that combine both top notch gameplay and top notch writing quality. It is even more rare to find a game with excellent writing quality, so we have written an article on the subject here. In most game genres, it is rare to find a game with truly outstanding gameplay.
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