wikdwarlock on 9/10/2006 at 16:10
So, I've played about 1/3 of the way through Deus Ex, and then stopped because I got some new games. Now I've begun playing Deus Ex 2: Invisible War, and I'd like to know the plot line of the first Deus Ex so I can understand things better. I know there are alot of ways for the plot to go, so I can't expect anyone to have the full story with all the optional paths, but I'd surely appreciate it if someone could point me to a plotline for the story. I know that I could just read through someone's walkthrough, but I don't need 20 pages of "push this crate" and "open this door" stuff 'cause I'm not going to go back an play the original Deus Ex anymore.
Does anyone have a suggestion?
Qaladar on 9/10/2006 at 22:03
I have a suggestion.
Take the IW cd out of your drive and drop it in the trash. Then finish Deus Ex and pretend you never saw IW.
Ziemanskye on 10/10/2006 at 09:42
Give it a break.
IW wasn't as good as the first one, but that doesn't make it auto-trash.
Beyond that, well:
[SPOILER]JC Denton finds out his employers at UNATCO are controlled by clandestine Illuminati-Spin-off group Majestic12, who unlike thier parent group want everyone to know who is at the top of the food chain when they literally take over the world.
JC Leaves, and joins - at least briefly, though it depends on which ending you choose - the Illuminati to stop Majestic12 from releasing the ultimate in Surveilance AI technology on the world. The main endings for the game go:
You choose to allow the sentient AI Helios to merge with your nano-augmentations, becoming something other than JC, but with the whole world only a thought away.
You choose to blow the AI (and area 51, Bob Page, your clones and possibly yourself) up, destroying the root of the global communication network, causing long-range data transfer to be a thing of the past. A kind of technological Dark Age.
You kill Bob Page, leave the AI doing it's thing more or less unmonitored and join the Illuminati, trying to piece together a better post-Majestic12 world without the general public knowing what happened.[/SPOILER]
Invisble War, as set 15 years later, tries to incorporate all three endings, and drops a lot of the things might have tied back in favour of it's "New World" vibe, meaning you don't really need to know much about the original (or even that there was one) to make sense of it - it just means you have to wait to be told rather than pre-guessing the story arcs.
AxTng1 on 14/10/2006 at 01:51
Excellent summary, Ziemanskye.
Additionally:
[SPOILER]As part of his adventures, JC Denton must locate the Illuminati leader Morgan Everett. Despite Deus Ex's famous non-linearity, there is only one way of doing this. JC has to infiltrate the Paris Catacombs and meet a Terrist leader called Chad. Chad probably directs JC to the location of his friend Nicolette DuClare, who disliked her mother's Illuminati practices. After discovering a secret and not very well hidden data sniffing station, JC is contacted by Morgan Everett.
In this part of the story, Chad is very useful to JC and even mentioned a friendship with his brother Paul. Who would have thought that Nico and Chad would hook up, try to kill the Dentons and set up the old system again? How very sneaky these Illuminati types are :rolleyes:[/SPOILER]
