Great news! Starting next week, the gaming masterpiece Deus Ex will be free to play on Gametap, as long as you’re willing to sit through some commercials. A marketing effort for Deus Ex 3, perhaps? It doesn’t matter.

Deus Ex is far from flawless. The models were clunky and the animations were stiff even for a 2000 game, and the voice acting was apparently done by whoever happened to be around the office at the time. (The accents in the Hong Kong section of the game are painful, but the voicework does have some moments of hilarity, like J.C.’s deadpan delivery of the line “A bomb’s a poor choice of weapon for close-range combat.”)

Despite all this, Deus Ex remains one of the best damn games of all time. It’s just plain fun to take your nanotech-enhanced secret agent through a world where all the conspiracy theories are real. Plus, lots of games talk about multiple ways to play, but Deus Ex is one of the few that successfully pulled it off.

I’ve got a copy of Deus Ex arund somewhere, but it’s either lost or the CD is scratched all the hell by now. I’ll be taking this opportunity to get myself a fresh copy. My old computer was far too slow to play the game with a combat-oriented character, so maybe I’ll take it for another spin, Rambo-style.

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