One of my favourite strategy games ever. The mixture of Civilization type turn based strategy and empire building with real-time strategy in battles has always made me love the Total War series. But my love of classical history has always made this my favourite in the series. I can't wait for Rome II.

It's both funny and sad how I only just played this game earlier this year and yet it's easily one of the best RPGs I've ever played. Why can't there be more games like this? With writing that is mature but never insults my intelligence. Characters that are interesting despite the fact they're trying to kill you. A skill system that is easy to understand but not so easy they must think I'm an idiot. Does everything have to be watered down these days?

Regardless, this game is one of the best RPGs I've ever played, so buy it. And apply the latest unofficial patch, with Plus content.

It's really quite sad what happened to the video game industry. In 2000, Deus Ex came out offering the kind of level design and story telling that was unparalleled at the time. It would throw you into a setting, with nothing but an objective and it was your job to figure out how you were going to execute it. Options were available for almost every approach you wanted to take and it would all fit perfectly into the story. It was a sign, a promise, of what games could do heading into a new generation. And yet today 99% of games either put you on an ultra linear path throughout its story or give you an open world involving limited but completely inconsequential choices.

Deus Ex is amazing. If you don't already own it, buy it. Now. If you do though, how about a reinstall?