Deus Ex Information Page DX1 is one of the alltime best games
Download this amazing game for 10 lousy bucks right now! Start playing today! You'll thank me (really, you will, I'm not just saying that)! The gameplay, the story, the dialog, the sheer depth of game design will floor you. Yes, the graphics are not as good as today's stuff, but I've tried many games with flashy graphics and lousy gameplay.
Note - For easy reference, this page generally (but not always) refers to the original Deus Ex as DX1 and the sequel Deus Ex - Invisible War as DX2.

Watch the whole game like a movie. Someone played all the way through and posted it on youtube: Deus Ex movie

Excellent DX write-up at Wikipedia.org	Planet.DeusEx.com - Good DX info & file resource. Active maintenance of site stopped in Nov. 2004	deusex-machina.com - excellent info. By Feb. of 2005, one of the few surviving DX sites
DX1 analyzed - Stephan T. Lavavej's detailed explanations of real-life tie-ins to names and literary references in the game		More analysis - All the game's literature excerpts in sequence.
DX writers rock! A lot of time is spent talking about the technical aspects of good games, but the real driving element is story, and story demands good writers. Playing DX1, I loved the spoken dialog but I especially appreciated the world detail and backstory I could find by reading every newspaper, book or email I found.	sheldonpacotti.com - DX1 dialog writer Sheldon Pacotti slipped his site's address into an email seen in the game. His site includes photos of the game's voluminous script. He returned to head up writing on DX2, and was among the many Ion Storm employees let go after that game's release.
	nethack.org - Austin Grossman wrote additional dialogue for DX1, and he slipped in an email that included his name and the address for the game Nethack. It's a real game, currently on version 3; in the world of DX1 it's on version 54. Sadly, he did not return for DX2. His web site, which I don't think existed when DX1 was made, is frostgiant.com
	7crows.com - Chris Todd, DX1 dialog and in-game text writer, put an email in the game that included the address for his site. DX1 writing excerpts and his comments are included on the site. His work was one of my favorite parts of DX1. Sadly, he too did not return for DX2.
Theos Ek - comprehensive DX stuff, authored by the not-so-dead Walton Simons		Yet another site with the entire book The Man Who Was Thursday
The Man Who Was Thursday - The entire excellent book by G.K. Chesterton. You can't tell from the excerpts in DX1, but TMWWT is a metaphorical, spiritual story. Don't miss his The Everlasting Man, too.		The Man Who Was Thursday - A second site with the entire book
The Man Who Was Thursday - A third site with the entire book	Official Eidos site - distributors of the DX games (and that Tomb Raider gal, too)
DX 1 continuity bible - Great insider's look	LibertyCam - A live view of Liberty Island (simulated in DX1)	Liberty Island official site - You can see the DX1 version accurately reflects the real place.
Castle Clinton official site - See that the Castle Clinton you visited in DX1 accurately reflects the real thing, except the story required the addition of a gazebo in the middle.		The real Battery Park & Castle Clinton - see pix of the place you visited in the virtual world of DX1
DX1 free demo download at Game-Revolution.com	DX1 demo add-on - Free addition to the original DX1 demo.
Alexander Brandon's web site - composer of the excellent DX1 music	Alexander Brandon on FaceBook	Warren Spector reacts to DX being designated best PC game ever
Complete game credits for DX1 - Who made the game	Sheldon Pacotti talks about writing DX1 in this interview at speedy3d.com.	dxediting.com - Make your own DX1 maps/levels/mods
Official Ion Storm site - makers of the DX games.   Feb. 2005 - Ion Storm closes, so this link dies	Excellent DX1 page at pc.ign.com	DX1 detailed walkthru w/pix
DX1 screenshots1	Denton's Databank - Part of planetdeusex.com, this is a great collection of minutia about DX1
DX1 screenshots2	DX1 screenshots3	DX1 screenshots4
Wikipedia articles about or related to DX1
Deus Ex	JC Denton - the central character	Major DX Characters
Tracer Tong	Nicolette DuClare	Minor DX Characters
Chad Dumier	Illuminati	Organizations in DX
Knights Templar	Deus Ex Mods
Vandenberg Air Force Base	Area 51	Hell's Kitchen
Black Helicopters	FEMA	Warren Spector - game designer
The Man Who Was Thursday	G.K. Chesterton	Harvey Smith - game designer
Trilateral Commission	Alexander Brandon - wrote most of the great music	Dan Gardopee - music
Michiel van den Bos - music	Austin Grossman - writer	Reeves Gabrels, - music

Some DX1 sound wavs to download:
DX1 sound 1	DX1 sound 2	DX1 sound 3	DX1 sound 4	DX1 sound 5

Get that great Deus Ex 1 Music

I've played many games, and there are only a couple where the music floored me, and I was unable to imagine the game without the music. Those two games are Myst and Deus Ex 1. The majority of the DX1 music was created by Alexander Brandon. He returned for DX2, but told me he won't be doing DX3. Here's an Alex Brandon interview at music4games.net. DX 1 music also was created by Dan Gardopee, Michiel Van Den Bos and Reeves Gabrels.

Here are some ways to listen to the DX1 music (other than in the game itself):

• If you have the game, play the music straight from the game CD, with a free, downloaded player.
  Problem: The files in the Music folder have the UMX extension, and your media player won't play them.
  Solution: Download a player that will play them from ModPlug, Ashampoo (formerly Whisset) or WinAmp.
  Comment: The UMX format is sort of like a midi file, except the file includes instrument samples. Instead of relying on your midi program's instrument samples, the composer provides their own samples and thus has control over the playback sound. The trade-off is that a midi file is just a tiny data file, and a UMX file is big. The composer also can store multiple recordings in one file, reusing instrument and melody information as they see fit, which saves resources. The Ashampoo (Whisset) player seems to only play the first song, whereas ModPlug plays everything in the file. I forget what WinAmp does.
• Play the music straight from the game CD, without the need to download any player.
  Problem: The files in the Music folder have the UMX extension, and your media player won't play them.
  Solution: You can use cheat codes in the game to play any music on the CD. To learn how see the cheats page.
  Comment: You don't have to download anything. The game itself is the player. The downside is you must select and play tracks one-at-a-time. No playlists.
• Buy the official soundtrack CD. This is an option only if you can find someone selling the original Game of the Year (GOTY) edition CDs online. The current GOTY edition does not include the bonus soundtrack. This is the quick, easy way to get that cool music in an "official" format.
• Download MP3s of the music. Several themes from the game have been officially released for free download, and all the rest have been unofficially made available online.

First, the official, sanctioned, blessed downloads:

MP3s of ALL DX1 music are at the following:

DX1 MP3s 1

DX1 MP3s 2

DX1 MP3s 3

DX1 MP3s 4

DX2 information

Mail

This page receives some email response, but until now I haven't shared it. The following email's subject line made me laugh and feel appreciated, so it begins this section:

From : blair
Sent : Monday, July 3, 2006 11:47 PM
Subject : Deus Ex Page: You Are A God
I am writing to thank you for your website on Deus Ex, one of the last Deus Ex information pages left on the Web. Unfortunately in this day and age, where games are one big graphics rush to appease the shortening attention spans of gamers, there seems to be less and less room for games like Deus Ex, which make up for its lack of eye-blasting in mind-blowing story and gameplay. If Deus Ex was remade by Eidos with today's graphical technology, I am positive almost every gamer on this dirt ball of ours would pick it up and play. Games like Deus Ex need to be brought back from the bottom of the bargain bin!
Thanks again,
1239the
QLD, Australia.
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The composer of the original DX music responds to my email! Links added by me.
RE: lay some DX3 music on me!
From: Alexander Brandon (alexander@brandonfamily.net)
Sent: Sat 1/19/08 1:02 AM
To: 'Robert Fahey' (robertafahey@hotmail.com)

Ah Robert if only I could. Believe me it’d be great fun to delve back into DX. But I’m working at Obsidian and my music that’s game related will be written for anything coming out of that company.

However it appears that the trailer at least does a nod to the original soundtrack in a way that I think works well, so if they continue in that tradition I’d be pleased as punch. Hopefully I’ll figure out who is doing the soundtrack and start a bit of a dialogue. I’d loop in Michiel also as his UNATCO theme is overwhelmingly popular.

I’m glad you like the DX1 music. I’m starting to get really weirded out (in a good way) about how many folks enjoy the soundtrack. Almost as though DX is as worthy as System Shock as a great Warren Spector game soundtrack. I guess that was the bar really… SS was brilliant…

-Alex

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