Oh wow, they made the 2000 video game look like a 2006 video game!

Man, I’m always glad if the Deus Ex franchise gets some attention but this really doesn’t convince me at all. It just looks like one of those bad HD mods many games had in the early 2010s and it totally kills the aesthetic style the game had. DE1 is deserving of a Remake, not a soulless reskin.

Deus Ex Revision is already the most faithful remaster IMO.

If they’d released this in 2006 I might have thought it was an improvement, but in 2025 if I’m going to play something that looks like ass I’m at least going to play the original.

lol, I read this before I watched the trailer and it’s spot on

I’ve got a sneaking suspicion that at least a few opportunists in the industry are selling a shit AI remastering tool to studios with IP to monetize.

The peak of our civilization

*Most of it actually looks better, not that I’ve gamed much recently. It’s that first swipe on the character that looks comical. The actual swipes on the gameplay look much better.

Huh, I didn’t know about this. Thanks for mentioning it!

If you’re on pc you’re better off using the original and surreal 98 to play in UE 5 with modern textures lighting and vr support less than $20

It’s a Remaster. That’s to be expected.

The point is to invest minimal money and efforts, because this is not a mainstream game. Its a Remaster to make it a little bit better looking, update controls and other background technology to run on modern operating systems and hardware. And really, that’s okay. If the price is okay, off course.

Nope… The original game still works well… There is no need for this… And I don’t trust who is making this

I honestly think they made it look worse than the original.

I still think the original actually looks great, in a way. It’s so low-poly it transcends into a sort of retro-futurism. Who needs spheres when a dodecahedron already looks totally techno? Gunther’s face looks so angular you could cut glass with it? Well of course, he’s basically a robot!

Oh, so like a fan-made HD mod. Stretching Unreal 1 to its limits.

Pre order today

Oh.

That’s a commercial remake.

Oof.

For sure! It’s also on Steam and GoG if you want to try it out.

Yeah I don’t disagree. The artistic direction is appropriate to the limitations of the time, as opposed to a few recent remakes like this one where the artistic direction consists only of “add more polygons and get it shipped”

Okay… That doesn’t exactly look great…

It doesn’t make it a little bit better looking though, that’s the point everyone’s making.

If you like or do not like the new look, that’s your right to decide off course. But you can’t speak for everyone and say that’s the point of everyone. My point btw was that its normal a Remaster is not improved too much, as that’s what a Remaster is. Although I think it is improved here, but that’s not my main point. My main point is that all the other things are improved and made compatible with current generation, including current gen features for controls and maybe trophies, and other stuff. A Remaster is not just about the textures and resolution.

How does Deus Ex run on the PS5?

Which is saying something.

Unreal 1 games are consistently fugly in ways that are difficult to place. Their design can be great - but the rendering, bluh. There’s just enough specularity and fake reflections to remind you most textures are chalk-flat. Detail noise improves big blurry texels, but your brain feels that band-gap between high and low frequency. Character animation, especially faces, feel very… Hanna-Barbara. There’s just enough physics for you to understand why Half-Life 2 blew people’s dicks off.

Basically, the engine has all the idiosyncrasies of a 1990s console. You know at a glance. And this PS2-ass parody of a mid-2000s HD remaster manages to feel more dated.