Every design choice here matters - not a single oversight in terms of it's gameplay, letting the player have complete freedom from top to bottom. It's ridiculously enthralling, with the game shifting and morphing with your own play style while at the same time allowing for a ton of replay value.

Deus Ex is a game about a lot of things: how censorship grips the media, capitalism's slow eroding of society, and how a corporation can manipulate governments for it's own monetary purposes, but it's also, first and foremost, a rock solid, nigh perfect RPG. It's so good and deserving of pretty much every level of hype that has been put on it.