When the original science-fiction role-playing game Deus Ex came out for the PC in 1999, the world stood still because the Wachowski Brothers had just released The Matrix movie and gamers all over the world were pining for something that would make them feel like Neo and play as good as System Shock 2. Magazine reviewers worldwide praised Warren Spector’s effort as a great award-winning science fiction PC title, which is interesting, considering that John Romero’s highly anticipated Daikatana, also by Ion Storm, bombed not too long before that.