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Deus Ex
Year: 2000
Developer: Ion Storm
The mission to kill NSF leader Juan Lebedev aboard his 747 in one of the early Deus Ex stages seems like a straightforward part of your job as an up-and-coming UNATCO goon: Get on the plane, waste the guy, head home for celebratory drinks. And for a lot of players, that’s exactly how it went. JC Denton is a cutting-edge killing machine, after all.
But Deus Ex is a chatty sort of shooter, and so even though I didn’t have the non-lethal options that were on the table in your first missions, I had a chance to converse with my target a little bit before I pulled the trigger. Eventually, though, my hard-ass boss Anna Navarre busted in, really pissed off, and demanded that I quit goofing around and do my job. She also warned, helpfully, that if I didn’t, she would. One way or another, Juan was going down.
That’s how it seems…