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The idea of playing Deus Ex entirely in third person has always seemed like sacrilege to me. I like my immersive sims to be, well, immersive, to let me see the world through my character's eyes and interact with it up close and personal.

Yet having just watched several videos of Deus Ex being played in third-person, I've realised that perhaps I wouldn't be so averse to experiencing Ion Storm's cyberpunk classic from a new perspective. Especially if that new perspective involves Max Payne -style bullet dodging.

Over the last week or so, YouTuber dan2091 posted numerous videos of a WIP third-person mod for Deus Ex. Presumably, the mod is dan2091's own creation, though there's no information in the video's descriptions or the channel more generally to confirm this.

In any case, the various clips demonstrate that there's more to the mod than a simple camera shift.…