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Joshua Wolens

The secret stand-out of Sony's State of Play was the bizarre resurrection of Deus Ex's PS2 version

JC Denton emerges from the Helios supercomputer.

Alright, alright. I know this website is called PC Gamer. I am aware, dimly, that the PlayStation 5 is not a PC. A thing that is even less a PC? The PS2. And yet here I am, writing about a PS2 game arriving on PS5.

In my defence, that game is literally Deus Ex, the most PC game to ever PC game, and I can't help but find its arrival on Sony's iconically yonic console via PS+ (its not-quite-Game-Pass service) alternately mystifying and thrilling. In the year 2025, Sony has resurrected one of the most curious artefacts of the early 2000s—the version of Deus Ex that Ion Storm ginned up for the PS2 back in 2002.

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