The game is also known for its relatively active modding community. In 2004, Eidos released Project: Snowblind, a Spiritual Successor that began life as Deus Ex: Clan Wars until Invisible War sold poorly. You follow JC Denton, a rookie elite UNATCO operative, who eventually becomes tangled in a conspiracy plot involving The Illuminati, The Knights Templar, Chupacabras, Greys, black helicopters, genetic design underground labs and rogue AIs. Terrorist groups are capitalizing on the increasing desperation of the common folk, and their increasing activity urges world governments to create the United Nations Anti-Terrorist Coalition (UNATCO).
The only known 'vaccine', Ambrosia, the distribution of which is tightly controlled by Orwellian government agencies, merely delays the inevitable. In the dystopian near future, a deadly plague known as the Gray Death has befallen mankind. The PS2 version was made available on the PSN Store, as a PS2 Classic, on in Europe. A PS2 port, titled Deus Ex: The Conspiracy, was released in spring 2002. It was released around the summer of 2000 for Windows and Macintosh. Deus Ex is an award-winning First-Person Shooter/ Immersive Sim with RPG Elements (or a first-person RPG with shooter elements, as some fans would argue) developed by Ion Storm Austin (a division of, yes, that Ion Storm) and published by Eidos.
