[Sharlin]

Username checks out.

But yeah, a sneak-thief has the opportunity to enjoy the most of the game's writing, in the form of emails, data cubes and overheard conversations, and they just make the world so much richer and more alive. And all the allusions and pop culture references, the excerpts of the (real) novel The Man Who Was Thursday, exploring several themes common with the game, as well as the (fictional) thriller Jacob's Shadow, whose plot seems to reflect the player's progression in the game. No doubt Deus Ex is one of the most intellectual, literary video games of all time.

For a trip down the memory lane, I recommend Stephan Lavavej's¹ Deus Ex page which, among other things, contains an annotated copy of all the non-dialogue text in the game: https://nuwen.net/dx.html

¹ Some of us may also recognize his name as the principal maintainer of Microsoft's C++ Standard Library implementation.

[djur]

I think everybody should try a less subtle playthrough at least once, though. Some of the game's funniest dialogue results from playing JC as a big dumb oaf.