I was hopeing to get some of my gamer friends togeather and make a overhaul on the origional Deus ex. Adding new augs, guns, items, enemys, side missions, skills, and a overall retexture or uprez. For sure swiming ang Enviornmental training will be changed to be more useful. Swimming will now be called Endurance and increase the amount of hit points in JC Dentons torso and enviornmental training will increase the hit points in his limbs. One of the new augments i'm planing is a shoulder gun which can automaticly attack enemies while active but it quickly zaps energy.

What are your thoughts and ideas?

Sounds like you and your friends really have your work cut out for you.

For adding side missions, you'll need to change the game maps themselves to add your NPCs and possibly new areas; there's a mod (still in progress) called Deus Ex Revision, which is creating new single-player maps based on the original maps. They might be amenable to adding your content. They've

As for gameplay rules changes, there are tons of those already. Most notably, Shifter and Deus Ex Enhanced. Yukichigai, the author of Shifter, is a friendly guy. You can probably ask him about how to go about it.

There's also Off Topic Productions, who did the spectacular total-conversion The Nameless Mod. http://www.offtopicproductions.com/forum/

All of what you're talking about requires significant skill and work; you need "gamer friends" less than you need designers, programmers, and, if I'm reading you right, graphic artists. At any rate, good luck, but you should be aware of the mods that exist (see the stickied thread in this forum), including mods that already aim to adjust graphics, like HDTP and New Vision.

Belive me I have gamer friends. And i'll probably fold in other mods for compatability and such. I've already abandoned any notion of a uprez