7 Video Game Boss Fights You Can Secretly AVOID

3. Gunther Hermann & Anna Navarre - Deus Ex

It's hard to replicate just why Deus Ex was a massive deal in the industry, considering just how many titles have since taken and ran with its core ideas.

The art direction and script were instantly engaging as emerging video game royalty Warren Spector was given a blank cheque by DOOM's John Romero to create whatever he liked, but the result was one of the first hyper-interactive game worlds to get lost in.

We talk "your actions have meaning" today, but Deus Ex writ that large. Not one but two otherwise tough bosses - Gunther Hermann and Anna Navarre - could be completely bypassed by having conversations. Truly, it was unheard of, and is still notable today.

In both cases, you needed to find these androids' "kill-phrases", done by talking to partner Jaime Reyes about Gunther's, and hacking two specific computers to piece together Navarre's. These would give you "Laputan machine" and "Flatlander woman" respectively.

Protagonist JC Denton will bust these phrases out next time you encounter both androids, leading to them questioning how you could possibly know, before both exploding on the spot.