Walton Simons

Walton Simons is a fictional character in the computer game Deus Ex. Simons is the Director of FEMA.

Simons is voiced by Tom Hall, a well-known game designer.

Walton Simons' intials are W.S. - the same as Warren Spector's, the lead designer of the game. The character was named after Wildcards author Walton Simons, one of Spector's longtime friends.



Walton Simons is the director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and a member of Majestic 12. He is a close associate of Bob Page, and a very powerful man in Washington. He was appointed to FEMA through Page's manipulation of an unnamed senator infected with the Gray Death, and went to work immediately. A strictly cloak-and-dagger man, Simons was the first higher-up on the scene after JC Denton's capture of NSF operatives in Battery Park, though his interrogations consisted mostly of numerous shotgun blasts to the chest.

The third successful nano-augmented human (After Paul and JC Denton), Simons is widely considered one of the most dangerous men in Majestic 12. Although he claims his augmentations are strictly for increased ability for work in FEMA disaster relief, he often travels with an escort of two or more Men in Black, and he is rarely seen without his plasma rifle close at hand.

Simons also has a tendency to continually charge his bioelectric reserves, keeping them at 100% efficiency. This causes an intermittent sharp pain behind his eyes. Early in the game he is advised by Jaime Reyes to quit that habit.

Walton Simons