A good Deus Ex sequel would have Warren Spector style nonClinear large levels like Liberty Island

I love the cyber-hack bit. The panicked look on the mook's face as his own arm points his pistol at his head.

The latest issue of "PC Gamer" has a article on the game. It's going to be a prequel to the original game and part of the plot will revolve around discrimination against augmented humans. Also the RPG elements of the game are being removed in favor of a more action shoot em up style game play.

It's probably going to be an Assassin's Creed, Splinter Cell, etc sort of game. Those games are still alright without RPG elements. So little games have RPG elements, I mean, come on, Nobody makes those anymore. You can't expect it to NOT be a shooter. As long as the story is alright and the atmosphere is good, it should be ok.

Square Enix does not, and never has, made RPGs. They make JRPGs, which I think is definitely a separate genre.

that, or any kind of cyborg becomes evil as part of the package.

maybe because its a performance enhancement, and as the olympics wants to push, performance enhancements are not sportsmanlike, m'kay.

But since Facebook has gone and eaten our collective brains we need not fear computer technology anymore.

Right. We need not fear our technological overlords just like a dead man doesn't need to be afraid of dying. He's already dead and we're already slaves to the machine...

Technology is a tool. If you have issues with how the tool is being used, address them directly. Don't blame the tool for the hand that wields it.

At E3, Warren Spector, one of the lead people behind the original Deus Ex and now in charge of making an impressive Mickey Mouse adventure, said he was content to not be making a "sunglasses-at-night" video game. Others still make the stuff.

The original Deus Ex from the year 2000 was supposed to be the thinking man's first-person shooter, one that could support varied play styles and reward equally gamers who approached a conflict gun-barrel-first and those who prefer stealth or smooth conversation.

Its successors, the latest of which is Eidos' 2011 prequel Deus Ex: Human Revolution, bear the responsibility of offering gamers that flexibility of choice. They also, because it helps, should be cool. "Cool" as in: The lead character might wear sunglasses at night.

Human Revolution was therefore shown, fittingly, in the dark at E3, in a theater where the game's developers zipped through a two-part demonstration. The game takes place in 2027 the not too-distant future. Hero Adam Jensen is up against conspiracies woven in a dark and electrified over-developed urban landscape that resembles the metropolis of Blade Runner.

The focus of the E3 Human Revolution demo was gameplay. In the first part, we were shown the game's conversation system. In executing his quests, Jensen can talk to many people, with some multiple choice options directing the conversation. A developer described the conversations as battles, your verbal offense against others' defense. The player looks for an opening, a psychological weakness and might apply pressure or disagree, maybe back off and see where that gets them. You don't pick dialogue so much as you pick moods.

The second part of the demo showed the action parts of Human Revolution. This sequence took place mostly outdoors to showcase varied ways to approach an important warehouse. The sky was sunset-orange but hazy with smog. Jensen, we were told, can be armed with various biological augmentations that might help him turn invisible or have added strength. These are the kind of character-customization options with which a Deus Ex player might be familiar and each would allow the level to play out differently.

The action was controlled from a first-person perspective, though frequent snaps to cover switched the game to a third-person view. The third-person view was also used during signature moments of attack, of which we were told there were many and that they were dynamic. One had Jensen stabbing a security guard from behind, another ripping through a wall to snap the neck of the guard standing on the other side. One more featuring him dropping from the rafters to repel a salvo of machine gun fire right back at the circle of soldiers who fired it at him.

We were shown computer-hacking, which lets Jensen scope out an area, hack robots, deactivate enemy turrets or program them to attack the bad guys. Prefer offense? All guns in the game can be augmented. The showcased weapon was a crossbow that pinned a bad guy's head to a wall. As Jensen approached the warehouse we were told there are multiple ways for him to get inside it, befitting the Deus Ex tradition of player choice.

Inside the warehouse, Jensen fought a mech. A rocket launcher upgraded with heat-based targeting took it out. Outside, he got beat up by a tough burly man with a machine gun for an arm.

The game looked slick already, but because it is a game about choices and complexity, it is hard to assess at an E3. The mechanics look sound. The graphics look nice. The systems are in place for gamers to play Human Revolution the way they want to. But does it come together well? We need more time with it to tell.

At the end of one of his Mickey Mouse demos at E3, Spector said he might someday be ready to make another "sunglasses at night" game in his career. He is not, of course, involved in Human Revolution. Perhaps this is the kind he needs from time to time. Perhaps it is something we need too. Human Revolution is our next try at one. It is set for release next year, but hopefully we can see much more soon.

There is leaked bad cam footage of that demo floating around. I hope we get to see official high quality videos posted soon. I have high hopes for this game, since if it's good and sell well, may get us other cyberpunk games in the future.

I bought Deus Ex and Deus Ex 2 on Steam today, they had a sale (got both for €5). I already had Deus Ex in a box somewhere but was good to get them on easy access. Started playing again with a few mods to get full resolution and AA/AF etc. And the game is still awesome even if the graphics are 10 years old.

I bought Deus Ex and Deus Ex 2 on Steam today, they had a sale (got both for €5). I already had Deus Ex in a box somewhere but was good to get them on easy access. Started playing again with a few mods to get full resolution and AA/AF etc. And the game is still awesome even if the graphics are 10 years old.

Exactly, Deus Ex is imminently playable even without graphics. I feel like graphics are a total red herring that I wish people didn't care about.

Agreed. Good graphics are just icing on the cake. Hell, I still play some DOS games because they're still fun. Story, solid mechanics, and character development make a game good. Unfortunately, since video gaming is a mainstream thing now, most games are rushed out, sloppily put together, and/or have no effort put into the writing. I miss the days of the basement programmers for whom games where a labor of love.

Gameplay>graphics look at dwarf fort or stone soup. Hell I wish more games took the same idea of gameplay above graphics.