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The non-linear construct meant every team member had their own thoughts on what should be in the game, and that in turn led to frosty working conditions.
There were hundreds of things like that. When DX was finally released in , it was virtually unrecognisable from the game that was originally conceived. And yet Warren believes that the most important gameplay elements were still intact in the finished game.
I wanted each player to tell his or her own story, in the context of a plot we created, in a world that seemed like our own. Upon its release, the team were unsure what to make of their creation. There was definitely that feeling of, 'Hey, we just might have a hit here.
Warren too was nervous: "I remember talking to the team when we were done, saying. Needless to say, people got it - they got it m a big way. And yet strangely for such a phenomenally successful title there have been few direct clones.
These days the risks are higher than ever before. One late game coming in over budget can spell curtains for a rising studio. Warren agrees: "Most developers are too smart to try to tackle the stupidly difficult problems posed by simulation-driven gameplay and player-driven experience. In the end, it's easier, and in some ways more compelling for game developers to author player experience, the way movie-makers or novelists control their users' experience.
It's certainly easier to craft powerful emotional moments in more traditional, linear story games. For an actual cyberpunk adventure in the same mould as DX we'll probably have to wait for none other than the sequel Deus Ex: Invisible War. And after that? Will the DX series still be around in ten years time?
I think we'll keep building on the DX gameplay concepts - introducing more compelling human characters through better non-combat Al and more facial and body language-driven emotion as well as even cooler, more freeform stories. Heck, there are a million problems to tackle before gaming matures as a medium. I just want to be a part of helping it grow up. And do you know what. We want you to be a part of it too. In fact, right now at a folk music festival in deepest Dorset there's a man wearing bells on his ankles who can think of nothing he'd like more.
Now that's a wider audience. Put simply, there is no way the first-person shooter can prosper without gameplay becoming more sophisticated. With the tweaking of Daikatana at a critical stage, it's a wonder that Ion Storm have time to do anything else. Still, somehow they've found that time and Deus Ex is the result.
Set 50 years in the future and ten minutes before the apocalypse, this incredible-looking, first-person RPG is shaping up into one of the most exciting prospects of the year. You assume the role of a secret agent who becomes embroiled in and Files type conspiracy. The plot includes such delights as secret government organisations, deadly plagues and the quest for an antidote known only as 'Ambrosia'. A major slice of the gameplay centres on 'nanotech' enhancements and a plethora of hi-tech tools allowing you to warp around the planet at your will.
Deus Ex sounds like the closest thing yet to System Shock 2. Here's hoping. A few issues back Charlie and Steve wrote a feature about realism in computer games. What they essentially said was that reality, rather than fantasy, should play a much more widespread role in our everyday computer-gaming lives. They said that with the advancement of 3D acceleration, our gaming environments should begin to echo our everyday surroundings and that this association with well-known motifs would bring a sense of familiarity and bonding unseen outside a Saving Private Ryan screening for the overs.
In short: that realism was the key to creating a truly immersive gaming experience. And not only did they say that, but they also went as far as citing Ion Storm's forthcoming RPG, Deus Ex, as the game most likely to prove their point - that real is better than, uh, Unreal.
Lead game designer and co-director of Ion Storm Warren Spector is the man behind Deus Ex and, from what we know about him already, he is someone who is obsessed with the issue of realism, story-telling, technology advancement and gameplay design.
His past works include Ultima Underworld, one and two both astoundingly far-ahead of anything else at the time , System Shock ditto , Wings Of Glory, several games in the Ultima series, and Thief: The Dark Project which he left half way through to join Ion Storm. To some extent, pretty much every one of these games has pushed the boundaries of acceptable gaming realism to its limit. In the safety of a darkened room somewhere in the darkest depths of London, Warren Spector starts Deus Ex for us.
He speaks quickly, passionately emphasising his words and shuffling his feet in excitement while the game loads. In short: he's really into it, and it shows. That's a much more accurate - oh damn" We wonder what happened. Shitl Sorry. I accidentally fired the gun trying to show you what I wanted to show you. He re-loads the level, pointing out that Deiis Ex starts off in New York on Liberty Island to be precise passing through Hong Kong, Paris and various other exotic locations that are, at present, top secret.
This game is huge - I mean it's, like, really large, and the story is very convoluted, so we're working with our testers to make the game flow. AI problems are easily tweakable, but where we do have a problem is when a player comes to a point in the game and says, 'I don't know what to do next -1 do not know where I'm supposed to be going.
So what sort of clues are we likely to find in Deus Ex? Obviously, conversation plays a huge part in Deus Ex. We have over , lines of dialogue, which is We have over lines of dialogue devoted to context sensitive situations, so the player will know whether he's been noticed or not. We have a device called the Info Link, which I'm going to show you in a minute.
Your boss can get in touch with you anytime - he's seeing through your eyes. We have emails, newspapers, books, public bulletins, computer terminals, data cubes, which are a bit like floppy disks I guess it is possible to drunk-walk through the game.
There is literally never a case where there's only one way of finding something. We give you multiple opportunities to entice you away from blindly shooting your way through the game. Back to the experiment with the sniper rifle and we're confronted by shaky cross hairs aimed at a man's head. I'm not touching the keyboard or the mouse, but look how it shakes.
What do you think the odds are of hitting that guy? We tell him that practice makes perfect. It's a case of accomplishing game goals. You solve a puzzle and you get given skill points, which you allocate to certain skill areas. Now watch That didn't work Oh, it did. Right, now I am a master rifleman," he gestures down to some numbers at the bottom of the screen. Curious, we ask how long it will take to progress from Bill Werbnyuk Canadian snooker player who drank ten pints of beer to steady his snooker arm - Ed to Steve Davis Csteady as a rock - Ed.
You can generalise your skills and try to be pretty good at everything, or you can say, 'I wanna be very, very good at one thing. We asked Warren if it was possible to make it through the game without filling everyone full of bullets?
I almost hate to admit this because it's a failure. Next game we'll solve this problem -I couldn't figure out how to do it this time There are certain characters who will be invulnerable - unkillable - up to a certain point. After that we say, 'Go ahead if you want - kill them. I really wanna tell a cool story and if a critical character dies in mission two, they're not going to be there to communicate critical information for mission six, and the game falls apart.
I'm going to solve that problem soon. I don't know how to do it yet Warren, still targeting his unwitting victim inside the now rock-steady cross hair, hits the left mouse button taking the poor guy's head off in the process.
At last, we're getting somewhere. He continues, "Without the skill I would have had no chance to do that - not at that distance. But that's the way the whole game is set to work, right? You decide what you want to be good at. If I decided that I wanted to be the best rifle shot in the world I'd concentrate on that, on weapon modifications to reduce recoil, give you a laser sight, or increase your clip capacity. In this game you'll even be able to personalise your guns.
Was he going to include weapon degradation, like in System Shock 2? I loved System Shock 2, but weapon degradation is a bad idea. But Warren's not convinced.
The idea is to let players make a plan and execute it. Having your weapons degrade just makes it harder to have fun. A keystroke later and we're looking at what we presume to be the inventory. It's a huge flamethrower, which he uses to torch a few hapless guys in the vicinity.
You'll also notice how much slower I'm moving now, because of the weight of the weapon? If you wanna be the guy with the BFG, you're not gonna be rocket-jumping in this game, pal Ah, but does the flamethrower get lighter as the fuel runs out?
This is a prison breakout mission. You start off in a cell and there's this one character that's been dogging you from the first mission.
She's been taunting you and hating you and really giving you a hard time - she's called Anna Navarre. He messes with a panel and escapes from the cell. And I'm crouching, I don't make a noise when I'm crouched. She drops to the floor like a sack of spuds and Warren turns his attention to something else in the room. There are a number of ways I can approach this situation. If I had grenades I could destroy it and then it won't activate an alarm or that turret. Since I don't have any grenades I'm gonna use this device Warren activates the device which, depending on your skill level, allows rudimentary hacking of various electronic devices.
He quickly bypasses the camera. Now let me show you some other things, only this time with advanced skills Warren's eye-opening demonstration continues for some time, and it soon becomes apparent that Deus Ex is shaping up to be dare we say it? But hold on, then we realise this is Ion Storm we're dealing with - anything could happen. Well, despite Ion Storm's much documented trials and tribulations recently, we are happy to report that development of Deus Ex has been relatively smooth and trouble free Touch wood - Ed and an almost finished version is now in the hands of play-testers.
Amazing eh? So, all going well you can expect an exclusive review in the not too distant future. The last time we saw Deus Ex we had Warren Spector, the game's designer demonstrating it for us. Warren's involvement in some of our all-time favourite computer games, namely the Ultima Underworld series, had us in a state of anticipation, the likes of which we hadn't experienced outside a second visit to the clap clinic.
But, from what we can remember of that morning, the game looked great and seemed like a hell of a lot of fun to play. We say 'looked' and 'seemed' because at that point in time Warren wouldn't let us near the controls. Oh no. He would constantly say "I'll show you this", or "let me show you that". He wouldn't let us anywhere near the keyboard. But we didn't hold it against him. In fact, nobody in the room held it against him because we were witnessing the birth of a red-hot classic, and didn't need to be at the controls to work that out.
Now, with Deus Ex having slipped to August, Warren and his chums have seen fit to lend PC an almost finished beta of the game - to test for ourselves, until Eidos finish recording all the European voices and the game is finally shipped. Where do we start? From the outset, when the game boots up to a rousing James Bond-style theme tune, it feels as if you're about to take part in something dramatic and special.
The story of a modern-day 'super spy' on the trail of a highly-organised terrorist organisation, Deus Ex mixes first-person shooting action with cyberpunk-style role-playing in a contemporary setting, so you are immediately thrust into a fairly familiar environment the game starts off in New York , with a fairly familiar set of controls.
After an initial briefing, and the supply of the game's lower-end weaponry, you're then sent out to neutralise a group of highly-organised terrorists who have taken over the Statue of Liberty. Once you're on your own, creeping around the darkly-lit gardens surrounding the statue, you quickly begin to realise that Deus Ex is not all shooting. No, far from it. As a high-tech cop, you have a number of useful built-in devices at your disposal.
These devices, called Augmentations, are upgraded and added to as you complete objectives in the various missions. On top of this, there are 11 different skills to expand and improve upon, from Computers for hacking and stuff to Environmental Training resistance to hazardous environments , and everything in between. Basically, you start off as a weedy shadow of a supercop, and by the end of the first couple of missions you become a lean, mean killing machine - very much like something out of Terminator.
Which is just as well, as even on the easiest setting, Deus Ex is something of a challenge. If, like us, you storm terrorist territory on the first few goes without a thought for your own safety, you won't last two minutes.
The guards patrolling the area will not only open fire if they see or hear you, but they will also run for the nearest alarm and alert their cohorts who will promptly return and kick your head in if you do not dispatch them first. Staying low is a priority. There are not only guards, but robots, gun emplacements and surveillance cameras to deal with too. So, from the word 'go' you've pretty much got what seems like the whole world up against you - and it's scary.
The learning process in Deus Ex is one of initial trial and error. Stepping out from the shadows to a lit area in front of a terrorist will almost certainly award you with a bullet in the head, no matter how far away they are. If they see you, that's it - all hell breaks loose. Stay in the shadows, however, and crawling instead of running will allow you relative invisibility. And if a terrorist's back is turned and you creep up behind them, they'll not know what hit them when you finally find the nerve to slit their throats.
It's a messy business, but essential if you are to get anywhere near your objectives. That said, you don't have to kill people to get on in Deus Ex - in fact, in some places you actually get told off for using unnecessary force.
A handy 'electro prod' does a good job of incapacitating the enemy without actually killing them, and you can carry and hide bodies h la Thief to avoid further detection.
But, in our opinion, the sniper rifle is a much safer bet because you can use it at arm's length and hide until the alarms are turned off. Call us cowards if you like, but caution never hurts. There are also tons and tons of other cool weapons, devices and gadgets to find and use, all of which become available as and when you need them. Picking locks and bypassing electronic devices are some of Deus Ex's other cool gameplay features. Lock-picks and MultiTools are used for these purposes respectively.
Multi Tools can even stretch to disabling surveillance cameras and opening electronic locks, but are in short supply so must be used wisely. And they're not the only thing in short supply either.
Deus Ex isn't Quake. There aren't floating, revolving boxes lying around waiting to be picked up on every comer. Every bullet counts, and running out of ammunition in the gravest of situations will no doubt feature heavily in your first few hours of play, like it did ours.
But these furious, desperate occasions - when you alert the whole level to your presence by accidentally disturbing some pigeons, or by using the shotgun by mistake -are immense fun and can be quite an adrenaline rush.
The terrorist AI in these combat situations is already turning out to be quite exceptional, so God knows what it will be like in the final game. Throw a grenade into the middle of a group and they scream, before scattering in every direction to avoid the blast. Enemy groups also work together, catching you in a deadly crossfire if they can, while one runs off to raise the alarm and bring more troops in. Injured felons, if they know they're beat, will run away from you. But, unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a way of cuffing them, which would have been nice.
Is it too late to include it guys? Still, we can't have it all. Well, yes we can have it all. From what we've played of Deus Ex so far, we reckon we're gonna get pretty much everything we ever wanted in an action role-playing adventure of this sort, and much, much more. With Deus Ex, the game's designers have essentially combined the instant hook of a First-person shoot 'em up with the complex story of an adventure game, the depth of character of a role-playing game, the atmosphere of something like Thief and the ease-of-use and sophistication of System Shock 2.
If the truth be told, Deus Ex does play startlingly similarly to the above mentioned Looking's Glass classics in some places, and Ion Storm Austin will curse us for mentioning it - but sod it, it's true.
And it's not exactly a bad thing either, as both Thief and System Shock 2 are bona fide benchmarks in their own right, so anything remotely similar is fine by us. After playing this nearly-finished preview version to death and beyond, we're itching, nay having kittens, in anticipation of the finished article. So fingers crossed for the full review in the next issue. Phew, where to start? Having spent pretty much every spare hour playing DeusEx this week, taking notes as we went, it came to our attention that we'd compiled and collected so many thoughts and feelings about the game that we'd run out of paper in our notepads We played and played, and wrote and wrote.
And wrote and wrote and wrote! What we're trying to say at such an earty point in this review is: Deus Ex just has loads in it. Deus Ex, as those who've been following its progress with interest will already know, is a deep, complex and involving game, mixing hardcore role-playing elements with full-on first-person action and talkie, adventure-y bits.
In fact, it's an amazing amalgam of various gaming genres brought together in a superbly wholesome way. And, erm, Unreal Tournament. So that's a lot of games all rolled into one, then. A lot of great games, for that matter But what the creators of done so well is collect and refine all of the best bits from all the above mentioned games and make them work extremely well together in their game.
And we do mean extremely well together. From our point of view, the most important feature in a game of this sort is the story. The game might have the best graphics, best engine and best interface ever, but you aren't going to give much of a toss if the story doesn't appeal to you.
Nothing you don't already know, but you're still probably wondering what we're getting at here The tale of a cyber-enhanced secret agent on the trail of death dealing terrorists, Deus fir plays out one of the most fulfilling and interesting storylines ever created in a computer game.
Although there are obvious parallels to be drawn from films such as RoboCop and The Matrix,. Deus Ex actually manages to cobble together a rollercoaster of a plotline that equals those in both of the aforementioned movies. A bold claim to make, but one based on rigorous playtesting and re-playtesting, and one that we think is right, too. Deus EX opens with a tantalisingly vague intro sequence. You're shown characters, unknown to you until later in the game, engaging in techno-babble conversations about a killer plague called the 'Grey Death', and about some cure called Ambrosia being in short supply.
No matter how hard you concentrate when you first watch this exquisitely scripted 'inengine' cut-scene, most of it is guaranteed to go over your head. But that doesn't matter, because what the designers are actually doing is planting seeds in your subconscious, ready to be germinated as the chapters of the story unfold. Not before long, it transpires that, for the duration of Deus Ex, you are to assume the role of Mr JC Denton - a state-of-the-art, straight-from-the-smelting-plant government agent with the ability to enhance himself with cyber implants, skill enhancements and a huge array of fancy weapons and gadgets.
The first level being his first proper 'live' mission ever, JC finds himself being monitored by the government top brass from the outset. Once all the cut sequence chatter dies down and the black 'sim-u-lo' widescreen bars disappear from the screen you find yourself on your own in one tiny corner of a huge 3D representation of New York City's famous Liberty Island. Down the docks, to be precise.
It is here that Deus Ex's superb cast of characters begin to introduce themselves. First up, JC Denton's brother - your brother - who provides you with weapons, intelligence, and advice to be cautious, is a gruff bloke with a neat goatee beard and the same attire as you. A voice in your head, or rather, a government operative transmitting instructions directly into your modified brain, also makes his entrance at this early point in Deus Ex.
Alex Jacobson, a young kid, barely out of high school, is his name, and as the story meanders along, his comments and suggestions adapt to your style of play. In the real world we'd probably call that cheating, but, in Deus Ex.
And when head shots count, as they do in this game, you need all the help you can get. As the concept of Deus Ex slowly permeates your brain, the cast of characters slowly reveal themselves, and the plot finally begins to make some sense, you'll find yourself completely embroiled by JC Denton's exploits.
Until you reach the point where you actually begin to think you're him. No - really. Deus Ex is that involving. During a particularly tense scene you may find yourself gritting your teeth as a robot death machine howls "scanning area! Or you'll feel the dull thud of a sniper's bullet as you nonchalantly stroll into an open area. In tact, the whole feel of the game is pretty much spot on. Creeping around little finger outstretched, pushing down the 'crouch' key At first it's tough.
Even on the easiest of the four skills settings. When you first start the game, dashing around like a madman, trying to play Quake, it doesn't take long to realise that the sound of your footsteps alone can give you away to the enemy. And that includes at a distance, or from behind a door. Untimely death abounds if you stomp your way around the place, so the instinctive reaction to change from walking or running to a silent crawl becomes ingrained in your brain trom an early stage.
It's a great feeling - sneaking past guards who are seen picking their noses or scratching their arses, unaware there's a highly-trained killer kneeling beside them Getting into the process of hiding, scuttling from cover to cover and silently dispatching sentries and guards is a slow process initially, but there are certain things to consider while you're at it.
Firstly, sentries and guards follow set patrols. They may pause for a while, sometimes even conversing with I other sentries and moaning about "not seeing any action" , and will also investigate if they hear something, but generally it is possible to work out their routes. Secondly, you should always watch where you're going. Startling a flock of pigeons by inadvertently walking close to them can alert nearby guards. As can wandering into a limpet mine. Or staggering in front of a surveillance camera.
Searching around - preparing tor an attack before going in - is essential. Thirdly, that a silent takedown with an electro prod, or razor-sharp knife is often better than shooting everyone in sight. For two reasons: it saves you ammo in short supply on harder difficulty settings , and also alerts less people to your presence in the area. If you stick to these hard I and fast rules, combat in Deus Ex quickly becomes very compelling. Although Deus Ex utilises the famed Unreal engine to bring this exquisite combat system to us, the weapons in Deus Ex aren't very Unreal-like in look or feel.
Of course there's a sniper rifle, and this one can be modified and upgraded to startling effect. Recoil, clip capacity, range, base damage, reload time and ammo type are all changeable. Plus a silencer can be added for even better effect. On top of skill as a marksman can also be honed to perfection by spending skill points on the discipline, thus steadying your snooker arm as you aim at a faraway target.
Which helps immensely. And you can apply that to pretty much every other weapon in the game, apart from the crazy specialist ones such as the Plasma Gun and the GEP Guided Explosive Projectile Gun. There are two types of shotgun one rapid-firing , numerous pistols and a whole host of grenades to play around with, and that's without even mentioning the swords Yes, despite coming from the same development house Ion Storm , Deus Ex manages to beat Daikatana at it's own game by bringing ludicrous swords into the equation.
The end result is totally hilarious, but still in keeping with the spirit of the game. For the first few missions things go the way you'd expect them to. You meet your partner, an aggressive female cyber-babe called Anna Navarre; your boss - a moustachioed desk jockey with a penchant for red ties; an alcoholic helicopter pilot who ferries you about the place; plus many, many other freaks, hookers, pimps, killers and junkies, all in the course of your duties.
Conversations are both natural and logical, with every eventuality seemingly covered. Some conversations give you multiple choice replies, allowing not only the interrogation of suspect characters, but also the chance to model your own personality in light of your gaming style. Be aggressive and trigger happy and the other characters in the game react to that some even try to reduce your ammunition supply if you're popping too many people!
Whether you kill him or not is down to your own better judgement, but you don't get a great deal of time to make the decision and the game suddenly turns on its head once it's been made.
At this point in the review we do find it a little difficult to continue without giving too much of the story away, as what transpires is not only surprisingly original, but also incredibly well structured. Deus Ex is an action role-playing video game. Set in a cyberpunk-themed dystopian world in the year , the story follows JC Denton, an anti-terrorist agent given superhuman abilities by nanotechnology, as he sets out to combat hostile forces in a world ravaged by inequality and a deadly plague.
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