Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Deus Ex 3

While I have played a ton of games throughout the years, the list of games that I have actually finished, is by comparison quite small. I just get bored easily. Unfortunately, most of the games out there get bogged down by poor story, play mechanics or level design somewhere in the middle of the experience, and are just not worth finishing. Few games have managed to hold my attention all the way through to the end, and they have ultimately made it to my top 10 list. Yes, I think I have only ever finished like 10 games. That being said, I didn't finish the original Deus Ex...but i did get pretty darn close to the end, which is a major achievement in my book and serves to qualify the game as officially awesome; and at least in my top 20.

In contrast, I could barely get through the first few levels of Deus Ex 2: Invisible War, a horrible excuse for a sequel that succeeded in doing little more than alienating the majority of the game's original fan base.

The sequel was just awful! And I even made my friends watch me play...until I threw down the controller in disgust and backed away from the TV in horror. I had gotten stuck in an area with no way out. I had also somehow let loose a miserable alien creature that proceeded to walk around mumbling and crying and generally stumbling into walls due to the poor pathfiniding mechanics. Come to think of it, the creature was a startlingly realistic portrayal of just how I felt at that exact moment. How profound!

That horrible memory, now 4 years in the past, still lingers in my mind. I'm sure that similar nightmares haunt the minds of many a Deus Ex fan that had the misfortune to pick up and play Invisible War.

It's these same fans that Eidos Interactive is hoping to win over with their latest installment in the series, Deus Ex 3. The game has been in development at the Montreal studios of Eidos for quite some time, and has a long way to go still. Currently I'm being cautiously optimistic, but at the same time preparing myself for complete disappointment and utter horror.

If you are brave and still want to learn more, check out this post on the official game forum. And here's a look at the teaser trailer as well:

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