I finally finished Deus Ex<\/i> last night. It’s a computer game set in a cyberpunk near-future world where civilisation is completely dependent on a futuristic Internet, and a mysterious plague is ravaging humanity – though it seems to leave the rich and powerful untouched. You begin the game playing a technologically enhanced special agent for the UN Anti-Terrorist Organization, but by the end, your loyalties have shifted multiple times as you learn more about what’s really going on and who you really are.<\/p>\n
At the end of the game, I had three choices (each of which would require some difficult gameplay):<\/p>\n
1) Join myself to the master computer controlling and monitoring the Internet (as the bad guy had intended to), and help it rule the world, hopefully with compassion and ethics…<\/p>\n
2) Shut down the computer and help the Illuminati (who aided me through the latter half of the game) to return to secretly manipulating humanity from behind the scenes – with myself as one of the new puppeteers…<\/p>\n
3) Destroy the computer in a manner that would wipe out the future Internet and give the world the chance to choose its own path out of the mini-Dark Age which would follow.<\/p>\n
In the end, I chose option 1. But boy did they leave themselves plot threads for Deus Ex 2<\/i>, now in pre-production…<\/p>\n
And of course, the week I finially get Deus Ex<\/i> out of the way, Ambrosia Software releases Escape Velocity: Nova<\/i>. If one owns a Macintosh, the Escape Velocity<\/i> games are the kind of games where you sit down to play 30 minutes and come out of your hypnosis 6 hours later; this one’s the newest, prettiest, and plays under OS X…<\/p>\n
…what’s that, Blizzard? You say you expect the OS X version of Diablo 2<\/i> to be ready in about 15 days? Nooooo….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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