Deus Ex - Invisible War Explored

Thanks to GameSpot for their hands-on impressions of Deus Ex: Invisible War, the long-awaited PC/Xbox FPS from Warren Spector and cohorts at Ion Storm Austin. As well as confirming the game will ship in time for Xmas, the article illuminates: "Invisible War will give you more freedom of choice than the original Deus Ex", claiming that, similarly to the prequel, even non-violent conduct will work: "...one tester has made it about two-thirds of the way through the game without having acquired so much as a pistol." Boomtown also has a new preview of this "pivotal title" for Eidos.

Comments

Re:But how will it look??

[Flamerule]

I can just hope that this version will be on par graphically.

Well, Gamespot says

Finally, the graphics in Invisible War have been a topic of great interest, and for good reason: The game looks superb. It uses some of the same advanced graphics techniques, such as real-time lighting and shadowing and character normal-mapping, that make the forthcoming graphical juggernaut Doom 3 look so impressive.

I'd judge that quite a bit ahead of par. Take a look at some of the screenshots (here, here, etc.). They're not quite Doom III -- but that's not possible (unless you're Valve, I guess).

The last one was a good game that seemed to be, at the time of release, a generation or so behind the rest of the pack in terms of graphics.

Make that "great" game, but yeah.

I don't believe that graphics make the game, but they should at least be passable.

Right. They were passable.

Re:Cost analysis for Deus Ex 2

[damiam]

XBox: $180
Decent TV: $370
Deus Ex 2 for Xbox: $50
Total: $600

Compare to:

Already have dual Athlons - $0
Current mobo is fine - $0
Got a gig of RAM - $0
Got a Radeon 9700 PRO - $0
Deus Ex 2 for PC - $40
Total - $40

Playing DE2 with a mouse at 1600x1200: priceless.