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Game Designers Name Influential Movies

Posted by simoniker on from the peewee's-big-adventure-sadly-missing dept.

Thanks to 1UP for their 'Cinemascope' feature interviewing notable videogame designers about their favorite movies. Many favorites have relatively little direct connection to the subject's videogame work, but Viewtiful Joe's Hideki Kamiya chooses (TV series) Kamen Rider, and the piece elaborates: "Both Kamen Rider and Viewtiful Joe are about normal guys who become masked superheroes, right down to using the phrase 'Henshin!' (Japanese for 'transform'") to power up." Warren Spector also points out: "Everyone thinks Deus Ex was influenced by The Matrix, but it really wasn't. Other than throwing in a cheat that textured the world with a bunch of scrolling green text, a la The Matrix, we were so far along in development on Deus Ex by the time we saw The Matrix there wasn't time for us to have been influenced even if we'd wanted to steal stuff!"

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  1. The subway station? by superultra · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You know, I seem to remember reading shortly after Deus Ex came out that they built the subway station level in homage to the Matrix. Does anyone else remember reading this?

  2. Re:Screen shots/video clips? by Geam · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I snapped a couple shots from random saves I had handy. The "Matrix Code" does scroll in a constant downward motion. Picture one is of the servant in Everett Morgan's house. Picture two shows the Nanotech sword on the right of the screen with two scientists and a bot.

    Quite a coincidence that I happen to get to the end of the game the same day an article comes up about it!

    http://jeberg.freeshell.org/deus-ex/de-matrix1.jpg
    http://jeberg.freeshell.org/deus-ex/de-matrix2.jpg

    -Jason

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    "Mostly harmless."