Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

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!"

4 of 33 comments (clear)

  1. The Deus Ex / Matrix easter egg ... by Reez · · Score: 5, Informative
    ... is described here

    1. Search the Deus Ex .ini files, especially user.ini, and find a key that is never mapped to anything. Remap all instances of it to "Talk."

    2. Run DeusEx.exe with the command parameter -haxor. i.e., use the Run Program option in Windows to open it from its directory with the command: DeusEx.exe -haxor

    3. When it is loaded, open the credits. A game does not need to be actually started at first.

    4. On the credits screen, type thereisnospoon. Make sure that you get it right, as the only feedback is the sound of clicking keys. If you make a mistake, exit the screen and try again. If you get it right, you'll get the message "May Tricks Mode Enabled."

    5. Load a game or play a new game. Everything will be made out of scrolling green numbers, like in The Matrix.

  2. i never thought deus ex.. by gl4ss · · Score: 4, Insightful

    to have been influenced by matrix.

    like, come on, what clearly matrix like does it have? sniper rifle? nanotech-supersword? nanotech upgrades, cool jacket? 'terrorists' trying to free the world?

    i always thought that deus ex just ripped off from cyberpunk(in a good way) literature, but not once i thought that "wow, matrix like" when playing it. it doesn't even take influence from john woo & hk-action films like matrix and max payne do.

    though, the last game more than influenced by a movie i played was total crap(pirates of the caribbean, the movie was ok but the game SUCKS)

    --
    world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
  3. 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?

  4. 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

    --
    "Mostly harmless."