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Deus Ex 3 Announced

Posted by Zonk on from the machina-goes-without-saying dept.

Gamasutra has the news that Eidos is already hard at work on a Deus Ex 3 . The company announced this project along with a brand-new studio in Montreal, which will be developing the title. "According to [General Manager Stéphane D'Astous], Eidos Montreal currently has two groups -- a Q&A group that is responsible for testing all of the developer's games from anywhere in the world, and an in-house development team that D'Astous says has just passed proof of concept for Deus Ex 3. 'This game was very highly rated at its release in 2000, and we have this great huge mandate to do the third one, and everybody is very excited,' added D'Astous"

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  1. I'm surprised by Schmapdi · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    After the disaster that was Deus Ex 2. Both it and Theif III were ruined by simultaneous Xbox development a few years back. Here's hoping they make a Thief IV at some point as well and don't screw it up.

    1. Re:I'm surprised by toad3k · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      Thief 3 was horrid. The graphics sucked. Every stage was broken into 10 different subareas with a 30 second loading screen in between each. Even on the hardest settings, there were times I would walk right up to a guard and breath on his eyeball only to elicit, "Hello? Is anyone there?" Inane puzzles with no plot to speak of as far as I could tell. That game fucking blew. I only spent $20 on it and I still felt ripped off.

      In fact when I heard deus ex was using the thief 3 engine, I decided not to buy it, and based on a cursory glance at the rest of this forum, I made a wise choice.

      Thief 2 was actually many times better than 3 on many levels despite being archaic. At the very least, it had competent level design.

      And on topic, while I'm happy to hear they are making a new deus ex, I'm not holding out any hope of it being good. Because when it comes down to it, what can they do in an fps that hasn't already been done to death? Nothing really. The game is doomed to be mediocre out of the gate.