the logo is a stylized 'DX' (and the Deus Ex: The Conspiracy logo even more so) and the extensions of map files are. Additionally, with the upcoming release of Deus Ex II, there will be people who will play the new game without having played the first (unthinkable, I know), and this page will help clear up the mysteries of Deus Ex's universe.ĭeus Ex is officially abbreviated as DX, not DE (e.g. It is the author's opinion that Deus Ex has the most detailed and immersive story yet seen in a game, and this page is dedicated to examining that story in detail. While it did not have a spectacular launch, gradually people noticed what Deus Ex was all about, and it began accumulating awards and gathering attention. Hence, no one saw Deus Ex coming, and most distrusted the company it came from. Ion Storm Austin was a wholly separate division created when Romero offered Spector and his team funding with no interference, and it was delivered as promised. At the time of Deus Ex's release, Ion Storm was rather disliked by the gaming community, because of a controversy involving Ion Storm's founder John Romero and his four-years-under-development game Daikatana. It was an unprecedented game before it, first-person shooters were nearly uniformly devoid of plot even the well-respected Half-Life was just 'the finest implementation of a game on rails anybody has ever done' (according to Warren Spector, of course). It was released in June 2000 by Ion Storm Austin (ISA), and its unusual name was taken from the Latin phrase 'deus ex machina' ('a god from a machine'). The greatest game ever made.ĭeus Ex is an immersive role-playing first-person adventure shooter simulation, or a reasonable approximation thereof. A different style for a different game.Īt the end of the page is a summary of all acronyms used, in case the first usage of the acronym goes unnoticed. Unlike it, however, this is intended to be readable straight-through in a linear manner. This Deus Ex Story page is, in spirit, descended from the Marathon's Story page. Creating a really believable world is just insanely hard Site Info:

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