Deus Ex 2 Screenshots

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  if doom 3's gameplay is as good as DE1 i will be surprised. : jvox
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    It will probably easilly be better, I don't imagine that it won't be. : archon
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      Heh.. you have a lot of faith in Doom3 which to me is unfounded... : Ryoko
      • I agree completely. But let's not start a flamewar for two (hopefully) completely different types of game : gl2 drivers
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        no way, it's all completely well founded. I have enjoyed almost every single one of id's previous FPS gam... : archon
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          You're right, it won't be as good as Doom3. It'll be leagues better... : Ryoko
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            Well, Deus Ex has no nunified lightning system. But who cares? And in the gameplay and Art department, i ... : perforierer
            • I mean UNIFIED lighnung system ;) : perforierer
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              Wrong. It does have unified lighting, exactly the same way doom has. : gl2 drivers
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                Sure? I never heard Ion Storm saying something like this. dynamic lighting yes, but nothing about an unif... : perforierer
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                  Yes, they (ionstorm austin coders) talk about it fairly often on the gda algs mailing list. : gl2 drivers
                  • Well that sounds really interesting. So they are at the top of the technica developpment!l : perforierer
        • sorry man. I love id games but dues ex was probably my favorite game for gameplay. id games are fun yes b... : TheTick

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• those look a lot better, wow : ease_one
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  403 forbidden : neo69
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    Drag and drop the link to the address box : SlamDunk
    • k, works that way, i guess the server is picky about referrers. : neo69

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• It's also important to pick and choose which textures need to be hi-res and which don't. : Fred Garvin
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  OMG Someone with a clue! I don't believe it! Personally I think it's fucking miraculous the great... : gl2 drivers
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    Isn't that why you have a detail slider so users with lower-spec machines can tone the game down to suit ... : wunderbred
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      Yes and no. Within reason, for texture sizes you can do that, but as you see below doing high res tex... : gl2 drivers
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        "...why didn't id create insanely high res textures and extreme polygon detailed maps and models for quak... : jet-poop
        • Here's hopeing heh I can see it now, Doom3 being remade with the Doom4 engine. Using the original supe... : Renalicious
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    ...than again this Chris Hairdrove guy ain't exactly in the same ballpark as Carmack - so his comments ab... : localhost
    • No he's not, but he knows what he's talking about and Unreal2 will have significantly lower system specs ... : gl2 drivers
• Exactly. In a good game no element exists without influence and understanding of all other elements. Gest... : haikeebah!
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  Just to be nitpicky 512x512 is 4x the area of a 256x256 texture, so unless you are implying the bump map ... : Mantle
  • well they probabaly do diffuse, bump, and spec. bump without spec looks icky. I don't know if they are ... : ease_one
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  Hmm, do you think people will start coming up with ways to 'compress' shaders? Seeing how everything righ... : Renalicious
  • I don't think so. Carmack at the moment is pushing for cards what can do literally 100's of passes each f... : gl2 drivers
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  hey can someone tell me the point of defraging a hard drive.. i done it a few times now but i dont get wa... : kurumba
  • it just arranges your files on the hard drive so they're not divided in little chunks all over the place.... : Juicemann

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  Heavily modified Unreal engine, yes. : gl2 drivers
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    they could probably rename it by now : Silent1
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      They're calling these builds Unreal Warfare (also rumoured to be a game of the same name) : xenoeye
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        ion storm did their own modification to do bumpmapping and real time lighting, it wasnt a code update by ... : Maarten Goldstein
        • Ion Storm says now: it's not the Unreal Engine anymore, from a technical standoint. Kint Hudson on VE Fo... : perforierer

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  I'm game! :D what was your favorite level? : tomservo
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    Hong Kong... definitely Hong Kong. : psychobean
    • Totally agreed, Hong Kong was absolutely FULL of atmosphere with tonns of little goodies around. : Decepticon Matrix
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    My favorite was, interestingly enough, the first level: The Statue of Liberty. I played that level a hu... : kek
    • yes :) despite what anyone says, that IS a great level. I think it might've been interesting to maybe r... : tomservo
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    Knights Templar cathedral in Paris. : the archvile
    • I'm with you. Climbing on top of the buildings was fricken fun =) uberstealthy and whatnot : TheTick
    • Paris was my least favorite part of the game actually. Still one of the only games I am glad I finished... : ease_one
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    So many great parts to pick a favourite. Hong Kong was so cool, the first time that level loaded up wa : gl2 drivers
    • yeah you pretty much summed it up. :D : tomservo
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  I can't wait to play as Alex; should prove to be interesting. : the archvile
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    i hope you're wrong about that, or maybe if you werent you would've USED A FUCKING SPOILER TAG : tomservo
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      He doesnt mean Alex Jacobson--it's a different one. : n0v4
      • i know what one he meant. : tomservo
      • AlexD! : gl2 drivers
    • it's common knowledge that you play as alex. : jvox
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  I wonder which ending they'll use when seguing into the sequel? : kek
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    already discussed by Spector: 99_endgame3 (Illuminati ending). Endings 1 and 2 had too much finality to : the archvile
    • oh so now you use one. >:( : tomservo

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• and the new gf card!! : Silent1
• i want some new info on quake IV : clain
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  Halo 2 DNF we'll see : ariakaz
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    HL2. oh sure you laugh at me, but you watch, you'll see!! : johnny rotten
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      HL2 should be no problem. The first one was all cut and paiste levels so they should have 2 out in no tim... : Cygnus X-1
      • Half Life 2 dingus. : johnny rotten
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        If you mean Halo 2 then you should probably put down the crack pipe. : Fred Garvin
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          /puts down crack pipe. Funny thing you guys knew which game I was talking about. : Cygnus X-1
          • Because it's a lame common criticism of an awesome game. : Fred Garvin
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  Hehe... all those games minus DNF. ;) It's gonna take another two years at least!!! Cause 3dRealms is ... : flameagle
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    Nah George has pretty much said outright he thinks Duke'll look better than anything else except maybe Do... : johnny rotten
    • well re-writting your renderer every 5 minutes will do that : ease_one
    • e gads ! the last time i heard DNF was UT1 tech base. yikes good luck : r1cola

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• I looooooove you. : gl2 drivers
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  From the 30 minutes my friend and I played at e3 on a buggy alpha, we still talk about it to this day. Th... : Ryoko
  • I am jealous :( : Poor Yurik
• /standing ovations Well put, good sir. : Mad Brahmin Disease

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• and you probably will buy doom3 on release day.... but anyhoo... SYSTEM SHOCK 3 must be created. fuck ... : XerXes
• what about thief3...? : jrgn

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• Fat? : Mad Brahmin Disease

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• hmm....game isn't released yet..... : clain
• Agreed. Sharper textures are needed in all new games. : wunderbred
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  meh.. doom 3 is gonna suck, its just the engine we want. deus ex 2 will have gameplay, doom3 only has th... : yautja
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    doesnt matter if they are still using "3Dfx textures" (256x256). Its fuckin 2003 for crying out loud, ... : XerXes
    • i wouldnt care :) im after gameplay, too much time is spent on graphics : yautja
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    Nah I figure Doom3 will be a pretty sweet FPS. Linear and straightforward with basic shooter gameplay bu... : johnny rotten
    • im with you on that one. but anyway, the textures are up the the artists, not the writers or code pusher... : XerXes
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  Did you happen to notice some of the bad textures in the Doom 3 shots? Apparently not. Anyway, I'll wait ... : Fred Garvin
  • the doom textures appear to be really small. Who knows what they will be in the final product though : ease_one

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  i doubt it will happen. I'd love to see the original team develop another sequel but LGS have split and E... : disembodied potato
  • Yes your right. :-( : Ten4
  • If that's the case, I hope warren comes up with some whole new game after DX2/Thief3 are baked, that's in... : gl2 drivers
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    take a look at this, it looks like EA doesnt own it anymore. http://www.computerandvideogames.com/r/?news... : -=ZooL=-
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      that is cool. irrational did a hell of a job on ss2. : jet-poop
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        actually it was looking glass :) : -=ZooL=-
        • Irrational developed the game for looking glass. : n0v4
        • nah, irrational developed it. looking glass had their name on the box because it was their property. k... : jet-poop
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  yeah SS3 would be amazing, SS2 is right up there on my top 5 games : Razenhat
  • Yes in the top 5 games on my list also. No matter who owns the rights it has to be done right or not at ... : Ten4

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• bioforge was a pretty cool game, i thought. good atmosphere. and it was fun to be able to beat up on th... : zipr

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• Shooting out all the lights in a room made it pitch black, so much that you couldn't see anything without... : Ryoko

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  Yeah, you need to try a LOT harder. : Ryoko
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    you're ugly : zorak
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      I'm sorry, but I just don't think you have what it takes to be a successful troll. The effort is nice, bu... : Ryoko
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        its people like you that are going to ruin deus ex 2 for the rest of us : zorak
        • That's better... you're still really grasping at straws though. Maybe you should go all out and tell us h... : Ryoko
• HAHAHAHA YEAH. no. : gl2 drivers

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  What do you mean in the exact same way? : archon
  • I mean, there was a reason they had them arranged the way they did. The guy (maybe one of you know him - ... : Ryoko
• There's something about black market augs and I don't think you can mix them with standard augs or someth... : gl2 drivers

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• but the conspiracy stuff has gotten kinda cliched now with the help of the x files - and really were else... : marku5
• God forbid a game break away from the standard cyberpunk stuff! : perlicles
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  i think they even stated it wont center around conspiracy stuff. : -=ZooL=-
  • i think it would be cool if they stated there was no conspiricy, and in the end there actually was. ke... : gibmiser
• Ugh, I think you guys are misinterpretting the conspiracy thing is DX2. I could be wrong but I understood : gl2 drivers

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  not soon enough! : Turd Ferguson
  • anyone got an actual anwser? : disembodied potato
• The publishers around putting out an april '03'ish date, but judging by what everyones saying theres no w... : gl2 drivers

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• you're denying yourself infinite pleasure! just look at the shots, and then try to imagine playing throug... : marku5
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  They look good. Very good. Very nice lighting and models and stuff. And that's all I can say without s... : UtilityMaximizer
  • Ive looked at ONE... it looked fantastic. Here was my reaction: http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=536368... : tomservo
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  Can you explain why? It's not like they reveal anything. : Mad Brahmin Disease
  • Because he loves the game so much he it all to be new the first time he plays it. He = smart, I wish I co... : gl2 drivers
• And you're right, the characters look like they belong to the talking heads and cutscenes in Fallout. : Mad Brahmin Disease

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• D'oh! Newb'd! : punchdog

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• Deus Ex 2 and Doom III :) : Decepticon Matrix

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• you'd rather have the faded monochrome blurriness that was seen in RTCW and Red Faction? : the archvile

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• Low res textures? Looks little blurry, i agree. Hmm, but if that is true and these are low res textures, ... : perforierer