Deus Ex 2??

[silent_08]

I absolutley loved Deus Ex....I couldn't stop playing it until I had it beat. Word has it that Edios already has a team together working on Deus Ex 2. Anyone else hear something like this?

[Scuttle]

Originally posted by silent_08
I absolutley loved Deus Ex....I couldn't stop playing it until I had it beat. Word has it that Edios already has a team together working on Deus Ex 2. Anyone else hear something like this?

Eidos announces use of next generation Unreal® Engine
San Francisco, CA. (June 20, 2001) - Eidos Interactive, (NASDAQ: EIDSY), a leading worldwide interactive entertainment publisher, today announced that ION Storm Austin has been granted a license to use Epic Games' next generation Unreal® Engine in their upcoming games. ION Storm Austin used an earlier version of the Unreal Engine technology in the creation of the award winning, genre-bending, first person shooter, Deus Ex.

"Everyone at Epic is extremely proud of Deus Ex and the tremendous job the ION Storm team did in creating an innovative and deep gameplay experience using our technology," says Mark Rein, Vice President of Epic Games Inc. "We're excited that they're now developing games with our next generation Unreal Engine technology. ION Storm Austin represents the absolute highest standards in game design and we're thrilled to play a role in their very exciting future."

"The decision to use the original Unreal Engine as the foundation for Deus Ex was one of the best decisions we made," states Warren Spector, project director on Deus Ex and Studio Director for ION Storm Austin. "Unreal, and the Unreal toolset, freed us to focus on design issues rather than technology which, given the response of public and press to the game, seems to have been a good thing! Looking ahead to future projects, the next generation Unreal Engine offers us even more power, even better tools and a multiplatform solution."

The Unreal Engine, created for Epic's revolutionary 3D first-person Unreal computer game, provides programmers with a complete solution for software development -- from design and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to texture mapping and networking. Recently, Epic announced several new features that made the updated Unreal Engine the obvious choice for ION Storm Austin, including a hardware-accelerated, large-scale terrain system; hardware brushes for quickly creating scenes 100 to 200 times more detailed than current levels; and texture compression allowing for enormous, photorealistic textures up to 2048x2048.

"Unreal allowed the Deus Ex programmers to add in all the rich RPG features the team wanted in minimal time." States Harvey Smith, Lead Designer on Deus Ex and now a Project Director for Ion Storm Austin. "Also, the Epic team was super helpful to us, sharing a wealth of high-impact technological and visual-aesthetic technique."

The Deus Ex team's experience with Unreal was important to Randy Smith, another of Ion Storm Austin's Project Directors: "The Unreal Engine is the perfect starting point for development. With its rendering power we can craft environments in higher detail than ever before, and its flexibility allows us to shape it into an ideal tool for implementing our unique gameplay."

Press Release from www.gamespress.co.uk

So yes, it's in development. If you want the screenies that came with it then I'll fetch them for you, chances are some gaming site has them.

[Snoop Dogg]

Bah crap on you Scuttle you beat me yet again. Starting to get fustrated here lol.

Anyways something you didn't mention was rumored release dates are Q1-Q3 2003

[Jr916]

is it really that close i thought it would be in development forever

[Snoop Dogg]

It has been in development since early 2000 so not really short term development if you ask me .

P.S. The official name just got released today for the game on VoodooExtreme.com

It will be called Deus Ex 2: Invisible War

[Spiff1333]

It will be shown at E3.

[jstnomega]

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/10714

[dighn]

Originally posted by Snoop Dogg

It will be called Deus Ex 2: Invisible War

it's a sequal, sweet

and I like the name already

[RangerBFK]

another <yawn>

But maybe they will take their heads out of their @ss and make a decent game this time

[dighn]

Originally posted by RangerBFK
another <yawn>

But maybe they will take their heads out of their @ss and make a decent game this time

what have you got against deus ex?!

[Snoop Dogg]

Originally posted by dighn


what have you got against deus ex?!

Way too loyal to Quake is what he has against Deus. Eidos chose the UT engine instead of the Quake III

[RangerBFK]

faus j00!!!

[dighn]

Originally posted by Snoop Dogg



Way too loyal to Quake is what he has against Deus. Eidos chose the UT engine instead of the Quake III

They are going with the UT engine again this time. I guess he'll hate it too LOL D:

[RangerBFK]

duh