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00:00Hi, I'm Warren Spector, founder of Ion Storm's Austin office.

00:09I conceived and directed the first Deus Ex game.

00:13I'm going to take a little time to tell you a little bit about what we're up to right now.

00:16But before we get to Invisible War, the sequel to Deus Ex,

00:19I'd like to start by taking a look back at the first game,

00:22what made it special to me and to the rest of the team.

00:25For one thing, obviously we were all gratified that it was

00:28as well received by the public as it was.

00:30Deus Ex was the best-selling game I've worked on in 20 years of being in the game business.

00:36And on top of that, it was critically acclaimed.

00:38It won over 30 Game of the Year awards worldwide, including a BAFTA.

00:42I got to hold the same award that Laurence Olivier held, which was kind of a thrill.

00:47Let's talk a little bit about what made the first Deus Ex game special,

00:51the ability to create a unique alternative game,

00:53the ability to solve problems the way you want to.

00:56You get to make this game the kind of game you want.

00:59It's not just a shooter. It's not just a role-playing game.

01:02It has elements of shooters. It has elements of role-playing games.

01:05It even has elements of strategy games.

01:09And yet, you put all those pieces together and it came out as something new and unique

01:14and very different in the world of gaming.

01:16So how do we top that?

01:17We want to take everything that made Deus Ex special and do more of it.

01:20We want to take everything that worked against the Deus Ex experience

01:23or wasn't critical and cut it.

01:25The Deus Ex play style, where you get to apply some common sense

01:29and decide how you're going to solve problems.

01:31We always thought that was a pretty mass-market idea.

01:33But we threw all these barriers to players getting at all the gameplay goodness we created.

01:38Our interface was unnecessarily complex.

01:41The terminology we used was a little too polysyllabic, you know?

01:48In Invisible War, what we're trying to do is make the game more accessible to a larger audience.

01:53We want a lot of people playing the game and getting at what we think makes Deus Ex special.

01:58On a more specific level, what we're trying to do is have even deeper character development.

02:07We're giving you even more choices about how you develop your player character.

02:11We're completely rethinking our technology.

02:14It's all new from the ground up and absolutely state of the art.

02:17The AI is much enhanced.

02:18I don't know that there's another game out there that can boast of a comparable collection of simulation elements.

02:24It's not just for the sake of technology that we're doing this.

02:27It's so, again, players can discover their own solutions to problems.

02:31They can figure out how they want to do stuff.

02:34They can shoot everything that moves.

02:36They can shoot nothing.

02:37They can talk to everyone.

02:39They can hack their way past problems using computer systems.

02:42They can figure out how to get past anything in the game the way they want.

02:46That's critical to us.

02:48We've got a really cool storyline that picks up where the last game left off.

02:53And it's still very conspiracy-oriented, very mystery-oriented.

02:59It actually starts 15 years after the first game.

03:02And one thing that you're not going to get out of me or anybody else on this team for a while is,

03:06which of the three endgames from the first game we're actually sequeling.

03:10We have an interesting idea about that.

03:12We're not telling anybody what we're doing.

03:14Let's go!

03:15Move!

03:16But it's 15 years in the future.

03:17The world, I will tell you, is in a sorry state.

03:21Nations and various religious orders are using terrorism as a tool to impose their will,

03:29to set things right in the world as they define right.

03:33Interestingly, you don't play J.C. Denton, the character from the first game.

03:40You play a person named Alex D., who can be either male or female.

03:44You play a trainee for a high-tech anti-terrorist organization.

03:47But, as you might expect in a Deus Ex game, you discover that things aren't quite what they seem.

03:52You're very powerful.

03:54You can create a character with the power to run 40 miles an hour and as fast as a car,

03:59or throw the car if you want to go that way, or move silently, or see through walls,

04:04or suck the life force out of dead bodies to heal yourself if you take damage.

04:09One of your first goals, one of your most important goals, is to find Paul again and find J.C. down.

04:16You have to go find the characters who you played and interacted with in the first game.

04:21So, you'll encounter a lot of old friends, a lot of old enemies,

04:25and at the end of the day, you have to decide who you're going to fight,

04:28who you're going to help, whether you're going to fight at all,

04:31and, as in the first game, what the world looks like at the end of the game.

04:34It's not about killing the evil bad guy. It's not about killing everything that moves.

04:38It's about, who are you in this world? How do you interact with this world?

04:43And, what do you want the world to be when you get done?

04:46Why don't we take a look at the introduction, where it all begins.

04:50Keep going on, keep going on, keep going on.

04:54Let's go.

04:56Come on!

05:09Come on!

05:10the infusion lab evacuated trainee gave the order myself what did you tell them i told them to run

05:40that's all they need to hear until we reach the end agreed anything new on the terrorists he's in the city no

05:46idea i'm clear whether we're the target an academic distinction if you really had an anide decimator

06:04the security bots have acquired the target we're too late

06:13let's go

06:21hmm

06:33so

06:41Jesus, did they destroy the whole city to get at us?

07:06Our enemy's on that distance.

07:09Perhaps we made a new enemy.

07:11What do they already know about the Seattle facility?

07:16We have other options.

07:18We aren't equipped to fight in war.

07:20We're going to change the terms of engagement.

07:22It's our war, not theirs.

07:25We don't need cities or armies.

07:27We have the cells of human bodies.

07:29An invisible weapon for an invisible war.

Deus Ex Invisible War - Warren Spector Interview

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