Deus Ex 2 en veux-tu en voilà

Ion Storm travaille un peu la hype autour de Deus Ex 2 en accueillant tous les gros sites de news dans leurs locaux et il en résulte deux nouvelles previews : une chez Gamespot qui ne dit pas grand chose de plus que celle d’IGN mais qui est illustrées de screenshots assez jolis et une chez Total Video Games qui a le mérite d’accorder plus de places aux citations des programmeurs (pas franchement intéressantes non plus) qu’au blabla habituel. Ca n’en apprend pas long sur le jeu mais la démarche est intéressante.

La conclusion de Gamespot :

Deus Ex: Invisible War has incredible potential, but clearly there are some technical hurdles for Ion Storm to overcome before its release. The most obvious is the frame rate, which was running at no more than 20 frames per second on either the PC or the Xbox, and sometimes much less. The goal is to get the frame rate to a constant 30 frames per second. The enemy AI itself is another challenge, given how many different situations it’s expected to react to, including dynamic light conditions. And certainly, it’s always a big task to test and balance a game that gives players so many options. In 2000, Ion Storm shipped the original game with polished gameplay but with some technical issues, and we’ll just have to hope there’s enough time to iron everything out for the release of Invisible War. Specter said he couldn’t specify an exact release date other than « 2003, » but he noted that a date would be set soon. Look for more on the game in the coming weeks.