And Chris Carter’s cult show is an obvious influence on the game, with its government conspiracies, shadowy secret organisations, men in black, and bug-eyed aliens.
When Deus Ex was being developed, The X-Files was deep into its fourth season. A lot of things were cut from that document-including a level set on a space station-but Warren Spector and his team’s original vision of a deep, rewarding RPG set in a rich, simulated world remained intact throughout development. The sheer breadth of its systems and the complexity of its level design is unmatched, even today. “And a deep world simulation that allows them to solve problems in a variety of ways is the best way to do this.”Īnd that’s the core of what makes Deus Ex a PC classic. “The key to role-playing is giving players the freedom to act as they see fit,” it reads. In the earliest Deus Ex design document, written three years before the game was released in 2000, Ion Storm established the philosophy of their ambitious cyberpunk RPG.
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