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Give me Deus Ex (Invisible War)
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Picture it: a crumbling world in the wake of a great collapse, filled with pornographic inequality and quotidian violence. A world where the uttermost limit of respectable politics seems to be presiding over—sometimes slowing, sometimes hastening, never reversing—a process of inexorable decline.
What am I talking about? Oh, you read the headline? That's cheating. Yes, I'm talking about Deus Ex: Invisible War. Again. Hey, I get it—PC Gamer has been bafflingly heavy on the Invisible War chat recently. Blame a recent feature in Edge magazine, which got several of us—including our Jody, who made the powerful and correct case that the game is good, actually—thinking hard about the sad black sheep in the Deus Ex series. It also got one of us (me) replaying it all the way through the end. Still a banger, by the way.
And you know what? To hell with Metal Gear Solid 2, or even the original Deus Ex; I think Invisible War might actually be the most future-predicting-est videogame of all time. No, really.
As I said all those paragraphs ago, Invisible War takes place in the aftermath of a collapse. The Great Collapse, actually: the unstoppable domino line of catastrophes that JC Denton kicked off at the end of Deus Ex 1. Ion Storm ordered the entire menu when it came to choosing a canon conclusion for DX1—JC became a dissociative robo-god, global communications retreated to the level of the carrier pigeon, and in the tumult, the Illuminati—it's always the Illuminati—swept back into power. Nice going, Denton.
This is, of course, pretty much 1:1 what has happened in the real world since the turn of the millennium. No need to explain myself here.
Okay, fine. Over here in reality, we live in our own Great Collapse: each morning we wake anew and pick over the ruins left by the 2008 Great Financial Crisis. Our collapse was not, alas, precipitated by a man with a nano-sword and a 30-foot vertical leap—no matter what rumours you've heard about Alan Greenspan—but rather by the greed and myopia of all the worst people on Earth. Bummer.
The 2008 Panic did not reduce us to the level of hi-tech feudalism, but take a look at some real GDP per capita graphs sometime and tell me we're not still limping from that blow.
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Picture it: a crumbling world in the wake of a great collapse, filled with pornographic inequality and quotidian violence. A world where the uttermost limit of respectable politics seems to be presiding over—sometimes slowing, sometimes hastening, never reversing—a process of inexorable decline.
What am I talking about? Oh, you read the headline? That's cheating. Yes, I'm talking about Deus Ex: Invisible War. Again. Hey, I get it—PC Gamer has been bafflingly heavy on the Invisible War chat recently. Blame a recent feature in Edge magazine, which got several of us—including our Jody, who made the powerful and correct case that the game is good, actually—thinking hard about the sad black sheep in the Deus Ex series. It also got one of us (me) replaying it all the way through the end. Still a banger, by the way.
And you know what? To hell with Metal Gear Solid 2, or even the original Deus Ex; I think Invisible War might actually be the most future-predicting-est videogame of all time. No, really.
As I said all those paragraphs ago, Invisible War takes place in the aftermath of a collapse. The Great Collapse, actually: the unstoppable domino line of catastrophes that JC Denton kicked off at the end of Deus Ex 1. Ion Storm ordered the entire menu when it came to choosing a canon conclusion for DX1—JC became a dissociative robo-god, global communications retreated to the level of the carrier pigeon, and in the tumult, the Illuminati—it's always the Illuminati—swept back into power. Nice going, Denton.
This is, of course, pretty much 1:1 what has happened in the real world since the turn of the millennium. No need to explain myself here.
Okay, fine. Over here in reality, we live in our own Great Collapse: each morning we wake anew and pick over the ruins left by the 2008 Great Financial Crisis. Our collapse was not, alas, precipitated by a man with a nano-sword and a 30-foot vertical leap—no matter what rumours you've heard about Alan Greenspan—but rather by the greed and myopia of all the worst people on Earth. Bummer.
The 2008 Panic did not reduce us to the level of hi-tech feudalism, but take a look at some real GDP per capita graphs sometime and tell me we're not still limping from that blow.
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