Review later.
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Sashu had this to say about dark elf butts:
Meh, I'll just download it when someone from here hosts it.
/me glances at khyron
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Nina painfully thought these words up:
You guys are terrible. ;p
no, no, just me.
The Good:
Atmosphere. If you liked the dark world in Deus Ex 1, well, it's back and rendered a thousand times better. Burning barrels project flickering lights and shadows, the crummy bar looks crummy, full of grime... It looks perfect.
Liberty. Just in the demo, you get to choose from two ways (maybe more) to complete your mission objective (the only one included).
Flamethrower. You liked shooting enemies and watching them burn away to death? Oooh boy, you'll like this one even more. 
Physics. Though there wasn't too much opportunity to mess around with this, the physics seem awesome. Jump on top of a pile of barrels and watch them roll down. Toss them about to bounce and push other objects. There's nearly not a thing you can't pick up and mess around with.
Chioces! You can choose between a guy and a girl and (I assume) many different looks, though you already knew this if you were following DX2 any closely. What you choose impacts interactions, as well. My female agent got hit on by a person or two, the male one did not. ;p
The Bad:
Glitched. Maybe it was just the FilePlanet demo, maybe it was just bad sound card drivers... Whatever the case, some discussion sounds were going amiss, and sometimes had some noise.
Physics might be too much. Yeah, tossing crates about is fun, but it gets a bit hard to jump on one to crouch into a window when it keeps bouncing about. Stuff like this happens sometimes... And the ragdoll physics seemed a bit glitchy at times, causing cases of excessive rigor mortis. 
Resource hog. Again, maybe it was just bad drivers, but it had trouble running on an Athlon 2700+ with a Radeon 9200. More input would be needed on this, but for me it had trouble running.
Claustrophobic. Maybe it's just me, or just the part of the game included, but everything seemed tiny and tight. Compared to the first game where you had some open spaces, here everything was packed, making me quite nervous...
The Awful:
I can't think of anything awful about this yet, other than it's not already out.
So, definitely worth a try.
"Don't want to sound like a fanboy, but I am with you. I'll buy it for sure, it's just a matter of for how long I will be playing it..."
- Silvast, Battle.net forums
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Everyone wondered WTF when Fazum'Zen Fastfist wrote:
Uhhhh? You can play as a female? I thought you were supposed to be playing as Alex Denton...
The name Alex can be either male (Alexander) or female (Alexis, Alexandra)
You must get me a picture of a pimp on fire!!!!!!
Whee! Flamethrower.
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Elvish Crack Piper's fortune cookie read:
Nina! Tier! Yama!You must get me a picture of a pimp on fire!!!!!!
Whee! Flamethrower.
Didn't see any pimps, but the guards do run around frantically screaming for water. Funniest moment I had in the demo was walking into the crime boss's office, and trying to strike a deal with her. I told her I'd get the money, and instead of being reasonable, she and her guards drew their weapons. Luckily I had introduced the guard outside that wielded the flamethrower to Mr. Stun Prod, and since it was in a confined office.... well, you get the idea 
[ 11-21-2003: Message edited by: Sakkra ]
Edit: Me = UBB's bitch
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Sakkra said this about your mom:
The name Alex can be either male (Alexander) or female (Alexis, Alexandra)
But I fail to see how guards would hit on a female that has a masculine physiology.
Remember seeing the tube at the end of Deus Ex with Alex Denton in?
"Don't want to sound like a fanboy, but I am with you. I'll buy it for sure, it's just a matter of for how long I will be playing it..."
- Silvast, Battle.net forums
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Verily, Sakkra doth proclaim:
Didn't see any pimps, but the guards do run around frantically screaming for water. Funniest moment I had in the demo was walking into the crime boss's office, and trying to strike a deal with her. I told her I'd get the money, and instead of being reasonable, she and her guards drew their weapons. Luckily I had introduced the guard outside that wielded the flamethrower to Mr. Stun Prod, and since it was in a confined office.... well, you get the idea
Edit: Me = UBB's bitch
I just hacked the turret and controlled it to shoot them into the ground. The upside down view was quite a nice touch 
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This insanity brought to you by Nina:
I just hacked the turret and controlled it to shoot them into the ground. The upside down view was quite a nice touch
Shooting the corpses and making them dance was funny too. Also, the deconstructor thingy you can activate to eat bodies is just spiffy
What does, flesh failed to initialize mean 
What stuff doesnt work?
I dunno, the interface in Deus Ex seemed like it was much more... out of the way.
This seems like it's always in my face.
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Lashanna had this to say about Robocop:
Maybe it was just me, but the interface seemed... invasive...I dunno, the interface in Deus Ex seemed like it was much more... out of the way.
This seems like it's always in my face.
I agree completely.
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A sleep deprived Shazorx / Modrakien stammered:
My main beef is that fighting the first guard alone brutally rapes the battered corpse of my GF4ti.
Ran absolutely fine on my Ti4200, but it's severely overclocked.
I spent ten minutes throwing that guard at a light on the wall, before I finally got him to stick there.
Then I found this little beauty.
It's not something people hear about.
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Sean stopped beating up furries long enough to write:
Ran absolutely fine on my Ti4200, but it's severely overclocked.
Hmm at what clockspeeds / cooling do you run it? Mine dies at high loads when I overclock it by more than 15%, below that I don't really see much of a performance difference. I only got a 64mb one though so that might be it.
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Shazorx / Modrakien Model 2000 was programmed to say:
Hmm at what clockspeeds / cooling do you run it?
290 Core clock, 600 Memory clock. Stock cooling.
Default is.. 250/500, I think.
It's not something people hear about.
Deus Ex 1's music. It was so awesome, all themes fit perfectly in the ambience. But I haven't heard anything noticeable in the demo. :((
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Sean had this to say about John Romero:
290 Core clock, 600 Memory clock. Stock cooling.Default is.. 250/500, I think.
Strange 270/550 already makes mine basically unusable, guess it just sucks.
Now that I got it halfway working (didn't notice vsync was on) it looks completely orgasmic, except for the retarded interface system the the Dx1 one was far better, everything split up over a bunch of different screens is a step backwards imo. [ 11-22-2003: Message edited by: Shazorx / Modrakien ]
The first is unified ammo... it seems all weapons in the demo use the same type of ammunition, whether it's the stun prod, flamethrower, pistol, etc. About the only variance was how fast ammo's used.
The second is localized damage; A headshot does no more damage than a leg shot. This frightens me. One of my greatest joys in Deus Ex was sneaking through the air vents, turning the laser sight on my pistol on, and executing guards one by one.
Edit: Also, I wasn't aware that being hit by napalm breaks both your arms at the elbows.
[ 11-23-2003: Message edited by: Sakkra ]
Did they break my precious?
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Elvish Crack Piper had this to say about Jimmy Carter:
Whaaaat?Did they break my precious?
Not at all, I actually like this iteration of the flamethrower more than the first. Primary mode is the standard hose of fiery death that ignites people (albeit not instantly), and alternate fire shoots a glob of napalm which sticks to people for burny goodness. The alternate fire has good range, but slow refire rate, making it good for taking out the one or two guards that heard your first attack and decided to investigate.
Unified ammo?
No localized damage?
I hope this is just because its a pre-released demo...
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When the babel fish was in place, it was apparent Elvish Crack Piper said:
Referring more to the apparent dumbing down of some gameplay.Unified ammo?
No localized damage?
I hope this is just because its a pre-released demo...
Doubt it, they wouldn't go out adding something intwined with the game engine like localized damage at the stage where a demo is already out, at this point they're probably doing bugfixes / content / some last artwork etc not major design revisions.
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Elvish Crack Piper had this to say about Knight Rider:
Referring more to the apparent dumbing down of some gameplay.Unified ammo?
No localized damage?
I hope this is just because its a pre-released demo...
Ahh, I misunderstood what you were asking about. I'm very afraid for DX2, but I know my beloved Warren Spector won't fail me.
.. and thought it was god-awful. 
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Mortious stopped beating up furries long enough to write:
I played it.... and thought it was god-awful.
The only thing I thought was even remotely worth the download were the bio-mods. Everything else blew.
Im still going to buy it, I cant resist my precious.
Why does the retinal scanner guy have a named?
Its scott, which is a kind of funny name for a guy having to do with retina
But all he does is say, press than button to open the door, and then just the same stuff all the nameless troops do.
WTf?
