Joe Hillshoist wrote:Ahab Deus Ex is a great game.
To me it feels more like a good book or movie, ie its engaging... and the idea of making moral choices (you can play the whole FPS game without actually killing anyone... its not a requirement or anything, just something you can do if you choose to.) Anyone ever read the Terry Pratchett book "Only you can save mankind."?
A Russian village named Imran... wonder if they play cricket there.
It's probably my favourite game of all time. I've still got it installed, but hardly ever play now. I always try to avoid violence in it wherever possible, but I wasn't aware when I first played that it was always possible, so I fell into the trap of comitting more than a few "morally justified" murders and massacres.
Very few games make you feel that the point where you go on a rampage is the point where you lose, though. It was good at that.
The sequel was both dumbed-down and creepy, with those merciless, terroristic, inhuman, all-black armored guys called "the Omar". That was so unsubtle as to be outright offensive. And if you sided with them, and won for their cause, they turned the entire earth into - a giant irradiated desert. Because they loved sand.
Not having that!
I have never read any Terry Pratchett, I'm afraid to say, but I've played the game set in Ankh Morpork. Not having read the books, I had no clue what was going on, and gave up early. Saw a great little documentary he made recently though about how he's coping with Alzheimers. It was sad but funny as well.
@ Penguin. Hehe, good man. Never join either side. Although to complete the game, you must've killed a few thousand guys on your lonesome anyway...
I forgot about this classic, which was the only game ever released by
Virgin Interactive, back when Richard Branson was actually quite admirable (a long, long time ago).
Floor 13:
The player takes on the role of the Director General of the "Department of Agriculture and Fisheries", a non-existent Executive Agency that conceals a secret police which keeps the government popular by any means necessary. Answering only to the Prime Minister, the Director General has the power to use wiretapping, surveillance, smear tactics, disinformation, burglary, kidnapping, torture, and assassination to keep the government popular with the people.
In addition to the Director General's regular duties suppressing and removing those who threaten the status quo, there is also a subplot involving his membership in a secret society called "The Secret Masters of Thoth". These missions, which are received from a "Secret Master" wearing the vestments of an Egyptian pharaoh, involve more bizarre opposition than regular missions; these missions include protecting a fellow member from a Mafia assassination, foiling an attempt to subvert the nation by pod people in key positions, the protection of the Church of the SubGenius from a scandal, and restraining the growing power of the Illuminati, among others.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floor_13_%28video_game%29
Started off bolding bits of that, then just bolded the lot.
