Comment by protocolture
21 hours ago
>The excitable lads at Australia’s PC Powerplay, on the other hand, placed no such qualifiers on their declaration of love for Deus Ex. In a special feature published when the game was not yet three months old, they declared it to be quite simply The Best Game Ever: “Every action within Deus Ex’s expansive environments has far-reaching consequences, making it seem like the player is ensconced within a living, breathing world.”
I really miss PC Powerplay. It was great in its time.
That and Atomic were a cool combination of car-style modding culture with PCs. Super common now but innovative (and dangerous - "you're going to tell people to break their warranties by overclocking?!?!") at the time.
I worked with Ashton Mills for a little bit in the early 2000s and he was a standup guy, I included him in the Acknowledgements to a book I recently wrote as an inspiration.