
I was forced backwards to higher ground, until I was trapped against a wall. I took down many of the augmented enemies quickly and stealthily with the Tesla and tranq rifle, but as soon as I was spotted the others flanked and chased me. And an automatic combat shotgun and a battle rifle. On my way there, I’d used up most of my tranquiliser ammo, leaving me with a handful of tranquiliser shots, the Tesla weapon, and a pair of gas grenades. That proved to be lucky because The Throat was where my pacifist plan came apart. (Another unusual change in the game is that merchants have all the items they’re selling to you with them, normally locked in storage-so if you want to steal them and you’re okay with the moral consequences, you can.) Here, you’re attempting to bring the leader of a seemingly-terrorist organisation to heel, and there are many routes to him, through a heavily-guarded and very vertical building.īy the time I’d got to The Throat, I’d only killed one group of people-my friendly neighbourhood arms dealer and his bodyguards-which meant I was rather heavily tooled-up. Suffice to say that the industrial area inside Golem City called The Throat feels like a tribute to the first level of the original Deus Ex, set on the Statue of Liberty. But compared to the broken down augs of Golem, he’s “too shiny, not one of us, you don’t belong here.” Standing out is not an advantage. The problem, as DeMarle puts it, is that Jensen is “a fish out of water wherever he goes.” In Prague, the augs are being portrayed as terrorists, and in Golem City he has to go in undercover. It’s heavily patrolled by the police, who are oppressing the trapped augs quite horribly, but who have no real power in the slum. This place is cramped, small and messier than the classical buildings of Prague. Once Jensen’s done with Prague, the plot moves him into a ghetto for the augmented, called Golem City. And that's only the dialogues, which you then support with the written text, any emails. “That's what I find great about this game,” says DeMarle “that we've got over a hundred page script, but you might only get ten pages of it, which is wild. That means some of the sidequests have scripts that are more than a hundred pages long.
