I have a confession to make.

I am a terribly sad geek.

One of my addictions in life has always been video games. Having said that, I don’t and never have owned an Xbox, a PS2 or any other console. I just play games on the PC. I don’t play that often anymore because they’re time consuming and far too involving and the missus hates it.

However, everynow and then I can’t resist and find something which is so absorbing I have to leave the real world for a couple of days just to play it. One of those games was “Deus Ex”, a cyberpunk thriller set in the near future where you play a cybernetically enhanced agent who gets caught up in a web of intrigue and more conspiracies than you can shake an X-files box set at.

The beauty of the game was that it was a first person shooter that immersed you in a nearly fully realised world and that you could play the game more or less in any way you wanted. It was fantastic.

A sequel, “Deus Ex: Invisible War” has been in development for a while and the demo for it has finally been released. Muchos excitement. Unfortuatnely it’s only the US demo and it will allegedly be released stateside on 2nd November with a UK release for some reason being delayed until 5th March which should give me enough time to upgrade my PC to a P4 multi-gig system and request the game as a late birthday present.

Of course, it could be shit!

More info (if you’re at all interested) over at PlanetDeusEx