Skyline on Liberty Island.. - by CCCToad
CCCToad on 15/1/2005 at 04:50
I apologize if this has been posted before. My search turned up no results for this topic.
As I started another round of the game, I could not help but to notice that the New York Skyline is, of course, photo real to the real skyline. Accurate, except for two buildings. The twin towers.
This is most likely not an intentional decision, as the disc I just re-installed from dates back to August 2000, well before the terrorist attacks. It probably does not have any significance, but I found this observation uncanny and creepy.
metal dawn on 15/1/2005 at 06:43
I guess I don't remeber that. The image of the towers is definetly stirring, maybe a little unsettling, but I wouldn't go as far as to say creepy. It's not like it's a premonition, at least I don't think it is. I think of it as a tragic coincidence.
[EDIT: Perhaps I misinterpreted a bit, but I hope you know what I mean.]
hayaku on 15/1/2005 at 07:14
wait....... so your saying that the skyline does NOT have the twin towers, despite the fact that they had not been destroyed at the time of production/release?
if this is the case..... they were probably deliberatley removed, being significantly larger that the surrounding towers, they might have looked odd in the context of their use as a skyline.
CocoClown on 15/1/2005 at 09:14
I remember hearing a story about this... apparently (if I remember correctly), when making that skyline, they took half the New York skyline and flipped it to create the one we see in game. It just happens they took the half without the Twin Towers in it. Their story, in case people asked, was that they were "destroyed in a terrorist incident". Creepy...
In fact, I've just googled for the interview. (
http://www.insidemacgames.com/news/story.php?ArticleID=7099) Here it is
frymaster on 15/1/2005 at 23:56
for that matter, the entire backstory to Deus Ex is quite disturbing, it mirrors events following the terrorist incident quite well
CCCToad on 17/1/2005 at 05:06
read the interview.....
:sweat: :sweat: :sweat:
