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Angelouss · 08-20-2002, 12:49 AM

dues ex machina means god from a machine which is actually a literary term mostly used by ancient greek playwrights. basically it's in the play it looks like things can't get any worse so the playwright inserts a god who fixes everthing and everybody lives happily ever after. this of course has multiple meanings when ur talking bout the game. one jc comes along and pretty much solves the problems(at least the ones caused by mj-12) the other promient meaning is **********spoiler***************

JC comes from a machine u find that out near the end of the game. and one of the possible endings is to become a god almost. also the ai is a machine that becomes a god like figure.

**************end spoiler****************
as for JC it's fairly obvious that your not suppose to be Jesus,u can kill a hell of alot of people,(I played once trying to save as many as i could but u have to break out the guns cause of lack of ammo if nothing else also i always save Paul and its proably not impossible but i could save him without resorting to lots of grenades and an assualt rifle) but the connection was intentional u are the futures savour whether they know it or not and theres a possiblity of ur acession. i'm sure the paul connection was intentional too. there is very little that wasn't

intresting side note
there seems to be a connection to between dues ex and rocky horror picture show
the name of the sword
sonic tranducers
and one other thing i can't remember appear in both
when warren spector was asked to comment he said he didn't know anything about it but would not be surprised to find out if a staff member had done it intenionally. he qouted it as a testament to the growing size of game devolpment studios and seemed to find it quite amusing

08-20-2002, 12:49 AM	#6
Angelouss Dungeon Master Join Date: August 1, 2002 Location: denial Age: 41 Posts: 84	dues ex machina means god from a machine which is actually a literary term mostly used by ancient greek playwrights. basically it's in the play it looks like things can't get any worse so the playwright inserts a god who fixes everthing and everybody lives happily ever after. this of course has multiple meanings when ur talking bout the game. one jc comes along and pretty much solves the problems(at least the ones caused by mj-12) the other promient meaning is ********spoiler*********** JC comes from a machine u find that out near the end of the game. and one of the possible endings is to become a god almost. also the ai is a machine that becomes a god like figure. **********end spoiler************** as for JC it's fairly obvious that your not suppose to be Jesus,u can kill a hell of alot of people,(I played once trying to save as many as i could but u have to break out the guns cause of lack of ammo if nothing else also i always save Paul and its proably not impossible but i could save him without resorting to lots of grenades and an assualt rifle) but the connection was intentional u are the futures savour whether they know it or not and theres a possiblity of ur acession. i'm sure the paul connection was intentional too. there is very little that wasn't intresting side note there seems to be a connection to between dues ex and rocky horror picture show the name of the sword sonic tranducers and one other thing i can't remember appear in both when warren spector was asked to comment he said he didn't know anything about it but would not be surprised to find out if a staff member had done it intenionally. he qouted it as a testament to the growing size of game devolpment studios and seemed to find it quite amusing __________________ Come play with my wings.