Cover page of the design document
Shooter: Majestic Revelations design document version 5.3e is a pre-release design document for Shooter: Majestic Revelations, the precursor concept to Deus Ex. Dated November 1997, the document describes game concepts and designs that existed during the early stages of the development of Deus Ex. Pages 1-2, 15-76, and 81 are known.
Release history[]
In 2013, Eurogamer released an article with screenshots of the design document.[1] Later, in 2016, the author of the Eurogamer article released a lengthy excerpt of the design document to a Reddit user.[2][3] This excerpt, which is 64 pages long, is not the full design document, but includes the detailed description of the entire mission sequence.
Another page, page 81, was made public, as part of a collections gallery, by the Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin.
Contents[]
Please see the main page for Shooter: Majestic Revelations for details on the document's contents, including a plot summary, missions list, and images.
Pages 1-2 and 15-76 of the document are available on the internet archive, here. Page 81 is shown in the gallery below.
See also[]
- Shooter: Majestic Revelations design document version 6.4 – Later design document dated February 1998
Gallery[]
References[]
- ↑ Joe Martin, "The deleted scenes of Deus Ex". Eurogamer. January 4, 2013.
- ↑ Defaultplayer001, "Full 64 page Deus Ex 1 Design Document". Reddit. November 14, 2016.
- ↑ Alex Wawro, "Annotated version of an original Deus Ex design doc surfaces". Gamasutra. November 14, 2016.
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