One of the big kickers here is that choice to play as a male or female character. "Our approach to having a female player character we think is kind of progressive. We're not putting her in the game because just because she's a babe. There's a higher percentage of women that play Deus Ex compared to most shooters," says Harvey. "We want to facilitate both sides and all different play styles and so you know we take the female player character very seriously. But of course we also have the male character and we have the same ethnic choices, hair color choices, things like that... And it's so cool because we do in-engine cutscenes so whatever choices you make, you'll see in the game." As to whether the choice of gender for the main character would affect storyline or gameplay at all, the answer is not really. They didn't want to change the game totally for that reason, but there will be some NPCs that treat a female character a midge different than they would a male one in terms of the way they speak and interact. But the main plot points and decisions will remain the same.