Deus Ex: The Icarus Effect, Deus Ex: Human Revolution both due in 2011

You could be reading Deus Ex after playing it next year. See, the Deus Ex series has inspired James Swallow to write a book, Deus Ex: The Icarus Effect. And Del Rey Books has announced that said book will be out sometime next year.

The timing of Deus Ex: The Icarus Effect couldn’t be more perfect. At the moment, the forthcoming PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 game Deus Ex: Human Revolution has a tentative March 2011 release date. So since Deus Ex: The Icarus Effect has a 2011 release date as well, players could end up having it in time to read after completing the game, to enhance their knowledge of the Deus Ex world and experience. Or, perhaps it could even be reading before Deus Ex: Human Revolution, so people could read it to get themselves hyped up for the game.

Aside from being set in the same world though, it doesn’t seem Deus Ex: The Icarus Effect and Deus Ex: Human Revolution will have too much in common. The game follows Adam Jensen, a security officer forced to undergo biomechanical augmentations to save his life, who gets caught up in various conspiracies. The book follows government agents Anna Kelso and Ben Saxon as they search for truth in their world.

Del Rey doesn’t mention when Deus Ex: The Icarus Effect is set. While Deus Ex: Human Revolution is the third game in the series, it is the first chronologically. Too bad Deus Ex: The Icarus Effect press release doesn’t mention augmentations – we’d be able to determine when it was set if it mentioned biomechanical or nanotechnological augmentations.

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