Well, Billy over at Voodoo Extreme posted this but I can't for the life of me find it on the Deus Ex message boards. Oh well, I'll take his word for it. Here's some info (ripped shamelessly) on one of Ion Storm's next games:

on the non-fantasy setting: A large part of the impetus behind Deus Ex was the fact that I and several other people just got so damn sick and tired of fantasy games and far future SF. We wanted to do something a little more down to earth.