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Deus Ex: Human Revolution Released
Over 11 years ago, Deus Ex became one of the most celebrated games of its time, tightly weaving FPS and RPG gameplay together with a rich cyberpunk story. Today, Eidos Montreal and Square Enix launched a new entry to the series, titled Deus Ex: Human Revolution. A launch trailer is available, and early reviews for the game are positive. Opposable Thumbs says, "Fans can take a deep breath: they will get what they want from a Deus Ex game in this release. The story is dense, complete with twists, interesting characters, and far-flung locations." Rock, Paper, Shotgun largely agrees, and both reviews praise the breadth of choices players have in how they accomplish mission objectives. However, they disagree on the quality of the voice acting, and RPS complains of untimely and oddly-designed boss battles. DE:HR's stealth gameplay and hacking minigame receive high marks, as does the game's overall length and replayability.
Played for a few hours this morning - it unlocked 3am EST.
I have no complaints, and it does indeed feel like Deus Ex. Stable engine too, not a single crash. The only graphical oddity I had was some white "noise-like" pixels in models. I determined this was caused by enabling Tesselation with an nvidia card. Turning it off fixed the issue and as far as I can tell had no actual effect on quality.
I can rattle off on things that I love, but I'm hard pressed to find a single annoyance. Hell, they went so far as to NOT use mouse acceleration! I'm so used to that failure being included in games that I thought something was wrong for a few minutes!
For large sets, this will be our guide even unto death, for the LORD will work for each type of data it is applied to...
Wiah Messiah was revisited and as cherished as the Deus Ex genre.
I can't begin to express how much I hope these reviews are accurate.... After the mess that was DX2... I'm *very* skeptical...
That trailer video didn't resemble good old Deus Ex at all. It's just like another cheap Matrix ripoff. I'm not saying the game can't be good but the video definitely is not.
I'm in Australia so unfortunately the unlock command on steam hasn't yet made it across the ocean even though its been preloaded for a week :(
If only there was some way to get the unlock code to go through the tubes faster.
It has not been long enough, but I am not quite agreeing with the glowing reviews. The story so far is great, and the levels/cities are really well designed. The graphics are good, while nowhere near The Witcher 2 or even Crisis/Metro. The great, internally consistent style of the game world more than makes up for that.
But the combat, oh, the combat. I started both one shooter and one sneaker character, and tried two difficulty levels with each. I have not found a combo that worked satisfyingly. The shooter mode is stupid easy until you crank up the difficulty, and then it becomes a 'pop in and out of cover' chore. (Disclaimer: I despise cover combat)
The sneaking is immensely satisfying, until you clearly screw up, wait for hammer to fall... and the guard brushes against you and walks on without detecting you.
It needs work. It is nowhere as bad as Alpha Protocol, or whatever the spy game was called. It is enjoyable, and I do not regret buying it. I hope it will be polished after release, the way the Witcher 2 still is. But even if it is abandoned, the way AP was, it is still worth playing.
No good deed goes unpunished...
When I heard the Wilhelm scream at 2:09 in the trailer
So far it looks awesome, I've only played maybe 20 minutes. I like the cover system. I am having some issues with the in game tutorials and cut scenes flaking out on me.
I "pre-ordered" on Sunday night through amazon.com and paid the $.99 for release date delivery. I got the Augmented edition, it seemed like a good deal for the extra $10. I can't wait to play, the original DX was one of my absolute favorites, it had so many decision points and the game could turn out very differently based on what you chose.
Taking guns away from the 99% gives the 1% 100% of the power.
I'd ask you which game you'd rank above all others, but I suspect the answer is "get off my lawn".
...is something other reviewers seem to like: The Hacking.
I don't know why it's getting so much praise, because it's a total downer for me. The whole point of Deus ex, particularly when you play stealthy, is that it relies on skill. The skill to know what way to tackle a situation, the skill to avoid patrols and not get caught. However, the hacking comes down to chance, complete and utter chance. You can upgrade your skills all you want, but all this does is lower the chances of you getting caught. It's still entirely down to chance, though.
It means that you may as well just save before hacking anything, go for it and if you fail, just reload. No skill required. It utterly takes away from it for me.
The original Deus Ex didn't really do a hacking minigame. As soon as you hacked anything, you were in, but you only had so much time to do what you wanted (more if you upgraded this skill), but at least this still took some skill, it still gave the impression of having to work quickly, to plan ahead what you want to do and practice doing it once you were in. It's such a shame the hacking element in Deus Ex: HR is more of a brute-force thing.
The rest of the game is top notch, though.
+1 IDisagreeSoHeMustBeATrollOrAnAstroturferOrAShill
No it's accurate: "Deus Ex has appeared in a number of "Greatest Games of All Time" lists and Hall of Fame features, placing in the top thirty for most, and in the top ten for many." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus_Ex#Awards_and_Greatest_games_lists)
http://compsoc.man.ac.uk/~shep/
Or not this Deux Ex then?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus_Ex_Machina_(video_game)
Know nothing about this, just reminded me of my far ZX Spectrum using past...
Sigs are so 1990s. No way would I be seen dead with one.
Well, today my schedule just got full.
That brings me to an interesting point, / . is just "the ramblings of socially-inept, technology-literate news-mongers".
Really? How much did you actually play? Did you play it multiple times? Did you get past the 1st hour or so of gameplay? The original Deus Ex was an incredible game, especially for its time. The way that it actually included player choice, felt like a shooter while playing more like an RPG, had multiple approaches to each level, and just was an incredible game. It holds up even now (though it's pretty dull for the first hour or so).
It's funny, most of the issues with the game are the same issues that the original had. Lack of cutting edge graphics? Check. Average voice acting? Check. Boss fights that suddenly demand that you use shooter skills? Check. So for me these aren't a major deal breaker. I just hope you can do some super unscripted things like you could in DX1.
For instance, in DX1 you could use LAMs to mine the entire plane. When you'll be talking on the plane and hear "we have to go before UNACO arrives..", BAMM!, well there went Anna, I guess....
We can't get this here in the UK until Friday, by which time most of it has already been spoiled.
I've got it on order from Amazon, but I'm tempted to pirate it tonight so that no more gets spoiled for me :(
1: discovered theres a new deus ex on slashdot
2: seen the trailer
3: OMG there is KILLING you are not meant to do that in DEUS EX. JCD would never do!
4: Oh god, he hurts people!
5: I have to be better, gotta do that without that ugly shooting!
6: *clicketyclick*
(downloading now)
This is completely wrong. Your comment about the plot is also ridiculous, but to claim the upgrade system is what made Deus Ex famous? Just plain wrong.
Well, someone has to start it...
I spilled my DRINK!
Great!
Now maybe they can stop fooling around with this game and get to the franchise that's actually awesome (Thief) instead. ;-)
"One of the most celebrated games of its time * "
Choke. Sputter. Vomit.
The original was alright, but flawed. The plot? Mediocre. Controls? Mediocre. Only the upgrade system caught people's attention. This post is an unlabeled advertisement.
* ...by people who know a good game when they see it.
Control issues? Not unless you have a myelination problem. And what does mediocre controls even mean? You expected power glove support?
Plot? Few plots measure up to DX (provided the player was of sufficient age/intelligence when they played it). Even the NPC dialoge was thought provoking. Hell, I even played out the full conversation with icarus(?) just to see what it had to say... "you will have your god, and you will make him by your own hand".
DX was rich with story and gameplay. One that everyone should definitely play.
That has to be the stupidest justification I've ever heard. How will it have been spoiled? Because you can't stop yourself from reading spoilers? You can wait as long as you like and not have it spoiled.
I actually own the game but I'm not going to play it this week, probably not next week, maybe not next month. I have too much on my plate both actual stuff I need to do and just other games I'm playing and want to finish before I start a new one. I don't at all worry it'll be "spoiled". I am not going to go around reading about it, and my friends won't spoil it for me.
Wow! Deus game of my childhood! I'm very pleased. Played without stopping.
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It's a prequel. You'll find plenty of references to the preceding games if you've played them, but no, you don't need to do so.
This isn't a troll. I want to buy this but wondering if anyone has tested this under wine, appdb reports garbage but they were pre-release versions. Payday on Thursday so hopefully appdb updated with at least a silver before then :)
How to make a good game.
-dont give a single drippy shit about the console community
How to fuck a good game up.
-actually give a drippy shit about the console community
If you do not have the money to invest in a good gaming rig, you should spend your free time at a second job.
welcome to earth
When I played with the game on Normal mode I found that you can still die in a firefight even while behind cover. This is not like Mass Effect 2 where you can pop out, kill someone and pop back. You die so quickly in this game, that popping out to take a pot-shot may just end up costing you 25% of your health (in mass effect it's more like 5%). On top of that, I've seen bullets randomly make it through slats in the cover. So unless you're behind some rather large object, you have to be careful. On top of that, the enemies will often flank you (also unlike Mass Effect), the levels often have several hallways to the same area, so it's fairly easy to miss someone and get cut off.
... that said, if you can get the first Deus Ex game (it's sold on Steam, not sure where else), by all means do so. It's a masterpiece - one of those games like X-COM or Fallout that is truly a work of art.
Another demo-less bad console port. :(
Until you get to Hong Kong and hear someone talk, you mean? :P
I'm not sure what you mean. What about Hong Kong?
Is it ok, plot-wise, if I ignored the sequels and went straight from Deus Ex to Human Revolution? Does the game make a lot of references to the past?
Looks like no Mac version yet. Anyone able to report how it plays in Crossover?
Is it true that DXHR has in game ads? Are they obtrusive?
I want to play the game but hearing about this possibility has me thinking of waiting for a price drop...
I mean, until you hear the voice acting for the asian characters.
Well, I'm not Chinese, so perhaps I'm missing something there - but it didn't sound weird to me.