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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...
I can't begin to express how much I hope these reviews are accurate.... After the mess that was DX2... I'm *very* skeptical...
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...
...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)
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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.
Yeah I ordered mine last week and I got an email today saying that im not going to get it today because they didnt ship it in time... =( They said I should hopefully have it next week....
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.
Jesus Christ, Denton!
Great!
Now maybe they can stop fooling around with this game and get to the franchise that's actually awesome (Thief) instead. ;-)
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 :)
"I wanted orange! It gave me lemon-lime..."
... 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. :(
Nothing like playing an ugly little Cherub and jumping in hookers, cops, murderers, and just some average schmuck in order to make your way further into the depths :)
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?
I heard that the AI is extremely exploitable though.
Justice is the sheep getting arrested while an impartial judge declares the vote void.
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.