Yes, it might be a bit late for this, yes, the game may look a bit old, yes, everyone's played it, BUT i just bought it for 6 dollars, and it cannot get better than this! Square Enix, the guys behind Just Cause 2 and Kane and Lynch 2: Dog Days have surprised us with a game that tells an interesting sci-fi story that can be boring at times, but still has some awesome moments.
PRESENTATION
DE:HR is a game that has a few genres in itself. First you will notice RPG elements for upgrading (upgrades use syntaxes or whatever they're called, which are gained by picking them up, solving objectives and leveling up by reaching a certain amount of gained XP), then you will notice both FPS and TPS elements as you change from cover to cover, from crouching stance to normal stance. The cover system is really good, reminds me much of Splinter Cell: Conviction whose one was one of the best ones. By moving forward, you will face hacking puzzles that aren't hard at all, just require a bit of patience when listening to the tutorial about it. It consists out of one network made out of a few PCs. The PCs are taken over (virtually) and via them you access other PCs that lead you to the core of the network. It may sometimes happen that you get lost in place, thus don't know where to go because the game has many paths, both in hallways and conversations. The campaign lasts for good 10-12 hours (12 if you grab every chance to find collectibles scattered around sandboxes that the game offers you to explore. You play as Adam Jensen, a victim of an attack started by enemy soldiers with a goal to take down Adam's firm. The firm moves to Washington DC, then heals Adam, and boom! He's back, with brown shadies! Some conversations i found boring, but you can actually upgrade Adam's conversation ability into sexual talking (only with women and girls, guys are totally unnecessary). Svery conversation has choices to choose, each with its own ending, but not really story-changing. For ex. my boss would ask me which gun i would carry with me to the mission, which sort of approach would i take (silent or loud), which way in would i take etc. The thing is, missions always end in the same way, but most of them have different ways of completing, some ways weren't even planned by the developers in the first place.
GRAPHICS
The game looks pretty even for today's standards, better than most of today's games to be more accurate. I didn't push the game on high settings and i still managed to get soft shadows, neat textures, effects, character faces etc. The game can be ran in DirectX 9 aswell as in DirectX 11, but the DirectX 10 looks don't really differ from the ones in DX 11. Overall, your PC needs any kind of a dual core processor, with 2 GB of RAM, also a GPU with 256 MB and Shader 3.0 support.
NO MULTIPLAYER
THE VERDICT
Deus Ex: Human Revolution is a cheap game for a lot of guaranteed fun. I didn't really buy it over Steam because it costs 20 dollars there, instead i bought a standard copy from a video game store near me. I give this definition of sci-fi action a 9.5 because it's story mode conevrsations and topics could have been better. For more game reviews, check out my blog. Laters.
PRESENTATION
DE:HR is a game that has a few genres in itself. First you will notice RPG elements for upgrading (upgrades use syntaxes or whatever they're called, which are gained by picking them up, solving objectives and leveling up by reaching a certain amount of gained XP), then you will notice both FPS and TPS elements as you change from cover to cover, from crouching stance to normal stance. The cover system is really good, reminds me much of Splinter Cell: Conviction whose one was one of the best ones. By moving forward, you will face hacking puzzles that aren't hard at all, just require a bit of patience when listening to the tutorial about it. It consists out of one network made out of a few PCs. The PCs are taken over (virtually) and via them you access other PCs that lead you to the core of the network. It may sometimes happen that you get lost in place, thus don't know where to go because the game has many paths, both in hallways and conversations. The campaign lasts for good 10-12 hours (12 if you grab every chance to find collectibles scattered around sandboxes that the game offers you to explore. You play as Adam Jensen, a victim of an attack started by enemy soldiers with a goal to take down Adam's firm. The firm moves to Washington DC, then heals Adam, and boom! He's back, with brown shadies! Some conversations i found boring, but you can actually upgrade Adam's conversation ability into sexual talking (only with women and girls, guys are totally unnecessary). Svery conversation has choices to choose, each with its own ending, but not really story-changing. For ex. my boss would ask me which gun i would carry with me to the mission, which sort of approach would i take (silent or loud), which way in would i take etc. The thing is, missions always end in the same way, but most of them have different ways of completing, some ways weren't even planned by the developers in the first place.
GRAPHICS
The game looks pretty even for today's standards, better than most of today's games to be more accurate. I didn't push the game on high settings and i still managed to get soft shadows, neat textures, effects, character faces etc. The game can be ran in DirectX 9 aswell as in DirectX 11, but the DirectX 10 looks don't really differ from the ones in DX 11. Overall, your PC needs any kind of a dual core processor, with 2 GB of RAM, also a GPU with 256 MB and Shader 3.0 support.
NO MULTIPLAYER
THE VERDICT
Deus Ex: Human Revolution is a cheap game for a lot of guaranteed fun. I didn't really buy it over Steam because it costs 20 dollars there, instead i bought a standard copy from a video game store near me. I give this definition of sci-fi action a 9.5 because it's story mode conevrsations and topics could have been better. For more game reviews, check out my blog. Laters.
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