Deus Ex: Human Revolution.

[J-Dogg]

Who else is excited for this game, i know am its like a week away for Aussies and only a few days for America, what can't you wait to do in this game (if you have seen videos and info on it already).

 

[One Punch Doug Crashin]

I'm very excited about this game. It sorta looks like Alpha Protocol in the graphics area. Still I'm hugely excited about it.

 

[J-Dogg]

I been figuring out the different ways i can play the game as there is 4 gameplay styles and I will mix it up with all 4 styles though.

 

[Gelgarin]

It's going to be a steaming pile of horse shit with nothing in common to the original outside of the name.

Deux Ex was produced for the glorious, now near extinction, PC gaming master race. New Deux Ex is being produced for the console tards. That's the short explanation.

The original Dues Ex was produced by Warren Spector, one of the greatest game directors of all time. When it comes to blending FPS gameplay with RPG elements there is nobody better in the industry. There is a reason why Deus Ex and System Shock still haven't been topped since their production.

The last time an attempt was made to update one of Spector's creations it produced the craptacular waste of time known as Bio Shock - otherwise known as Baby's first FPSRPG. Basically they took System Shock 2, cut out all of the depth and strategy, dumbed the difficulty down to ****** levels and then spent the rest of the afternoon rendering the Big Daddy sprites.

The end result was a completely generic, brown FPS with a few meaningless RPG elements tacked on for good measure and a bland an uninteresting moral choice system. The story was completely mediocre, disguised only by the bottomless depths of shit served up by most other games in a genre (Read: Gears of War and Halo).

This is exactly what I expect from Deus Ex. After the shit Kane and Lynch went through with critics there is absolutely no way the game is going to limit the ability of the protagonist's gun play as the original did. As such a franchise that was originally all about stealth and finding alternative ways of doing things is now going to present the player with the ability to run and gun through every situation. Released footage pretty much confirms that I'm right about this.

I'm sure the developers will still produce multiple routs to every objective, but when every player can simply shoot their way through every circumstance there is little incentive to take any of them. There also won't be anything like the depth of game world presented in the original. That's simply a product of the time period, with so much rendering now required to make a game graphically acceptable there is simply no possibility of building a world comparable to that of the original Dues Ex. It's the same reason Enix has been refusing to remake Final Fantasy 7 despite the whole game world clamoring for it for for years. This console generation has hurt game design like never before, and that is why you see so few PS3/360 on my list of game submissions.

Story will be shit. I have nothing to back this claim up, but I'll still be proven right. This game has been hyped for an age and is being marketed directly to a main stream gaming audience. As such you can guarantee not to run in to any challenging thoughts or ideas throughout the entire game play experience. If the narrative can manage to match that of the last worthwhile Call of Duty game then I'll consider it a bullet dodged. Low expectations.

At the end of the day, if you've never played Deus Ex then there's a good chance you'll like this. If you enjoy FPS gameplay and thought Bioshock was a really clever game then you're a moron who needs to read some actual books, but you'll probably get similar satisfaction out of this. However; if you've actually played and appreciated the original Deux Ex then you'll recognize Human Revolution for what it is. A repackaged, dumbed down version of an all time classic, inferior to its predecessor is almost every way.

Nothing would make me happier than being proved wrong... but I won't be.

 

[Chicago1989]

Without a doubt, Deus Ex: Human Revolution is August's biggest game. I was never a big Deus Ex fan from when they were on PC, but I've been checking out Human Revolution for sometime and it got me interested. It seems like a really deep and atmospheric RPG, where you get to customize a lot of stuff and play the game your way. I don't plan on getting this game on release day, but I still plan on getting it when the price drops and when I have nothing else to play.

Right now, I got Borderlands DLC, Fallout: New Vegas, and Dragonball: Raging Blast 2 to deal with..

 

[Shadowmancer]

Bio Shock was good for one thing and that is the art direction. But saying that Dues Ex isn't what is interesting me that is coming out. Space Marine is. That comes out September 6/9. Probably going to play that game.

 

[One Punch Doug Crashin]

It's going to be a steaming pile of horse shit with nothing in common to the original outside of the name.

Deux Ex was produced for the glorious, now near extinction, PC gaming master race. New Deux Ex is being produced for the console tards. That's the short explanation.

The original Dues Ex was produced by Warren Spector, one of the greatest game directors of all time. When it comes to blending FPS gameplay with RPG elements there is nobody better in the industry. There is a reason why Deus Ex and System Shock still haven't been topped since their production.

The last time an attempt was made to update one of Spector's creations it produced the craptacular waste of time known as Bio Shock - otherwise known as Baby's first FPSRPG. Basically they took System Shock 2, cut out all of the depth and strategy, dumbed the difficulty down to ****** levels and then spent the rest of the afternoon rendering the Big Daddy sprites.

The end result was a completely generic, brown FPS with a few meaningless RPG elements tacked on for good measure and a bland an uninteresting moral choice system. The story was completely mediocre, disguised only by the bottomless depths of shit served up by most other games in a genre (Read: Gears of War and Halo).

This is exactly what I expect from Deus Ex. After the shit Kane and Lynch went through with critics there is absolutely no way the game is going to limit the ability of the protagonist's gun play as the original did. As such a franchise that was originally all about stealth and finding alternative ways of doing things is now going to present the player with the ability to run and gun through every situation. Released footage pretty much confirms that I'm right about this.

I'm sure the developers will still produce multiple routs to every objective, but when every player can simply shoot their way through every circumstance there is little incentive to take any of them. There also won't be anything like the depth of game world presented in the original. That's simply a product of the time period, with so much rendering now required to make a game graphically acceptable there is simply no possibility of building a world comparable to that of the original Dues Ex. It's the same reason Enix has been refusing to remake Final Fantasy 7 despite the whole game world clamoring for it for for years. This console generation has hurt game design like never before, and that is why you see so few PS3/360 on my list of game submissions.

Story will be shit. I have nothing to back this claim up, but I'll still be proven right. This game has been hyped for an age and is being marketed directly to a main stream gaming audience. As such you can guarantee not to run in to any challenging thoughts or ideas throughout the entire game play experience. If the narrative can manage to match that of the last worthwhile Call of Duty game then I'll consider it a bullet dodged. Low expectations.

At the end of the day, if you've never played Deus Ex then there's a good chance you'll like this. If you enjoy FPS gameplay and thought Bioshock was a really clever game then you're a moron who needs to read some actual books, but you'll probably get similar satisfaction out of this. However; if you've actually played and appreciated the original Deux Ex then you'll recognize Human Revolution for what it is. A repackaged, dumbed down version of an all time classic, inferior to its predecessor is almost every way.

Nothing would make me happier than being proved wrong... but I won't be.

Why you gotta be so harsh Gelg? I know it's not going to be exactly like the original. Who cares though? I mean the concept is good, the augmentations seem to be like they're going to be VERY useful for gamers like me who adapt to every situation.

 

[J-Dogg]

I like everything about this game as do most people I have talked to even reviewers like it. I just seen a gameplay video and it shows the use of all the gameplay types and the fact you can play how it suits you is fantastic, the exploration of the cities to gain things is cool too. I'm looking forward to upgrading Augs and weapons to make me efficient in all areas of gameplay.

 

[One Punch Doug Crashin]

Deus Ex is available for Preload in Steam!