PC Gamer - 96/100
PC Gamer UK - 94/100
OXM - 10/10
Quote:In an eight page review scoring the title with 94, Tom Francis [PC Gamer UK] calls it “A dark, cool and beautiful revival of an incredible game… Smart, substantial, funny, creative and endlessly entertaining.”
He goes on to say it’s ” absolutely the Deus Ex of our age, a genuinely worthy prequel, and a game that puts almost everything else in the genre to shame.”
http://whatculture.com/gaming/first-deus...res-94.php
Deus Ex 3 is a prequel? I guess they're going with the "because I said so" system of sequel numbering.
It's actually called Deus Ex: Human Revolution, no number in the title.
Same as the second game, actually.
Having played it for four hours myself, I can attest that the claim made in the thread title is largely true. It's the true follow-up to Deus Ex 1, Invisible War can now safely be forgotten.
That's good... so it's actually close in quality to the first game? Impressive...
What genre is that title talking about, though? FPSes in general, or something more specific?
I'd actually say it's better than the first game. It's got the obvious improvements brought about by 11 years of technology advancement [better graphics, physics, ect.] along with better voice-acting and writing [arguable on the latter, not on the former], a deeper skill tree, and a really cool hacking minigame. And it keeps the things that made the first so good: multiple ways to tackle objectives and missions, lots of sidequests to do for fun and profit, large hub areas to explore.
It's a true "sequel".
My friend is picking the game up soon. That is all.
Wow, it looks impressively immersive. I don't know if my computer could handle that, but if so, I might consider picking up the first PC game since... um... 13 years? I think the last one I actually bought was Redneck Rampage.
You need a fairly decent computer to run it, nothing too advanced though. I've got a Core 2 Duo and a 460GTX and it runs pretty smooth most of the time, except for a weird stutter sometimes when I'm walking around the larger environments.
My computer is new-ish, bought it just a few months ago, but it wasn't really top-of-the-line or anything. I'd probably need a bona fide graphics card instead of whatever this came with. Oh, NVIDIA GeForce 7025 / NVIDIA nForce 360a, apparently. Uh. That any good?
Yeah, time to upgrade. I'm using the "budget" Geforce 430, which supposedly "underperforms" compared to your's, but that's a DAMNED LIE! This thing is a big upgrade over what I had and I can run games like Dragonage II with max stats with only a little slow down like what GR mentioned. Granted, I'll be upgrading fairly soon. That 430 was only $60 so I got it to carry me through until I could afford something better, which is now.
Onboard graphics are always bad, SJ. You do still need a videocard to get decent graphics.
Some notes:
-This game is long. I've played for 14 hours and I'm still not anywhere close to the end.
-There are two hub areas: Detroit and Hengsha, China
-Hub areas are large and full of details [including secret areas and hidden caches of items], each hub also has several sidequests
-There are more than a dozen different skill trees that range from hacking to stealth to size of inventory, all are opened up through using Piraxis [which can be bought or earned through experience points]
-Dialog trees play a role in completing/advancing quests
-Playing stealthily and using non-lethal takedowns provide more experience point rewards
-Boss fights aren't that great, and force you to use combat rather than stealth [one of the few downsides]