Deus Ex 3 "puts almost everything else in the genre to shame"

[Great Rumbler]

PC Gamer - 96/100
PC Gamer UK - 94/100
OXM - 10/10

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

[Dark Jaguar]

Deus Ex 3 is a prequel? I guess they're going with the "because I said so" system of sequel numbering.

[Great Rumbler]

It's actually called Deus Ex: Human Revolution, no number in the title.

Same as the second game, actually.

[Great Rumbler]

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.

[A Black Falcon]

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?

[Great Rumbler]

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".

[Dark Jaguar]

My friend is picking the game up soon. That is all.

[Great Rumbler]

Here are some screenshots I took:

[Sacred Jellybean]

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.

[Great Rumbler]

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.

[Sacred Jellybean]

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?

[Great Rumbler]

No, it's pretty much garbage.

http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu.ph...Force+630a

[Sacred Jellybean]

Rats.

[Dark Jaguar]

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.

[A Black Falcon]

Onboard graphics are always bad, SJ. You do still need a videocard to get decent graphics.

[Great Rumbler]

[Great Rumbler]

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]