It’s no Doom Eternal, but being able to dodge between cover and blind-fire in third-person - what was a controversial move give the last two games only first-person - let you survive fights in which Jensen was completely outgunned.īut the real joy came from manipulating the game’s flexibility.
On the hardest “Deus Ex” difficulty, Human Revolution forces you to think tactically about engaging in combat, meaning you’ll need to employ all manner of equipment and augmentations, such as cloaking or the being able to move at superhuman speeds.Īnd the actual gunplay itself is pretty neat, too. The art direction is simply exceptional, with the developers coining the term “Cyber Renaissance” to create modernized versions of the clothing and architecture of the 15th and 16th centuries I’d found myself wandering the small Detroit hub area simply admiring the coats and jackets of random characters. Speaking of today, while Human Revolution’s graphics engine is dated, it still looks very nice. You could sneak, snipe, tranquilize, hack or simply circumnavigate a lot of threats in the game I took great joy in knocking out guards as part of a non-lethal run, and stuffing them into vents or secluded corners, chuckling away to myself as I imagine them groggily waking up and wondering how they ended up in compromising positions with their comrades. But that actually worked in Human Revolution’s favor, offering smartly designed environments with all manner of things to look at, uncover, hack and blow up.Īnd like the original game, you could approach objectives in a variety of ways, including not killing any enemies in the entire game.
And it didn’t there was no skills system and missions took place in smaller spaces. With modern graphics, I was worried that Human Revolution would fail to deliver the scale of the original game.
Deus Ex offered a huge amount of systems and flexibility to approaching missions in levels that felt huge for a game from 2000. It was a risky move by developer Eidos Montreal, given it was looking to develop a game that was very much trying to be a modernized version of arguably one of the best games of all time.
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