Deus Ex: Human Revolution

Greetings ladies and gentlemen, my hasn't it been a while, holy smokes!! February of last year?!?!?! Wow it's been a long time, so much has happened in that time, I moved to my own apartment, plenty of game releases and 2 book releases for Guild Wars 2 to bridge the story between them, but you aint here to read about my life, no! you are here for my review of Deus Ex: Human Revolution, which I for one was very excited for its release, having played and loved the first two, i still play them now, anywho, lets get down to the review shall we?

Deus Ex: Human Revolution is based in the year 2027, 25 years before the original. You  play the role of Adam Jenson, an ex SWAT member now gone private security who works for Sarif Industries, a company who is the worlds leading human augmentation specialist, basically if you lose a leg or an arm or something, they can give you an augment that works just like an actual limb. You go to several places during your time as Adam including Shanghai, which might I add, doesn't look like Shanghai as I thought it would in 16 years time but oh well.

Now, the thing about DEHR is that as you progress through the game you can upgrade your augments to better yourself , like increasing your time to be able to sprint, your hacking abilities, your ability to jump high and all that Jazz, I will admit that I was a bit put off about the whole augmented system at first because if you have ever played the previous Deus Ex titles you would know that its all based on biological modifications or biomod's for short, they didn't make your character look like you had just came out of a machine that's turned you into an android of some sorts (if you have ever seen superman 3 you would understand that part). On the plus side some of the augments you can get like the Tornado augment are good, but I wont tell you about them, you will have to find them out for yourself.

The hacking is pretty good and for a lot of it you have a screen for which you capture the nodes in order to complete the hack, to assist you with this you can get nuke and stopworm viruses which can help in the hacking, the stopworm can stop the server from detecting you for a certain amount of time before it resumes tracing you and the nuke virus can instantly capture a node for you, there will be times where you can capture all nodes in a hack without being detected by the server once, other times it could detect you after the first node has been captured so you will have to do some planning, if you are not the hacking type then look around for pocket secretaries as they normally contain pass-codes so that you don't have to do any hacking, me I like to do the hacking though, adds a bit more fun to it, just be careful not to be caught by the server though as it will disable the system for 30 seconds and sound any alarms it may be linked too, still though it is quite fun to do. One problem with the hacking though? YOU CANT HACK THE ATM'S!!!! that used to make the previous games quite entertaining, hacking the ATM's and vending machines and then watching the people run because it starts sparking lol.

A good thing they placed into DEHR is that every choice you make can affect the storyline, if you kill one person in one quest, you might not be able to do another quest later so make your choices carefully.

The story line, well it could be better to be honest, it starts getting predictable about a third of the way through so if you are looking for a game for the story I wouldn't suggest this one, now, if you are looking for a game where you could go all terminator style on people then this is a recommendation for you, the augments will come in very handy, some of the Steam Achievements are to try and play through the story without killing a single person except in the boss fights which can be very hard but luckily you can always knock people out which is also entertaining as there are several different cut-scenes for doing things like knocking people out or stealth killing people, just make sure you don't kill someone linked to a quest lol.

One of the quests that you can do in the story is to break into a police station, trust me when I say this, it was highly amusing to watch all them police officers running around trying to find me but couldn't see me because of stealth mode even when i was stood in front of them.

The weapons are pretty good, crossbows, rocket launchers, grenade launchers, stun guns, there is a decent arsenal in DEHR for how you might want to proceed through the story, if you decide to tackle the hard difficulty I will suggest that you get your inventory upgraded as quick as possible as even the ammo will take up space and you will be limited to just how many weapons you can carry.

All in all it was a good game to play, kind of short, in game play time it took me about 29 hours to beat if I remember correctly although I liked to take my time and explore everywhere, there is a good amount of replay value to be had, as stated above, the choices that affect the story can make it worth several replays to see what it is like if you made a different choice and with the addition of the DLC which is to be released in October of 2011, its worth a run through to see where the DLC may come into it.

I would give Deus Ex Human Revolution 8/10 if I was to rate it.

You have been a lovely audience now if you dont mind, get the hell out of my livingroom! you're getting mud all over my clean floor, hahahaha, keep an eye out for my next review, Dead Island, due within the next couple of weeks :)

Adios amigos/amigas and keep counting!