1. Othrandur

   10

   This is one of those rare awe-inspiring games. The atmosphere is just perfect and the musical score just enhances it. Some scenes are just jaw-dropping. The gameplay is also spot on. The controls are responsive (except mousing over keys on keypads), the graphics are sharp, the story is compelling and the characters are interesting. A warning, though: when you first play the game, some things may irritate you, but you will soon see that they make sense. Your inventory size is limited and you often have to leave behind precious things that you KNOW you'll need later. But that makes sense. No matter how much you're enhanced, you're not a pick-up truck. Already, the game makes unrealistic concessions to allow you to tote a bazooka, a sniper rifle, a mini-gun, and crates of ammo through public places without being noticed or even through metallic air ducts without making a sound. You might want to try a Schwarzenegger-like charge through a cluster of enemies, only to find that a single bullet can kill you. Well, shucks. A bullet really CAN kill you. The game forces you to play smarter than the usual shooter. That's a good thing. At first, the hacking just seems arbitrarily frustrating and you might try to avoid it at all costs... until you figure out how it works, and then it becomes fun! The only thing that remains that still frustrates me is that you can't carry more than one of each type of weapon (to sell them). If you have a pistol and you pick up a second pistol, it gets converted to ammo and you're left not with two pistols but one pistol with more ammo. But that's a drop of lameness in a bucket of awesomeness. And yet more awesomeness: you really can play this game many ways. Early decisions have an impact on later events, so you can replay it trying out different approaches and you will see different results. The result is that you'll probably replay it many times, playing the good guy, the bad guy, etc. This might not be a fair comparison, but the nanosuit in Crysis does "feel" more powerful than the enhancements in Deus Ex. I wouldn't mind a cross-over where I could play DE using a nanosuit, just to compare. :)… Expand

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2. MAC7421

   6

   Deus Ex Human Revolution is a good game but it is still a little overrated. I am hearing that you can choose to go stealth or shoot them all to death and this game is an amazing rpg when Stealth, Shooting and RPG elements in this game are average at best and if you are planning on playing it as a shooter than dying will be a real b**tch as enemies are really overpowered and health bar depletes really fast however still you will have a different experience depending upon the route you take but there is a lack of incentive for playing it as a shooter as you clearly get more EXP when you are being stealthy and I also think that the stealth elements in the game could have been implemented better. Another problem is that hacking is way to important you will be forced to spend points on hacking every time you gain because almost every side or main mission has a door and safe that has to be unlocked and it is impossible without having a specific level of hacking skills. The boss battles are generic shootouts and are poorly designed apart from the final boss which I thought was well designed and had a decent pattern to it. The voice acting is good but the dialogue can be a little corny and cheesy at times. The graphics are outdated but still good, the environments and character models are well detailed but their facial animations during the talking segments look a little clunky. As far as the Story goes than it was well written and in depth, it can still get complex and confusing at times but things will start connecting together soon enough however sadly none of the conversions have any impact on the ending of the game and the endings of game also seem very underwhelming and incomplete they never show what became of the main characters at the end of the game . The music and length of the game are good but that is not enough to make this game as great and epic of an experience people are making it out to be. 6/10.… Expand

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3. Bugmenot

   3

   The game has potential, but suffers terribly due to consolization. Atrocious model- and texturework. The higly stylized yellow filter can't hide the fact that on a technical level this game looks worse that 5 year old games. Not to mention recent PC exclusives like The Witcher 2. The XP system is totally broken. It encourages grinding rather than focusing on objectives. If you really put your mind to it you can max every single augumentation by the end of the game. Further amplified by the fact that about half of the augs are worthless or boring (or both - hacking node fortification anyone?) The hacking minigame - while fun ininitally - gets old really quick as there are hundreds upon hundreds of terminals to hack in the game. Especially once you spend some augs into hacking it just boils down to mindlessly clicking every single node, occasionally spending a stop worm if you run out of time. Talk about time sink. Level design seems pretty good and open at first, but soon you realize the multiple paths are very similar to one another. You hack a door, or bash the wall around the corner, or crawl through a shaft 2 meters away - all leading to the same goal. And of course if you want to max your XP you do all 3 of those in succession. Very lame. On the positive side: the conspiracy story is quite good, and I liked the soundtrack.… Expand

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