Incredible Deus Ex 3 Preview / Review

[skulkingghost]

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/05/11/ten-things-you’ll-think-playing-deus-ex-3/

This game isn’t just good, it’s fantastic.

This is the obvious one. The art design is gorgeous, there’s loads to explore, and the whole package is so polished you can see your grinning face in it.

Better still, while the bugs you’d expect to find in code that hasn’t finished the full gauntlet of quality assurance were present, almost none of them affected how the game plays. No crashes to desktop, no guards being alerted while I was behind cover, no broken quests. Just the camera occasionally placing itself inside an NPC’s mouth, and the wrong text appearing underneath tutorial videos. Eidos Montreal could release this game tomorrow and it it’d still be in a better state than plenty of PC releases.

As for the game proper, after ten hours spent guiding protagonist Adam Jensen through dangerous conversations (his asbestos growl occasionally reveals a Detroit twang), as well as unforgiving infiltrations, a few firefights and an implausible number of air vents, I was left hungry. Both metaphorically – I was having an incredible time, and right on the cusp of fully removing the first layer of Human Revolution’s conspiracy – and literally.

I started playing Human Revolution on Saturday morning. I’d come home with a hangover, having eaten no breakfast. I didn’t stop to eat anything until late in the evening. It’s been a long time since a game’s managed to starve me like that.

This advance preview / review sounds amazing. Deus Ex was my favorite game of all time. I was worried about 3, but this just alleviated all my fears!

 

[JSt0rm]

the game may be good but that appears to be a fluff piece.

 

[paperfist]

Impressive words coming from RPS.

 

[Harrod]

I like these games, my problem is I get bored about 2/3rd's of the way through them and start going on a killing spree, I really hope that they have programmed it out of the game so I can't do that.

 

[sandorski]

I like these games, my problem is I get bored about 2/3rd's of the way through them and start going on a killing spree, I really hope that they have programmed it out of the game so I can't do that.

No problem. If you're about to shoot the wrong people, a Cut Scene shows you going over to them and giving them a hug.

 

[motsm]

Lulz. Just found out the game features current era in game advertising.

http://games.on.net/article/12481/Hands-On_Deus_Ex_Human_Revolution_PC_Version

 

[StinkyPinky]

Lulz. Just found out the game features current era in game advertising.

http://games.on.net/article/12481/Hands-On_Deus_Ex_Human_Revolution_PC_Version

In game advertising in Deus Ex 3 would be ok if done well. Like just a banner for McDonalds plastered on a billboard in detroit. Would actually add to realism as real cities have ads everywhere.

However, including real life 2011 era prices on that just blows the realism out of the water.

 

[motsm]

In game advertising in Deus Ex 3 would be ok if done well. Like just a banner for McDonalds plastered on a billboard in detroit. Would actually add to realism as real cities have ads everywhere.

However, including real life 2011 era prices on that just blows the realism out of the water.

It apparently includes a photo of some local celebrity, so it's a bit ridiculous if you ask me. If it was some modernized ad ripped out of Minority Report or something, I'd have no problem with it.

 

[StinkyPinky]

It apparently includes a photo of some local celebrity, so it's a bit ridiculous if you ask me. If it was some modernized ad ripped out of Minority Report or something, I'd have no problem with it.

Yeah that's tacky.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

Deus Ex is the most overrated game of all time. Even more so than Bioshock. Deus Ex 3 will be equally as disappointing.

 

[Inspector Jihad]

Deus Ex is the most overrated game of all time. Even more so than Bioshock. Deus Ex 3 will be equally as disappointing.

i wish NZ didn't have internet.

 

[Liet]

I think they just got it, along with electricity, in the 80s.

Anyway, this new Deus Ex will be shit. I'm disappointed with both of the reviews linked for not going in-depth on what has been dumbed-down and consolized.

 

[Rezident]

Deus Ex is the most overrated game of all time. Even more so than Bioshock. Deus Ex 3 will be equally as disappointing.

You're a right little ray of sunshine aren't you? Being able to predict the future must be depressing. Added to Ignore List.

 

[JTsyo]

Played one and liked it. Didn't try two. Hopeful for 3.

 

[Arglebargle]

Deus Ex is the most overrated game of all time. Even more so than Bioshock. Deus Ex 3 will be equally as disappointing.

With logic like that, how can we disagree....??

On to somewhat legit discourse:

The RPS report gave some good reasons to be hopeful about the game, while not white washing some of the problems. I'm not a huge fan of the Montreal group developing, but they have, at least, put out major games. Games that other folks did like. Anyway, I have my fingers crossed on this one.

 

[VulgarDisplay]

the game may be good but that appears to be a fluff piece.

RPS has some of the most console hate filled writers on all the internet. They are probably the best PC gaming site on the internet.

That being said I'm still going to wait for reviews because I preordered Brink, and yet again got fucked.

No more preordering. Games from DICE, Bioware, and Valve still get a free pass though.

 

[Schadenfroh]

Deus Ex is the most overrated game of all time. Even more so than Bioshock. Deus Ex 3 will be equally as disappointing.

Play Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines instead, it is like Deus Ex with sexy women and vampires.

 

[Phobic9]

RPS has some of the most console hate filled writers on all the internet. They are probably the best PC gaming site on the internet.

That being said I'm still going to wait for reviews because I preordered Brink, and yet again got fucked.

No more preordering. Games from DICE, Bioware, and Valve still get a free pass though.

I'm surprised you still trust Bioware to make a quality game. I'm the biggest Bioware fanboy I know, but Dragon Age 2 was like they spit in my mouth. Gross.

Anyway on topic, I didn't the 1st Deus Ex because I thought it was boring as hell. I'm shock to see there was a part two let alone a third game which is about to be released.

 

[Red Hawk]

Speaking as a BioWare fanboy, they have lost my highest respect for Dragon Age. The DLCs were lackluster (Witch Hunt was a slap in the face) and from what I heard DAII was disappointing and changed things that didn't need to be changed, making it more of an action game, further restricting exploration, recycling environments, and on top of all that being buggy as hell. While I'm sure there's still a good game and plot in there, I'm holding off buying it until the price comes down. Way down.

Mass Effect is a different ball of wax, though. A whole different studio within BioWare works on it. It started as a shooter, so while the sequels can be accused of focusing a bit too much on the shooter side, it's not like it wasn't a shooter game in the first place -- unlike how Dragon Age was not really an action game in the first place. While Mass Effect 1 recycled lots of environments, Mass Effect 2 actually made environments more varied. Mass Effect 2 was less buggy and more stable than Dragon Age Origins and DAII, and not just because of the outsourced engine (just look at Alpha Protocol or even Mass Effect 1 for examples of poorly optimized and unstable Unreal Engine games). The DLCs, IMHO, have been exemplary, if a bit on the short side. I still hold the studio that makes Mass Effect in the highest respect, and will preorder the collector's edition of Mass Effect 3 to place alongside the CE of ME2.

Whoa! That was way off topic. Back on topic -- I'm pretty excited for DE3. The trailers look awesome, and it seems to have the same kind of appeal as the Mass Effect series -- a high-tech sci-fi RPG/shooter. I need to get around playing at least the first game before playing this, though. The recommended system requirements kind of worry me -- I recently ordered a C2Q Q6600 and a Radeon HD 5770, but the recommended requirements are higher than that. Hopefully I can still pump up the eye candy at 1080p.

 

[shortylickens]

the game may be good but that appears to be a fluff piece.

Looks like a fluff piece, sounds like a fluff piece, I do not trust.

Sorry, but if hardly anything bad is said about it, then I know its mostly bull.
You know why I like Yahtzee? He's not completely full of crap.

Will wait for the actual game to come out so we can have an actual review.

 

[Red Hawk]

There is one game that Yahtzee could not find a single flaw in and had nothing but praise for it. Portal.

 

[zinfamous]

I think they just got it, along with electricity, in the 80s.

Anyway, this new Deus Ex will be shit. I'm disappointed with both of the reviews linked for not going in-depth on what has been dumbed-down and consolized.

either you have played it thoroughly and have made a fair review, or you're knee-jerking to a bunch of internet tomfoolery and mass assumption.

 

[KaOTiK]

either you have played it thoroughly and have made a fair review, or you're knee-jerking to a bunch of internet tomfoolery and mass assumption.

The part you bold is almost a given nowadays when a games targeted audience is the console crowd.

 

[skulkingghost]

Deus Ex is the most overrated game of all time. Even more so than Bioshock. Deus Ex 3 will be equally as disappointing.

So whats your top 5 games if you know so much about gaming?

 

[jonks]

what's with calling it a fluff piece? there's plenty of criticism in the p/review.