Viva La Human!

This is the day I have waited a very long time for (Well honestly the day I played the game was the day I waited for but still!)...

Deus Ex: Human Revolution.

It is only fair that I compare it to the original Deus Ex and point out the good and bad points.

First off the tutorial/prologue shows you the basic mechanics of the game while also introducing you to the story. It is quite nice as you don't feel like you are doing a tutorial. This is different from the original in that there is no ACTUAL tutorial assault course.

A big change from the original game is the removal of the skills/experience system. You still gain experience for completing quests and exploring etc. But now instead of putting your experience into certain skills you use that experience to level up your augmentations. This, while not keeping exactly with the original, was a slight enough difference that it didn't take away from the "levelling" feel of the game.

Human Revolution gave you several ways to approach scenarios in keeping with the series. However it has limited those choices to quite a large extent. This was rather disappointing but to be fair it is rather difficult to script the freedom you had in Deus Ex as the freedom was only there pretty much as a glitch or a non-scripted sequence. It still felt lacking in a lot of areas however when you could only go certain ways and not be as creative as in the original.

As in the gameplay, the conversations were slightly more restricted too. There was a nice new feature added however that I quite enjoyed that allowed you to influence people. I was very glad that this was added as it did free up conversations somewhat.

One thing that really disappointed me about the game however was the intro music. It wasn't the classic Deus Ex theme, a crucial part of any Deus Ex game (even Invisible War had it!)

Deus Ex: Human Revolution is in my opinion a very worthy sequel to the classic Deus Ex. It is not exactly the same in all aspects but the bits that have changed have, for the most part, changed for the better.

And let's face it... Your character is a bad-ass!