Even dialogue requires careful reading if you plan to use your “social enhancer” augmentation to get things your way. Frankly, I can’t imagine slogging through so much writing on a TV screen or having to use a controller to hack security consoles.
Players can choose to master hacking, which involves figuring out the best path through a set of nodes and rapidly clicking your way through as a timer counts down, attempting to slow down a trace as you go along. To get a handle on the story, one is expected to read pages upon pages of intercepted e-mails, personal diaries, and e-book excerpts. Players are asked to mouse around inventory, character configuration, and log screens, where they’ll find themselves agonizing over how to spend upgrade points and, just like in the original, reshuffling inventory items to save space for new discoveries. Fonts and user-interface elements are appropriately sized for a high-resolution display, and the graphics fit within a 16:10 form factor without letterboxing. Human Revolution shows almost no signs of consolitis. But for me, the most shocking part is that both games seem equally at home on the PC. Both games also have the kind of elaborate storytelling that leaves you scratching your head at times. Deus Ex wasn’t afraid to slather elaborate RPG elements onto an FPS experience, and happily, neither is the new sequel. Shockingly for a game released over a decade later by another studio, Human Revolution has a lot in common with its granddaddy. I slowly forgot about the Deus Ex series altogether-until, that is, news of Human Revolution started trickling out. Reports of that title being dumbed down and scaled down for the Xbox offended my sensibilities as a proud, 18-year-old PC gamer, and I decided to occupy my time with other games.
Ion Storm Austin managed to squeeze out a sequel in 2003 before getting shut down, but I never bothered with it. I recall some pretty bad stuttering on my then-speedy machine.) (The original release seemed to require some sort of supercomputer to run, though. Character interactions, side quests, and the intricate storyline all made the game feel broad and dynamic, like you were a real actor unraveling a complex web of conspiracies. Oh, sure, the gameplay mechanics borrowed heavily from System Shock 2, but there was a whole other dimension to it. I remember playing it on my 1GHz Athlon hot rod 11 years ago and enjoying every moment. Deus Ex: Human Revolution is just one of those games-the kind that has you persuading yourself to stop after just one more mission… before playing for another three hours and wondering where your evening went. Instead of writing, I found myself running around in circa-2027 Hengsha Island, China, splitting up my time between sleuthing, sneaking, and breaking bones. My plan was to start writing this post three hours ago, but that didn’t pan out.
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