Deus Ex: Human Revolution – Review – XBox 360

By Corey Wallace (Writer - Co-Founder) on 28 August 2011 in Reviews, Xbox 360 with 182 Comments

The prequel to the first 2 games in the series from Eidos Interactive and Square Enix comes to the consoles this summer. Does it live up to the expectations of the 8 year wait from the last installment?

Story: You play as Adam Jensen, the security director for Sarif Industries, a developer of augmentations for people. On his first day, the headquarters are attacked and he is subsequently killed, but because the company makes augments, they fit him with them, and return him to work about 6 months later. Because the lead researcher for the augment project, Megan Reed, his girlfriend, was killed, Adam wants to find out who these assassins were and, wreak havoc on them.

Gameplay: The game is a first person shooter/RPG mix. Every kill or mission that you complete, you gain Praxis Points (XP). As you gain PP, you can rank up your augments. When you open the augments menu, you see that each body part has augments. Each time you level up you gain 1 point, though you can buy Praxis Kits for $5,000 at most of the shops. Ammo is plentiful and can be picked up as you kill enemies. You can buy upgrades or find them scattered around the world. There are a few types of collectibles that are in the world: eBooks, Hugh Darrow eBooks, and Pocket Secretaries. The eBooks are for just getting more PP, there are 29 Hugh Darrow eBooks and give you more PP collecting them all nets you an achievement/trophy. The Pocket Secretaries will most times include a pass code to a computer or door. You have 2 ways of getting through locked doors and computers, find a password which will not give you PP, or hacking it. Hacking, at first seems like a tough thing to do. The key to hacking is finding the circle icon in the hacking grid, and making it there before you run out of time. You have up to 5 chances before you can’t hack that one, though you can cancel the hack and it won’t count against you. You can choose to go through the game with guns blazing or go silent, sneaking through. There are 3 difficulty levels.

Sound/Graphics: Overall the loading times seems varied, sometimes being slow to go between areas and other times, not. It seems like the enemies will detect you more easily at times. Sometimes the HUD will disappear. Other then that the game seems pretty solid. There are no famous actors that do voice overs.

Overall: If you like First Person Shooters, Splinter Cell, the first 2 games in this series, or just a new game to play through that is fun, I would recommend it!

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