MEDIA REVIEW
as everything – apartment doors, wall
safes, random doors in the slums – is
now locked with a digital keypad. This
means, if you don’t know the code, you
need to be able to hack. Jensen may
be able to punch through brick walls,
but a little keypad on a wooden door?
Impenetrable barrier!
I generally play in an aggressive
stealthy way (both in airsoft and
computer games). In Deus Ex: Human
Revolution this meant waiting for a gap
between patrols, knocking guards out,
of choice it didn’t seem that any
decisions I made mattered until right
at the end – and even that choice
just dictates which ending video you
watch. Remember to save at this
point and you can watch them all.
The design and layout of the game
world intensifies the lack of choice.
The game plays out fairly linearly and
there are only a few areas in which
you get to run around completing
side missions before progressing
with the story.
There’s no denying that the game
looks gorgeous though. It’s set in a
future only a few years from now,
though it has undergone some major
changes since. Technology has advanced
at an incredible rate and changed
the landscape considerably. Whether
sewers or city streets or slums, locales
look amazingly and believable thanks to
the game engine.
“You need to upgrade your
hacking skills to finish the game.
Jensen can punch through brick
walls, but a keybad on a wooden
door? Impenetrable barrier!”
The RPG elements of the game revolve
around saving up XP and spending it on
upgrades to your augmentations. This
covers everything from better hacking
and seeing through walls to complete
invisibility. There are a few things you
need to upgrade if you want to get
through