Deus Ex: Human Revolution PC review

I was a big fan of Deus Ex - the original 2000 game. It had a great cyberpunk theme and story, and specially great choices on how you could approach an objective.

You could use stealth, non-lethal weapons or just go in guns blazing - your choice.

Deus Ex: Human Revolution is very much like it in this sense. In addition, they got RPG style quests.


The graphics are beautiful and the sound is good. The gameplay is a bit different from the original, with heavy use of cover and a food based energy system. There is also a mini-game when hacking, which is somewhat original and actually fun.

You have plenty of options on your Augmentations, such as improved hacking, armor, cloaking, and much more. You can receive Augmentation points through XP, buy them or just find them lying around. The latter shows part of the exploration mindset in the game - it can be very rewarding to go around looking for goodies.

You might have to - it is amazing how stingy the ammo is. Clearly you are not expected to get into many firefights.

And in fact, that is where the game shines. It plays much nicer as a stealth game. There usually is an approach where you can just use takedowns (where you approach an enemy from behind and either knocks him out or kill him with your bare hands) to reach your objective.

This does take patience as well as some trial and error, but it is more rewarding than just shooting everyone (including extra XP points).

Takedowns do drain your batteries, which are annoyingly tiny. You can expand this further with Praxis points too, just as your tiny inventory space.

I found the stun gun to be just plain fun, since you have instant silent unconscious enemy. Low ammo so far too, though.

I'll update this post as I play more.