Deus Ex Human Revolution on Xbox 360 – The DVDfever Review

Annoyances about the game:

• Unfortunately, you can’t change round the controls, as I’d like to swap ‘Take cover’ (Left Trigger) with your weapon’s targetting button (right joystick). As they stand, I got into a muddle with them early on and ended up brown bread. However, I did manage to get used to it, so stick with it. The option would’ve been nice, though.
  
• Loading in a saved position after you die takes a fair while.
  
• If you want to steal the ammo from a dead enemy’s gun, you have to walk over it and click X to ‘Take’. You can’t just walk over it like the average first-person shooter.
  
• Early on, there was no HUD (heads-up display) to show your ammo, health, etc. although this does come back later when the game starts proper. For health you have to go by how red the screen gets, although, as previously stated, it doesn’t take too long to kill you.
  
• Even when you do have someone in your sights, while hiding from a distance, it doesn’t prove effective all the time. Sometimes it feels like you’re just firing into thin air, as nothing seems to hit them. If you get a more close-up chance then it makes it easier.
  
• The ammo runs out VERY fast! And the second example gameplay footage I posted online shows a very weird, but amusing moment where I ran into a baddie who was firing at me and I was able to push him back whilst crouched down before escaping. I don’t know how I survived! You have to learn how to get quick head shots or a takedown with 2 bullets in order to conserve it.
  
• You can only pick up and throw and/or use certain objects, which makes it feel less of an interactive world than it should.
  
• You can try and discuss events and situations with a baddie to stop them from, for example, killing innocent civilians, but this tends to slow the game down when you just want to blast everything in sight.

Overall, with much-improved graphics and sound for this release and gameplay that improves the more you get into it – as it takes a little time to get used to its idiosyncracies, Deus Ex: Human Revolution is clearly head and shoulders above the previous games in the series, but could’ve done with more shoot-em-up action within.

There are four videos in this review and note that I’ve only provided some sample gameplay footage for this title because there’s no set beginning and end to the levels, as such: it just goes from A to B to C and so on.

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Deus Ex Human Revolution – example gameplay footage #3 (720p HD)

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Deus Ex: Human Revolution is available in three different versions.

The Limited Edition, which is the main one available for sale, includes:

• An entirely new extra mission
  
• Two weapons:
  • Linebacker G-87 multi-shot grenade launcher
    
  • M28 utility remote detonated explosives

• Auto-unlocking device

Augmented Edition:

• Exclusive bonus DVD featuring:
  • 44-minute making of
    
  • Game soundtrack
    
  • Motion comic, adapted from DC’s official comic series
    
  • E3 trailer and animated storyline

• 40-page art book

• Additional in-game content:
  • Exclusive mission
    
  • Multi-shot grenade launcher
    
  • Double-barrel shotgun
    
  • Silenced sniper rifle
    
  • Remote-detonated explosive device
    
  • Automatic unlocking device
    
  • 10,000 extra credits to buy or upgrade weapons

Collector’s Edition:

• Collectible Adam Jenson figurine
  
• Exclusive box-design (numbered)

• Exclusive bonus DVD featuring:
  • 44-minute making of
    
  • Game soundtrack
    
  • Motion comic, adapted from DC’s official comic series
    
  • E3 trailer and animated storyline

• 40-page art book

• Additional in-game content:
  • Exclusive mission
    
  • Multi-shot grenade launcher
    
  • Double-barrel shotgun
    
  • Silenced sniper rifle
    
  • Remote-detonated explosive device
    
  • Automatic unlocking device
    
  • 10,000 extra credits to buy or upgrade weapons

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Important info:

• Publisher: Square Enix
• Price: £49.99 (Xbox 360, PS3); £34.99 (PC)
• Players: single player campaign
• HDTV options: 720p/1080i/1080p
• Dolby Digital 5.1 sound: Yes

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Deus Ex Human Revolution – example gameplay footage #4 (720p HD)

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GRAPHICS SOUND GAMEPLAY ENJOYMENT	10 10 8 7
OVERALL	9

Limited Edition:

Augmented Edition:

Collector’s Edition: