written by owen on 2025-Mar-30.

So I decided to give FarCry3 a break and installed Deus Ex Human Revolution(DEHR). It's fun. Very slow, simple controls. It feels like cyberpunk 2077 if it were made in 2011. This is what I like about revisiting these old 360 games - you can see things that you thought were new 2025. Everything is remix. Some buildings have floors with no down stairs. You can go up but you cannot go down but this is ok. There is enough of everything to make the spaces feel real.

The game is very brown/orange and the loading screens are a bit long. I played for about 2 hours, lots to look at, lots of fully voiced NPC dialog to listen and choices to make. Definitely will be playing it some more.

After finishing FC3 I really got back into this game. Trying hard to resist the urge to hack into every computer terminal just to read everyone's emails. It really brings out the voyeur in me. The more I play, the more I like the world and the little things that are hidden in the environment. I do a mix of stealth, guns out and hacking. It maybe possible to go all stealth but in some spots its hard to avoid shooting 10 guards in the head while hiding in a vent. The game likes boundaries but it kinda lets you do what you want in the off peak hours like a off duty cop.

I am not sure how many hours I've spent searching lockers and desk draws for credits instead of heading to the next mission marker. I enjoy that they spent time putting these things into the game.        You never know when you might need some extra credits to bribe someone. But having lots of credits is not the only way, you could just shoot everyone you see and suffer the consequences. That is what I like about this game versus something like Mirrors Edge which traps you into a box of nothingness. They are both old games but ME is just empty.

Conclusion

I like the game and the orange world. 9/10.

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