Deus Ex is pretty much like the reviews but with less options than the reviews I read made you think. You really need to be stealthy as any time you get ‘caught’ you’re going to get killed. I am playing on the highest difficulty though. But it is certainly a stealth game. Run and gun just doesn’t seem to work. But you do have a couple of paths with the stealth usually.
I’m having fun with it. Nothing in and of itself is particularly terrific but the whole thing makes for a fun game. YMMV.
I’m about half way through and my biggest complaint is that to do any hand to hand you use one of your energy cells. I’ve put a lot of praxis (xp reward for upgrading your augments) points into upgrading those for more and faster recharge but they don’t seem to recharge beyond two cells (I have five) except through items found or purchased. They don’t even refill between missions.
There are other things that use the cells as well that I’d like to try but they are sort of stingy with the recharge items and I think I’d more or less lose my ability to sneak up and choke out a guard or hamper those other abilities to nearly one time use.
So I feel like I’ve gone upgrade path A instead of path B but the game is really more Path AB which you feel under equipped for.
Which leads to the other thing about the game. It seems to have a pretty high replay factor with a ‘what if I try this’ aspect to it. Once you know what happens the game might really shine as you can create a ‘plan’ from moment one.
Decent buy but I won’t be pre-ordering a sequel.
