Deus Ex Human Revolution - Augmented Edition -Xbox 360

This game has a great mix of everything and I am a newcomer to the Deus Ex franchise that was introduced on the PC. I am only a console gamer but after playing this game I wish I played the prior games. The way you can tackle different objectives in the game is incredible! Before I get too carried away, the game is about you as Adam Jensen who acts like a detective in trying to uncover a massacre at a corporation you work for and that attacked you. The attack nearly killed you so they implemented augmentations to bring you back. These augmentations are like perks. There is various one that do different things such as lift heavy objects, become a more skilled hacker, see through walls, jump higher, more resistant to bullets, and so on. There is countless of them.Now the game is presented somewhat like a RPG with XP that can be gained in multiple ways such as discovering hidden paths, killing enemies, hacking things, and so on. You gain agumentations after so much XP you gain. What I love a lot about the game is the level design in how you achieve your objections for example there is a building you need to get to, you can jump to it by a fire escape from another building, you can hack the gate, or you can stack objects and hop over. It even allows you to different things with side missions when it comes to the core mission. I won't get into that which could spoil things but I will say they are very elaborate and not a bunch of fetch quests. They are all fun to do.As for the visuals and sounds, top notch. I think the characters are not the best looking or animated as well as other high caliber games but its ok and the game itself has a great art design. The music is also fitting for the futuristic setting. It has a lasting sound that can be memorable.Now the game has a lot of replay value and the game has multiple endings. I have fun searching through every nock and cranny. It is filled with little secret areas that have hidden items and secret paths through vents for short cuts. It is an incredible game and a game that I want to do play more than once. I highly recommend this game. It allows you to play the game the way you want with all out action with multiple weapons from a pistol, stun gun, to a rocket launcher (and all these weapons are upgradable) or sneaking around without being seen. It doesn't penalize you in any way. You will get XP from everything and it makes the game fun and makes me want to play again in a different way and make different choices. What I mean by choices is that there will be dialogue sessions where you can make choices and your actions will have an effect to what happens in the future.Get this game if your want to go on an adventure. The shooting aspect isn't as good as more focused shooter but it balances being a RPG and an adventure game tremendously. It is a game that is hard to put down after you get your hands on it. It is a must buy! Now should you get the augmented edition? It has nice extras but I don't like that it doesn't come in the standard case. It comes in a paper box that is covered by the plastic cover. I don't mind that but it might have made me get the regular edition.

I like what Deus Ex tried to do, but ultimately it is a game with only fair gameplay. The story tries to be very interesting, but at times I didn't feel like I had a good grasp of the plot and the characters involved. Most of the character models looked bad, and being so story based it made it difficult to focus. The over-arching story line leaves a bit to be desired, and the environments are bland. The one bright spot is the ability to tackle objectives in many different ways. You can be stealthy and take out enemies, or sneak around and avoid conflict. The hacking mini-games are confusing at first, and boring once you understand it.The gameplay mechanics have some interesting parts, but some of the upgrades seemed pointless. After leveling up your character a bit, the combat is not overly challenging, and gets repetitive. I think there are some good ideas here, but it seems like it wasn't honed down to the best parts.I played through the game to the end, and felt glad that it wrapped up. The Augmented Edition adds some nice extras, but only take a look at this if you're very interested in the series, or are looking for another action RPG to tide you over. Decent, but forgettable.

I got this game having no real prior experience to the old Deus Ex games. ( I had only played a couples hours of the older ones.)I have to say the story is amazing. Who you chose to kill or let live does make a real impact in game play that feels intense and relative to the story line. It has real depth and an thought-out ending to the game.It will also make you really question is transhumanism going to be an accomplishment for humanity or a tool to control it.Chosing different dialouge options does effect immensely what will happen in the game.I would save before important dialoge moments/cinematics and watch the multiple different way sceanrios would play out.Characters would say quite differents things instead of just changing one or two sentences.The stealth mechanics are solid. No problems of enemies randomly finding me cause I was just too close.If I was completely out of their line of sight they did not see me. However, I thought this was highly addictive and fun, was the fact they can still hear you even out of their line of sight.I remember a couple times I did not pay attention to my enviroment while sneaking behind a desk and stepping on glass, papers, etc. to have the guards notice the noise and go check it out.Enemy AI is quick and swift. In most games on spotting enemies it takes them a couple seconds to realize you exist and then start firing, although experienced gamers at this point would have mowed two or three of them down. Like real military personnel, they would carry their guns in front of them facing forward so as soon as the AI sees you it starts firing. While the AI is firing at you the other AIs will find cover and then start firing at you then work to flank you.I saw many reviews of people complaining about the boss battles being unskippable or avoidable and that they were too hard. Honestly, I never ran in to this problem or as bad as they make it seem.If you want to know more about the boss battles read more below or skip below to more of the Deus Ex review.Spoiler Alert!In the first boss battle he has a machine gun while I only had a measely taser, pistol, and mini uzi.I easily died 5 times trying to just blow this boss away with gun power, however this was not working.I figured heck maybe if I taz his #$% he`ll lock up for a second or make a comment about it.Suprisingly it froze him for a full 5 seconds, plently of time to get to new cover. I tired this tactic for a while to mow him down, but I still kept getting killed. Eventually, I noticed explosive barrels and tried throwing them at him, but whenever I picked one up he shot it blowing me up.After a while (total of 10mins into this boss fight) I worked out that if I tazed him, grabbed an explosive barrel, threw it at him and then shot it with my pistol the fight was over in less than 2 mintues.Again if you use your enviroment in Deus Ex properly none of the boss battles are truly too difficult. You just gunning bosses down as you usually do in other games (Gears of War) won`t cut it in this game.Spoilers over!I have to say that this was defintely a game changer for Square Enix. I was a little reluctant to purchase this game when I knew they were involved. Thinking it was going to be like Final Fantasy or countless other of their RPG games. With Deus Ex, Square Enix has shown that they can enter the first-person shooter RPG realm for consoles and succeed with flying colors or in this case glossy techno limbs.Because of how awesome Deus Ex was, I am looking forward to Square Enix`s take on the Lara Craft series coming out and will be purchasing it. The only complaint I have about the game is you have to save constantly in certain parts of the game otherwise you have to start all over. The game only auto-saves when you make important decisions or when you enter a new area. This leads to the problem of if you have been in the same area for the last hour cleaning up crime in Detriot City, but get shot and killed, though you didn`t save you gotta replay it all over again.The love interest in the game is a little stale. (Again Square Enix is new to this, think of all the JRPG romances out there, not much of anything exciting happening.)If you are looking for a stealth game (Metal Gear Solid style) with some shooting and ducking(Gears) with awesome RPG abilities I highly recommend you pick up Deus Ex and discover what it is like to live in the future being an unstoppable force of robotics and man combined.