phyzik
08-07-2011, 11:34 PM
First: Beta is not open to the public, so I will not name my friend who had access to it...
Second: This is an account from me, Phyzik, not an article from Gamespy or anything like that.
I will try not to spoil it but I may drop a few here and there.
It plays pretty much through the first several missions (didnt complete them all.) in Detroit city. It ends when you start to head to Shangri La.
So The first part of the game, you start out as a "pure" human. No augments. Shit goes down and you are lead down a definate linear course to start out. Basically an extended tutorial. You end up getting your ass trashed pretty bad at the end of the first part. 6 months later, your augmented and get sent on another mission, although just a little bit less linear.
This is the second "augmented Tutorial" mission. Dont watch if you dont want spoilers, but even so, I found many different paths while playing through it that where not shown in the video....
Xvpl1PY_O4w
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What options you pick in the first "augmented tutorial" will affect what weapons you start out with. I dont know all the options as I only played through it twice, but highlight the rest of this quote to see what I learned: Generally, picking the agressive option with long range gives you a sniper rifle, a sub-machinegun and a shotgun.... picking the non-agressive route with close range gives you a stun gun, a shotgun and a tranq rifle (i think).
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It was at this point I got pretty discouraged, thinking the game was just a series of "missions" and not like the Deus Ex I remember. Thankfully, I was wrong.
After you complete the "tutorial" and the second "augmented Tutorial" you are thankfully given access to Detroit City. Now, its not Grand Theft Auto big, not by a long shot, but its a decent size and there are multiple paths to different area's.
There where multiple side quests, a few of wich I couldnt complete, either because I didnt have the augments, or just didnt know how to circumvent the obvious route (which is most likely the case).
The graphics are a bit disappointing but any Deus Ex fan (or any fan of solid, awesome gameplay) should be able to forgive this. Also, there where a TON of bugs in the beta version I played. Hopefully, they dont translate to the release version. I doubt they will, they where pretty minor. Things like models popping out of the floor suddenly, text in the tutorial video's being text from conversations of NPC's instead of the subtitle for the tutorial video itself and static models of supposed-to-be Dynamic models.
The game really does make you feel like a bad-ass augmented super-spy once you get passed the first few missions and get some good augments. I highly recommend playing as a stealth/hacker character. You get to see some interesting shit playing that way instead of the typical run-and-gun meat head.
All-in-all, after playing through the beta, I pre-ordered right after. It's Deus Ex thru and thru.
If anyone doubts I played the beta, I will gladly PM you the details of each mission, their discriptions, and how I completed the beta. Unless you played the beta though, you wont be able to believe me until you have played it yourself and see the mission descriptions yourself.
Needless to say, I think this is going to be an awesome addition to the Deus Ex franchise. Cant wait for the full release.
Second: This is an account from me, Phyzik, not an article from Gamespy or anything like that.
I will try not to spoil it but I may drop a few here and there.
It plays pretty much through the first several missions (didnt complete them all.) in Detroit city. It ends when you start to head to Shangri La.
So The first part of the game, you start out as a "pure" human. No augments. Shit goes down and you are lead down a definate linear course to start out. Basically an extended tutorial. You end up getting your ass trashed pretty bad at the end of the first part. 6 months later, your augmented and get sent on another mission, although just a little bit less linear.
This is the second "augmented Tutorial" mission. Dont watch if you dont want spoilers, but even so, I found many different paths while playing through it that where not shown in the video....
Xvpl1PY_O4w
___________________________________
What options you pick in the first "augmented tutorial" will affect what weapons you start out with. I dont know all the options as I only played through it twice, but highlight the rest of this quote to see what I learned: Generally, picking the agressive option with long range gives you a sniper rifle, a sub-machinegun and a shotgun.... picking the non-agressive route with close range gives you a stun gun, a shotgun and a tranq rifle (i think).
___________________________________
It was at this point I got pretty discouraged, thinking the game was just a series of "missions" and not like the Deus Ex I remember. Thankfully, I was wrong.
After you complete the "tutorial" and the second "augmented Tutorial" you are thankfully given access to Detroit City. Now, its not Grand Theft Auto big, not by a long shot, but its a decent size and there are multiple paths to different area's.
There where multiple side quests, a few of wich I couldnt complete, either because I didnt have the augments, or just didnt know how to circumvent the obvious route (which is most likely the case).
The graphics are a bit disappointing but any Deus Ex fan (or any fan of solid, awesome gameplay) should be able to forgive this. Also, there where a TON of bugs in the beta version I played. Hopefully, they dont translate to the release version. I doubt they will, they where pretty minor. Things like models popping out of the floor suddenly, text in the tutorial video's being text from conversations of NPC's instead of the subtitle for the tutorial video itself and static models of supposed-to-be Dynamic models.
The game really does make you feel like a bad-ass augmented super-spy once you get passed the first few missions and get some good augments. I highly recommend playing as a stealth/hacker character. You get to see some interesting shit playing that way instead of the typical run-and-gun meat head.
All-in-all, after playing through the beta, I pre-ordered right after. It's Deus Ex thru and thru.
If anyone doubts I played the beta, I will gladly PM you the details of each mission, their discriptions, and how I completed the beta. Unless you played the beta though, you wont be able to believe me until you have played it yourself and see the mission descriptions yourself.
Needless to say, I think this is going to be an awesome addition to the Deus Ex franchise. Cant wait for the full release.