#DEUS EX HONG KONG PC#
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Whilst it's a tad unecessary in the later levels, it's a nice addition to the earlier stages where often you're forced to use stealth for the sake of ammo conservation. I will say though that I like the increase in cover and flora. Hong Kong isn't as big as Hengsha in Deus Ex: Human Revolution - but I still love the feeling you get when you realise there's an entire foreign town that you've been left to explore at your own leisure. There are a ton of nooks and crannies left to explore. Versalife looks, feels, and is laid out exactly like a set of offices.

#DEUS EX HONG KONG PC#

Thankfully, almost sixteen years later, these are nothing to worry about thanks to PC hardware improving so much.ДЄnd whilst the levels weren't as expansive as the developers wanted them to be, they're still impressive. Also, the game had problems with long load times and ridiculously large save-files. However, this is because during the games development, originally the levels were so large that the game would frequently crash - so they had to be cut down otherwise only the most elite players would be able to play the game. Apparently the global anti-terrorist defense force only employs about twenty people and the Hong Kong markets consist of about six stalls. Yes, some levels felt a bit smaller than they could have been. It's like when an elderly person buys a new TV, and that enourmous monolith looks so out of place next to the net-curtains and green wallpaper. The enviroments are just old places with 'modern' technology slapped on them. It's so odd that Human Revolution has shiny, modern designs when the whole idea behind the world of Deus Ex is that the development of the common man is being repressed by conspiracy. The majority of the buildings in the world of Deus Ex are pre-milennial, and this is supposed to be a dystopia. It war rectancular, but then again think about how many buildings in the world are just rectangles. There were multiple routes to the objective, buildings were for the most part actual buildings with countless nooks and crannies. It's worth bearing in mind, however, that Deus ExВ certainly may not have the prettiest design but it's exceptionally functional.

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You can throw down skirting boards, carpets, handrails, panels - not everything has to be made out of a series of grey shoeboxes. Buildings can actually have slanted roofs.

Roads and pavements don't have to have 90 degree angle turns. Whilst you can make a valid arguement that the textures, 3D models, and character designs are all pretty bad because that's the best technology in 2000 could do - ThiefВ (released two years prior)В proved that the layout doesn't have to be so rectangular.

Instead, 'Revision' opts to adress another reason why Deus Ex can put off new players: the level design.

Yes, Half Life has those platforming sections and Half Life 2 has those gimmicky physics puzzles - but take them away and what do you have? You just have a shoot-em-up. I always pair Deus Ex with System Shock 2 because these are both games with huge faults.yet if you remove these faults then you remove the game. So it's nice of the team behind Deus Ex: Revision to completely ignore these flaws when making their mod, which is now available on Steam for free. 'Swimming' and 'Medicine' remains pointless, upgrading melee weapons is only useful if you're using the riot baton because you get a freaking lightsaber one quarter of the way through the game, tranquiliser darts are useless until fully-upgraded, and stealth-takedowns do the Thief thing where they sometimes just don't work. Whilst it's not nearly as unforgiving as System Shock 2, where you can die in the first ten mins if you didn't build your character correctly, you can still render the game infinitely more annoying by making the wrong decisions.and it's very easy to make them. If you don't turn play the tutorial and don't re-bind the autosave key then you're not going to make it past the first level. I still think it's one of the best games out there, but I'm always hesitant before reccomending it to anyone. Obviously, being from 2000 and looking like it's from 1998, the game hasn't aged brilliantly. Even it's inferior sequels/prequels/awful mobile games keep trying to scale things back down. It's a 2000 PC classic released at the peak of the Golden Age that combines shooting, roleplaying, and stealth to create an experience never seen before or since. If you don't know, Deus Ex is one of my favourite games.

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