![]() ![]() It’s really worth stocking up on everything you see that will get power back into your internal batteries. If you are playing stealth, this can occur quite often if you aren’t careful with your power bar stash. Once the lift appears, it’s was time to stealth up again and run over. Hide out while they open fire with everything they got, spraying bullets in the hope that they hit me by accident. Slam the call lift button… wait, what do you mean it’s only calling it? Running away I dove into a vent. I was left with only one final option: an all-out sprint for lift. Walking… almost there… ARGH! Trooper turns around, looking STRAIGHT at me. What now? Can’t sprint as they’ll hear, so stealth up and walk over is the only option left. 1 bar energy is all I have, giving the stealth option for a few seconds. Quick check of inventory drat, no power bars. Tried sneaking around, looked for vents… but no luck. 10mm gun with silencer in the pocket, but no way to pick the enemy off without everyone opening fire on me. There I was in a room full of troops that I needed to get past. These come in various types: single bars, packs and big jug-type things. In order to regenerate the rest of them you will need to buy power bars. Your augmentation system can only automatically regenerate one used battery regardless of how many you actually have. A lot of the augments are dependent on “batteries” providing the internal power. I had quite a few shit-your-pants moments when sneaking around. Clearly I was being overly cautious, and in the next play-through I will definitely try some other augments. However, I still had about 5 points left at the end of the game. So augmentation-wise I boosted hacking, speech, a few strength augs and I heavily used stealth while playing. Think Batman: Arkham Asylum and you will have the general idea. Since I’m not very good at first person shooters, I naturally went down the stealth/persuasion route leading to a lot of hunting around for venting ducts. This has caused me to actually play a lot of the game without using them. There are quite a few augmentations you can choose, though you are limited to how many you can have. Instead, you automatically stand up to hack (and in my case get shot). Be warned though, for some strange reason people don’t like you hacking their stuff so best to remain hidden while doing it! I was a little annoyed that you cannot hack from a crouch position. There are various pieces of software that can help you along but you can also get augment upgrades to help you further. It’s like that pipe-flow game that you find on most phones these days, where you capture pathways to the goal before your opponent catches up with you. The hacking mini-game is an interesting addition. Some of them will have side quests for you but others will give you hints on routes around the city hubs, or even just current events in the local area. Another thing that’s tied into the side quests but very important is that while walking around the streets people will be having conversations it’s really worth listening to what they have to say. There’s the usual go-and-find-something-and-kill-it mission, or trying to talk people into telling you more information. A lot of the game is about finding out the peripheral story. I really wanted to know the details of this world. The main story line keeps drawing you in to the point where I almost ignored the side missions. You’re off to track down what on Earth is going on, and who’s doing it. You get shot to shit and wake up having been modified with military-grade augments – mechanical enhancements to replace parts of your broken body. Sure enough, a bunch of black ops guys break in, trash the place to high heaven and kill a bunch of the staff. Usual run-of-the-mill role – you defend the trade secrets and make sure nothing bad happens. You play Adam Jensen, Head of Security for a US biotech firm called Sarif Industries. So what’s it all about? Well that I can’t go into much detail about, it would definitely ruin the game! Here’s what we can tell you. The opening story is very detailed, and fills in who you are, and sets up the game. On a sunny Tuesday I copied the game to my Xbox 360 hard drive and hit go. I have been looking forward to playing Deus Ex: Human Revolution for a long time.
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