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Deus Ex: Human Revolution gameplay trailer shows multiple approaches
by Alice O'Connor, Mar 21, 2011 1:20pm PDTA teasing peek at Deus Ex: Human Revolution's opportunities for different approaches are shown off in an eight-minute trailer with commentary from narrative game designer Mary DeMarle. Three different ways to infiltrate a warehouse in one single, very small area of the first mission are demonstrated.
DeMarle explains that the franchise is built upon "four main gameplay pillars: combat, stealth, hacking and social," the first two of which are the focus of this trailer.
Guards are knocked unconscious, boxes are crouched behind, bullets are fired, bodies are dragged, a crate is moved, vents are crawled through, a breaker box is shut down, and snack bars are plundered. It all looks delightfully like a modern version of the Deus Ex we all know and love.
Deus Ex: Human Revolution is scheduled for release on PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on August 23. For more on the game, check out our two-part single-player hands-on preview and interview with Mary DeMarle.
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I guess my major concern re: the demo is that in the original Deus Ex, the levels were massive. You could play through some of them 2 or 3 times, and still find new things if you hadn't searched with an eye for completeness. To a certain extent, I agree with the Reddit poster who said that the level design of the demo appears to be very contrived. That's ... worrisome. I want to search for an hour, not 5 minutes (or 30 seconds). Of course, as someone else said, they are trying to get things across in an 8 minute video clip.
Still, I'm curious about later levels ... hopefully this was just a teaser, and not representative of the rest of the level design in the game.
Uh, really don't like the switching between 3rd person and 1st person very much, but that's just a personal pref...
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