Raghar
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Because I was accused of making shit up in my earlier post about manufactured excitement…
I have been reliably informed that not a single gaming journalist got excited about Deus Ex: Invisible War. Everybody knew from day one that it was going to suck, and nobody generated any false hype. What sort of fool am I, lying about something like that?
But what’s this? Santa Claus delivering a late package? My heavens, it’s full of Truth Bombs!
From IGN’s IGN’s hands-on Invisible War preview:
We’re lucky. We have a near final build of Deus Ex: Invisible War that contains the entire game minus some tweaking and bug hunting. We’ve been playing it and are more than happy to tell you about our adventures in Deusexland because they have been good.
From GameSpot’s “updated preview” of Invisible War:
Based on what we’ve played, Deus Ex: Invisible War is an impressive follow-up that appears to be fulfilling the promise of the first game. Fans of the series or anyone looking for a change of pace will want to watch for this one.
CVG/PC Zone had a few hype-generating words to say in their preview:
With ground-breaking adaptive AI, cool futuristic weaponry, multi-branching storylines, unscripted challenge-solving and four different endings, Invisible War is a sci-fi action RPG that everyone should be gasping to play.
Let’s compare, now, with previews of Deus Ex: Invisible War Human Revolution, due to come out later this year.
IGN seemed to like what they saw at their E3 hands-off preview:
I didn’t actually get any hands-on time so I can’t say how the game actually feels to play, but what I saw looked great.
Yes, it looks great! Who needs to bother with any of that silly stuff like actually playing the game when it merely looking great is all a game needs to achieve greatness.
Of course nobody can know for sure without some hands-on time, but for now, even if you’ve never played a Deus Ex game before, this is definitely one to keep an eye on.
Similar language to GameSpot’s preview of Invisible War, there - we’ll want to watch this one with a keen eye. Or something.
Maybe EuroGamer have something better to say about Human Revolution:
While you’re there you might even be able to dabble in some extreme violence and air ducts, and there’s certainly a datapad with a code on in the toilets. The presence of Australian NPCs and mirrors is yet to be confirmed. The more things change, the more they seem to stay gloriously the same.
And that - somewhat early on in what will be a glowing preview of Deus Ex: Human Revolution, by the way - is the message I want to convey. This is, recognisably and joyfully, a true Deus Ex game - we can stop worrying and start tentative negotiation with the hype train.
Ducts, codes, toilets… it’s everything we could have hoped for and more.
Less than halfway into the first of a four-page preview and the writer can’t wait to fill his underwear with baby batter.
Let’s see what Dale “Destructoid is the McDonalds of game journalism” North thinks:
Last week I was invited to Eidos’ Montreal HQ to get a better look at Deus Ex: Human Revolution. If you haven’t seen much of it yet, know that this game is easy to appreciate.
Blimey, first two sentences. A new record.
My feeling is that Deus Ex: Human Revolution has to be one of the most thought-out, overly detailed games ever made. The end result is a game that’s very impressive, from every angle. It seems like they haven’t missed a thing.
Oh, good. Once I play Human Revolution I can hang up my joypad and retire from gaming.
There is every possibility that Deus Ex: Human Revolution will be a remarkable game, a an absolute joy, a tour de force. All I’m saying is that people were saying these exact same things about Invisible War, a game which most people will concede is a shitfest.
So there we are. Research. You’re welcome.
It worked on this side.