Deus Ex Preview Leaked

[vlad321]

So I heard there was a leak of a preview build for the news DE out in the wild. So I put on my detective hat and hunted that thing down. My surprise is palpable. It's actually a bit unfinished, obviously, with the graphics and there are a few bugs here and there, but it had around 9-15 hours of gameplay in it. It was also absolutely fucking amazing. The health regen isn't even so bad because you get killed in 3-4 shots anyhow. Cover is optional, the 360-degree-kill-everything is stupid expensive to actually use, and I will tell you that I found a ridiculous amount of unfound game when I went through it a second time. The stealth system works, and unlike what unskilled scrubs and chobs will tell you on the official forums, sodoes the shooting route and you even have a ton of ammo to spare (consolse scrubs, look elsewhere for your shooting needs because you will run out of ammo quick if you aren't careful). This is honest to god the closest thing I have played to DE1, and even in an unfinished, buggy (it has less bugs than some full released games) state it is probably the best gaming I've had in many years (that includes Portal 2 solely because Portal 2 was so damn short). Hacking is actually a game, and it is interesting and the story has the potential of being good.

Now the most glaring problems came form the AI. It was good and all, it'd flank and everything, sometimes, however the moment you disappeared and they had to look for you, they became the dumbest fucking idiots in a game imaginable. Hopefully that is fixed up by the time of release 2 months from now. The other problem I have are the augmentations, which are all apparent from the get-go and they feel kind of simpler than they did back in DE1.

Overall this is simply awesome. If you want more details there are plenty of discussoins in the official forums, and around the last 20+ pages of The Hive thread they have are solely about this. This is the first game I have actually pre-ordered since sometime in '07.

P.S. Apparently you can't just run up to a proximity mine and disar mit this time around.

P.P.S. Yes the leak is solely on the PC, but since it is locked on lowest settings I am running it with half a core, and 10% of my video card, so worse PCs might be able to handle it as well. I am not even exaggerating.