25 Minutes of Deus Ex: Human Revolution Gameplay

In a year that holds a near overwhelming number of high-quality releases, Deus Ex: Human Revolution stands to be one of the most anticipated and sought after titles of them all. Below you will find 2 videos, each over 12 minutes long, that showcase some early footage of the futuristic, cyberpunk version of Shanghai that plays a backdrop to Jean Jacques-Belletete's 2027 vision of the world.

Many of these scenes have been featured in recent trailers and may look familiar to you, but it should be noted that these videos showcase a very early build of the game. That being said, it is nonetheless satisfying to see the game being played outside the time constraints of a trailer.

Part 1 is featured below, and the more action-oriented part 2 is available via the story link.

[RedDead]

Gotta be honest, i'm not liking the auto cinimatic kills. That seems to bea stable in this gens action games. Killzone 3 also has it, Halo also except they're quicker in Halo, AvP 2010....I thought it's what Ruined Avp 2010.

I'd prefere the old way of doing it manually.

Edit---Almost all kills here were animated for christ sake... except till about 8 mins in the second vid.

[Mikeockizard]

God, I am glad I'm not the only one who thought that sucked. I was soo pumped for this game, until I started watching these videos. I don't know, I just like performing these actions myself. This makes it look like all the close quarters stuff is basically QTE's. Get close to enemies and press X at the right time to watch a scripted kill sequence. That is NOT gaming, it is watching.

I guess I will plan on using mostly ranged combat unless they decide to automate that with scripted kills as well....

[Derekvinyard13]

looks like a first person hitman game

[MARKUS_MAX1MUS]

At least in AVP 2010 you actually had to weaken your opponents from the front, I agree the stealth killing was noobish.

Ontopic this game just looks to non interactive, The enviroments look great and the seedy futuristic atmophere are done well but the basic gameplay is lacking.

I dont like the one button "movie mode!" while you watch the cool thing thats happening instead of doing it. Just look at splinter Cell conviction and you have a perfect example of that crap.

Instead of just doing a prescripted animation, you should be able to hold the guy up, press melee to knock him out, hold melee to break his neck, interrogate him, disarm him, take hostage. theres so much more you could do which would add alot more depth than a simple "movie moment" animation.

[OhMyGandhi]

funny how you brought up splinter cell because
I like context sensitive kills.
"holding" a button can do this action, while pressing it once and then pressing back on the stick and what now can trigger different actions.

I like it when it's more interactive as that, not only does it make you feel better because your solely responsible for kicking someone's ass, but it doesn't make you feel like a mere spectator of the script kicking ass.

from what I've seen in this clip, it looks decent. what threw me off though was the person controlling the game, moving left/right and up/down like the camera was a literal film camera and not the eyes of the main character.
that hurts the presentation, makes things feel stale.

hell, if I had the controller, I'd do a killzone/cloverfield like thing, running through hallways and quickly glancing around.

things that make the game more real and alive.
then again, I can't say much about the game because I never played any of them.

I tried Deus Ex: Invisible War on xbox1 and couldn't believe the choppy frame rate, it was a damned slideshow even when apparently nothing was going on. It was almost as if the game was running on Windows Vista.

[HolyOrangeCows]

I didn't mind the idea of QTE kills on occasion, but even for double take downs? I mean, he walks right up to them - to their FACES - and auto-kills them (which takes 5 seconds - a deadly amount of time in almost any stealthy game to kill an enemy before he creates alarm), still keeping his stealth.

See through walls, go invisible, auto kill multiple targets at once and keep your stealth status....it all makes the stealth option look far too easy.

Top that all off with very standard cover-shooting. Quite unexceptional.

I like the level design and atmosphere, but otherwise, I'm fairly unimpressed.

Part 2 - 7:50
Wow, that's one weak grenade!
Part 2 - 8:50
Your missiles are no match for Cardboard boxes!

[chainer3000]

I agree, I hope they were for demo purposes and aren't all over the game. The combat actually looks really fun so I don't know why they'd go and ruin it with scripted melee events that take away skill 100%.

Looks very Mass Effect meets Ghost In The Shell inspired, although Deus Ex as a series precedes both.

[Entropic]

I totally agree with you; I would love to see a game like this put control into the hands of the player, instead of the auto-kill. I'd be willing to sacrifice a cinematic view for full control in those situations. Again though, this is footage from an older build, so perhaps this will change in time for the full release.

[DelbertGrady]

Hopefully it was just for on-stage demo purposes.

Apart from that it looks amazing.

[Inside_out]

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When a game has been in development a long time, the industry passes them by. Graphics have been increased exponentially and after an amazing trailer for this game at E3, it kinda looks last gen, especially with the buggy eyes. I think they should delay this till 2012 and work on some post processing effects to clear up some of those things. The engine looks like a modified Unreal 2 type of deal.

[MARKUS_MAX1MUS]

yes because graphics are everything..

[Entropic]

Please note that this footage is from a very early build of the game. I personally think it still looks great, but in the latest videos and screens it is evident that the engine has progressed quite nicely over the past 6 months. In fact, I'm even considering buying a new PC just to take advantage of some of the DX11 and tessellation effects.

[shadowknight203]

thats really no excuse, if its from an earlier build then why wansnt the video put out publicly sooner, or why havent they at least used a more up to date build..PLEASE! when ppl say that its only an earlier build, its most likely is lies lies lies

[Kon]

I fapped to this video. Can't wait. It is looking so damn amazing

[Serinous]

looks amazing

[Xfanboy]

oh yes another one for pc - http://www.youtube.com/watc...
going from 7,000 to 60,000 polygons might make a difference!

[pepesuelo]

old

[Inzo]

This game looks damn good, as far as multiplats go I think this will do better than Crysis2, outside america anyway.

[MARKUS_MAX1MUS]

looks like a dissapointment of the original, it looks like its following the stereotypcial paths of gaming this gen, strip it of all its features instead of adding more and up the graphics.....hey why not add in a cheesey assasination animation which immeadiately throws you out of immersing yourself in the game.

I dont like games that are one button press and then it does something for you, they lack immersion and overall gameplay value.

[Mikeockizard]

Totally agree! Staying in character was part of what made the original,(and to a much lesser extent IW) the great games that they were. Now every time we get close to someone, we simply press x and watch as the camera pans out to show a scripted kill sequence. Talk about killing the immersion.

I really don't like that games this gen are becoming LESS interactive. I was really hoping for the opposite. GOW3 and all the other hack-n-slash games with all their QTE's, and now games/movies like Heavy Rain that are barely even games at all. I realize it is much easier on the developers because they simply have to model one or two possible outcomes rather than making the game truly dynamic, but it is still disappointing. Add in the increased focus on graphics, and I think by the next generation of consoles we will all be playing photo-realistic versions of Dragons Lair....

[Squadron40Dive]

I hope this game rocks my socks

[ian72]

It looks like they have kept the same type of gameplay from the original Deus Ex, with just a few differences. They have even got someone called Tong in the game, probably a relation to Tracer Tong in the original. I loved Dues Ex and played it through around 4 times, my all time favourite game. This is definately going to be mine when it releases, cant wait.

[tudors]

Deus Ex are great games, they have not failed to be brilliant in the past so I don't expect they will now.

[Sidewinder-]

Getting tired of this Demo.

[nilamo]

the audio is out of sync for me.. otherwise it looks awesome. I love me some good sci fi, so I don't really care how it's nothing like the original.

[prettyboy1]

in all honesty the game looks good,but gameplay seems kinda boring!

[KozmoOchez]

fake hardcore gamers always find something stupid to complain about...games have had scripted stealth kills for a long time now and I would've appreciated them in Deus Ex 1 instead of stealthing behind an enemy, swiping them with a knife or whatever melee item I had on me, and then having them turn around and kill me.

[LMS]

graphics look AWFUL, please say this is the console version, it must be, jaggies everywhere, horrible screeen tearing and missing/popping texture,

PC Version for me please.

Why even show the console version at a demo, I like it better when they lied and pretended the pc version was a console version using a 360 controller or something...

[Kalipekona]

This is the PS3 version, that is probably why it has all the screen tearing and stuff.

[NeloAnjelo]

The game looks awesome. I love the colours and textures.
For some reason I think it would work better in a third person view. Anyone else feel this way?
Still definitely picking this up.