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• gamedeal user

  Jan 22, 2022

  Regardless of the final product on PC, I’m happy Deus Ex: The Fall found it’s way onto Steam in the first place; there are so many tie-in games released in the late 2000s/early 2010s from series such as Mass Effect and Dead Space that are just lost to time, as support for mobile operating systems is incredibly short. The Fall is a side-story taking place during Human Revolution, and also serves as a sequel to the novel Icarus Effect, which I recently finished reading. I had no idea that this game featured the same characters, and as a result, I was kind of excited, as I wanted to see some kind of conclusion to the story of Anna Kelso and Ben Saxon. But despite going into this game with extremely low expectations, the first hour left a really sour taste in my mouth. The opening two levels reenact two sections from the book; albeit with less action and hilariously awful voice acting and dialogue from enemies. While the Icarus Effect novel is pretty standard fare as far as video game tie-in novels go, there was enough to setup some kind of excitement during these chapters, which the game fails to do. On top of that, it becomes quickly apparent that this port was developed with a minimum amount of effort. The UI is hardly changed from the mobile version, buttons are unresponsive, there is only one save slot, and even though microtransactions are disabled, the equipment/weapons shop is a depressing reminder of the bullshit design found in mobile gaming. But you know what? Damn if the game doesn’t open up after you get past the dreadful prologue missions. Sure, graphically it’s not the prettiest thing, but the developers did a fantastic job of scaling a game like Deus Ex: Human Revolution into a mobile format, (especially impressive given how much weaker mobile devices were in 2013). After an hour or so of running around Panama City, I forgot I was playing what was once a mobile game. There are many hidden places to explore, alternate paths to take, codex entries to read, and combat encounters that can be approached with proper stealth or with a myriad of weapons. As I was playing, I realized I slowly got sucked into the game as I did with Human Revolution. I tried hacking everything I could, interacted with NPCs and reloaded some of my saves to see different outcomes of some sidequests. The main story itself is pretty good, taking place during a global shortage of Neuropozyne; the drug that all augmented people need to take in order to function. A competing drug enters the market and trouble ensues. The worst part is that the game ends shortly after an unexpected twist (which is a pretty good one too, especially for players who read the Icarus Effect novel). There was more content planned (as was discovered in the game files) but no sequel has ever come to fruition. It’s sad, and another example of the poor mismanagement the franchise has had since it’s reintroduction. As long as you keep in mind that this was a mobile game released in 2013, and and not a full Deus Ex experience, it’s not bad at all. Of course, I would have preferred if this was a proper standalone experience, developed for PC and consoles, but it is what it is. And despite my negative feelings towards the voice acting (and horrid character model), I wish that Anna had a bigger role to play; as one of the main characters in Icarus Effect, it sucks to see her take a backseat during the game. Switching between her and Saxon would have been cool and potentially offered the chance to showcase different abilities. Taking into account the constraints of its initial target platform, as well as the downsides of this PC release, it’s a 5.6/10 for me. I do recommend it if you’re a Deus Ex fan and you want more content; just grab it on a deep discount.
• gamedeal user

  Oct 9, 2014

  Very lousy port from the mobile version. DON'T BUY IT Edit: For the people who are interested what kind of bugs or silly ideas are in the game, here are a few examples: -You can not JUMP. Remember the original Deus Ex or Deus Ex: Human Revolution, which offered you a lot of pathways and a real open-world feeling? Well guess what, they decided to be assholes and changed it to a silly "Jump over object" animation, and even that is limited to some objects. -You have access to a credit-shop at ANYTIME in the game, not matter what happens. Need some ammo? Sure, you can buy it straight away. Remember the times in Deus Ex when you needed to find medkits to heal your 25/250 HP Torso? Don't worry! Now you simply can buy "Painkillers" at anytime, which obviously makes the entire game way too easy. -AI in the game is incredibly inpredictable. Sometimes when you are 1 meter in front of their face they don't see you, yet when you're behind a solid object they manage to see you. And no, they don't have "radars". There are alot more of bugs or silly mistakes, but i'm too lazy to name them all. TL;DR: It's a shitty port-over from the original IOS version. Save your 10 euros/dollars and buy the original Deus Ex or Deus Ex: Human Revolution. If you own both games, buy Dishonored, which is basically Deus Ex, but with swords and magic.
• gamedeal user

  Oct 30, 2014

  IF you LOVED Deus Ex: Human Revolution, you will be very offended by this prequel to it!!!... I found out after buying it that it was intended to play ON-THE-GO for your tablet, then they brought it over to PC to rip you off money and time. Seriously, not worth your time, unless it's a clearance price of .99 cents... I do not recommend this game, although I did play it all the way through. The game is just --- OKAY! And misses all of the great flavor of the game prior (Deus Ex: HR).
• gamedeal user

  Feb 21, 2015

  Alright, bear with me now, because I'm about to fucking recommend Deus Ex: The Fall. Buckle up. Now, first things first. This game is $9.99. Do not pay $9.99. If it's 75% or more off, I totally recommend purchasing, and I'm going to really struggle to articulate exactly how I feel about this game, but here we go. This is a port of a mobile game. It was not developed for PC in mind. That is a shame, and I really do wish they would've considered that route instead, but this is the route Eidos took, so we just have to keep that in mind. It's graphics are shoddy, physics are missing, models look bland, levels are downscaled, and certain gameplay mechanics are missing entirely. However... I had fun. I honestly did. The basic gameplay of stealthily manuevering throughout the shadows and picking off troops one by one is still there, and is still as fun as it was in Human Revolution. The level design is still well done, even if it is small, and features multiple paths to reach your objectives, just as Human Revolution did. The voice acting is very well done, with the exception of the tutorial lady, who should really be put on suicide watch. The story is incredibly well done, with the fantastic writing of Human Revolution manifesting itself in The Fall through dialogue, pocket secretaries, and emails. There are some sidequests that present some variety in options. There are interesting characters. Of course, things have also been simplified, and probably not to its advantage. Multiple saves don't exist, which wasn't really a problem for me, but I can see that unnerving certain people. The inventory system allows infinite of anything, and items are actually purchased through a tab rather than an individual. It's convenient, but rather odd and unusual. So to conclude, yes, I do actually recommend Deus Ex: The Fall. There is love in this game that is evident, and I hate to see their effort wasted under a plethora of hatred and backlash. If you loved Deus Ex and Deius Ex: Human Revolution just as much as I did, you'll enjoy this adventure as well. Hell, I did everything you could possibly do in the game and managed to clock in at 8 hours, which isn't too shabby.
• gamedeal user

  Jun 7, 2015

  Deus Ex: The Fall; let me first point out that I went into The Fall expecting it to be the absolutely worst game I have played, this was due to the media completely disregarding it straight away. I also want to point out that this is the first Deus Ex game I have played. So lets get into it; The gameplay in The Fall is your pretty standard first person shooter/stealthy type game. Sadly though they are not done brilliantly. The gun play is bad to say the least, you can shoot a guy in the head at point blank range with a shot gun five or six times and he still won't die, you can also be crouching right in front of an enemy and he won't notice you, like literally, you can be under his nose and he won't bat an eye lid. The graphics are OK, that's all. It is in no way a pretty looking game, it looks as if it is straight off the PlayStation 1 (no disrespect to the games on that platform, it just looks very dated). It tries to make it self look better than it is by using plenty of lens flare though. The voice acting is really bad, the main character, Ben Saxton, is British, and boy do they put that point across, it is the most generic British accent you will ever hear and at points made me cringe; games that have been out for ten years or so have better voice acting in than The Fall... Level design is a very narrow sighted open world type setting, you can roam around the city, exploring, having meaningless conversations with civilians, and finding items. You will also run into a couple of side quests, five or six to be exact. Granted that's nothing really to brag about when you compare it to other games which have side quests, but this is certainly not a completely linear game and leaves room for the player to choose what to do and when. With the gameplay elements not being exactly up to scratch, this can fluctuate the difficulty levels at time. I didn't feel as if it was a good enough stealth system for me to use the stealth approach, so I just went with the all guns-blazing tactic. I hardly ran into any difficult parts throughout my play-through. The most difficult aspect I encountered was the hacking system on doors and computers. You can either find out the password/pass-code by exploring the world for clues, or hack the system. The hacking system at times was infuriating and I had to resort to looking up codes on the wiki, or looking up the location of the clue. I finished Deus Ex: The Fall in just about four and a half hours, this was including doing the majority of the side quests and doing a fair amount of exploring for extra items and codes. If you want a Pound (£) to hour ratio, it's not bad on that front, the game does end on a cliff-hanger and I would of liked to have seen just a little bit more of what happens, looking at the chronology of Dues Ex, this is one of the first games in the story, and Human Revolution will reveal all I suppose. There is a mire of technical issues with this game too; firstly the controls, you are not able to rebind any of the keys - this to me is an absolute must in ANY PC game. If I have a whole keyboard in front of me, let me use it damn it! Also, when navigating through the menus, your mouse clicks are sometimes not registered until you click four or five times, this made purchasing extra painkillers (the game's version of a health pack) and ammo become something of a chore. This problem also makes it into the actual game play too, as you can be standing behind an enemy, hit your stealthy take down key, but have to press it a number of times before the game recognizes it. These little things made me annoyed, and they could of been fixed very easily if it was QA'ed properly. The final verdict, do I recommend Deus Ex: The Fall? This is when I wish Steam would have a "maybe" option available; because I had to admit, I did have some fun while playing, I finished the game after all so it wasn't so bad I couldn't bring my self from seeing the ending. But it is a bad game, it doesn't do much right, the poor voice acting, the buggy interface and broken game play elements would of grown tiresome if the game's length was any longer than it already is. So as I have to give a straight yes or no answer, I will sadly have to go with a "Do Not Recommend" for Dues Ex: The Fall. Fans of the Deus Ex series will probably want to play it purely for the lore and story aspect, but nothing more. If you found this review helpful, please consider giving it a thumbs up. You can also find more reviews over at http://www.completingthebackloggroup.com/ Please also check out Completing the Backlog's Curator page [url=http://steamcommunity.com/groups/completingthebacklog#curation]here[/url] - follow for regular updates on reviews for other games! http://store.steampowered.com/app/258180/
• gamedeal user

  Oct 6, 2015

  [h1]A P.O.S. embarrassment to an otherwise fantastic series[/h1] Boy oh boy, am I glad that Steam allows players to "not recommend" games, because this atrocity does not deserve the Deus Ex moniker. It doesn't even deserve to be a PC or home-console game. To quote Adam Jensen, "I never asked for this". On the surface, the game looks promising. You play as Ben Saxon, a mercenary once affiliated with the Tyrants (the guys who attack Sarif Industries in Human Revolution), who defected from the Tyrants and is now pursuing his own investigation into the global conspiracy. Ben Saxon is basically a reskinned Adam Jensen - the HUD and augmentations from Human Revolution are all intact. Sounds like it could be fun, right? Well, maybe, if the game were developed as proper Human Revolution DLC using that game's engine. Except it's not. It's a port of a mobile game. You think console ports are bad? I'd take a console port over a mobile port any day of the week. The technical flaws due to "mobile-itis" are apparent from the very beginning. The controls are god awful, and at the time of release, could not be remapped. Movement feels stiff and it's easy to tell that the mouse is just simulating a finger drawing across a touch screen. Worse still, some compromises that were made for touch screens also crept into the PC port. For example, on the mobile version, to fire your weapon you need to hold down a button, which brings up the weapon sight. You aim the weapon and release the button to fire. On the PC, you hold down the left mouse, aim, and release the left mouse to fire. Yeah, what the F-word?! I don't know if this was patched as of 2015, but it sure wasn't working too well last year when I played this game. The graphics may have won praise when viewed on a small phone or tablet screen. On a PC monitor, they're inexcusably bad. The models are low res, animations are choppy, and corpses just disappear into thin air due to game engine constraints. Even the Xbox 360 can do better than this, and that's a 10 year old console. Now all this could be forgiven if the gameplay were even half as amazing as Deus EX HR or the Missing Link DLC. Well, obviously it's not! Enemy AI is beyond retarded. Human Revolution's AI was often the butt of jokes, but those guys are Einsteins compared to the stooges you face in The Fall. I couldn't believe it when I was able to walk up to enemies HEAD ON and do stealth takedowns without raising alarms. They must be blind, deaf, and dead. It's almost like the devs turned on cheat codes for everyone. Part of the fun of Human Revolution was carefully rationing resources when upgrading augmentations and weapons. It was also necessary to visit specific locations to get upgrades, and this encouraged exploration (which opened side quests). In The Fall, you can simply buy augs and weapon upgrades and even ammo on-the-fly, and somehow it magically appears in your inventory. Finding money is also stupidly easy. That kills incentive for exploration, and it's far too easy to become The Terminator in a short time, which removes any challenge in the game (not helped by the dumb-as-dirt AI). To add insult to injury, the game's SHORT. I finished it in five hours. It ends with a message telling me to wait for the next episode, just like a typical mobile game. So far, there has been no mention of that second episode. This game should be ignored by everyone. Don't even pirate it. Send a message to Square Enix that we will not tolerate this sort of blasphemy. At least Mankind Divided looks like it'll be a proper game...
• gamedeal user

  Jun 5, 2017

  It runs with max setting on my 200€ worth laptop xD But i cannot reccomend a mobile porting game, if you love deus ex, just buy the book instead (Deus Ex: Icarus Effect)
• gamedeal user

  Jun 26, 2017

  A mobile game that should have stayed that way. Or at the very least been remade from the ground up for PC. Utter feces.
• gamedeal user

  Jun 27, 2017

  Not a quality follow-up to a top-tier game like Deus Ex. It adds a few nice things I would have liked to have had while playing Adam Jensen, like buying stuff anywhere and having two rechargeable power cells. But the negatives dramatically outweigh the positives. One asks, why did they try and fix these things that were not broken? The engine is different despite being perfectly serviceable, and they implemented a truly hideous save system. Add that to goofy anime-esque characterization and simplistic story-telling and this is definitely a sale-only purchase even if you ar a big fan of the series. Avoid altogether otherwise. 2/5 stars
• gamedeal user

  Aug 14, 2017

  After completing a masterpiece Human Revolution and writing review on it, it seemed that there was only Mankind Divided left on the horizon and that’s all, the series is complete! But no! There was one more game that is rarely talked about (like with Invisible War) – Deus Ex: The Fall. Many told me that this is crap, but it is the direct sequel to the Deus Ex: Icarus Effect book, which I liked. So, like with Invisible War, I decided to check myself, what this game is, and… things turned to be no so simple… Perception of the game greatly is affected by the platform you are playing it on: mobile or PC. Mobile perception: Not bad graphics Interesting gameplay Replayability Decent length of 5 hours Good open world and locations design Convenient interface and controls Nice soundtrack PC perception: Flawed graphics from 2005 Mediocre gameplay Bad replayability Short length of 5 hours Small and dull locations Completely unconvenient interface and controls Nice soundtrack The main game’s problem is bad PC port. And the problem is not even graphics, there are lots of great games with poor graphics (though they still could add high-resolution textures for PC version). The main problem is the gameplay itself. Locations redesign, yeah, barely anyone would do this but could you connect at least half of them together not to encounter loading screen every 3 minutes? (thanks, that the game does not relaunch at least). Plus controls and interface are unconvenient for PC, was it so hard to change them for mouse-keyboard? Interface icons are too big, long response, moreover, sometimes it doesn’t even happen and you have to click one more time. Only one save slot is available: I know that this is made for saving mobile memory, but, damn it, I am sure that even there you could implement at least 5 slots, and up to 20 on PC all the more. Game’s shop is placed right in your inventory and items can be bought even during missions. The inventory itself is bottomless and we can carry all the weapons and items at the same time. It’s convenient on mobile but feels like total idiocy on PC. Could you just place one vendor and make a normal inventory? Plus, bodies automatically disappear no matter by which way the enemy was neutralized. Yeah, on mobiles it’s used for saving RAM, but on PC it just looks sick. Could you implement a simple body carrying system? The game also does not have jump. No that it is needed here, but the fact itself… All in all, on PC we get quite a dubious product that is painful to play. Nevertheless, we have mobiles where we can play and enjoy it (and I think the fans will do this), however, there is one big BUT(t) that in the bud erases the point of spending your time on Deus Ex: The Fall… I think you’ve already noticed that I’ve told no word about the plot. No, it is not bad here, it is… in fact there is no plot. I’ll clarify: in reality it is not a completed Deus Ex: The Fall, it is just a first episode of this game. You only start to dive into the game, meet the known characters, start to unravel the story, ready to leave first location to find the truth and… the game ends with the inscription: “To be continued…” So, there is just no point in playing it. Deus Ex: The Fall is just an unfinished project that’s unlikely to be ever continued. And one more time I face the problem that Steam implies you to choose negative or positive review. The game even in its current state is not really that bad and depends on your platform. You can claim that the story is abandoned but on the same old mobiles it can be played just for gameplay, cause such projects are rarity for them. But because I am writing review for a PC version… I am gonna choose negative review. It doesn’t worth playing on PC. If by some miracle the game will be updated and story continued I might rethink all of this. But for now, this game is worth neither time nor money, at least on PC.