Truthfully the boss fights and end(s) of Deus Ex: Human Revolution sucked. The three boss fights weren't simply difficult (which they were), annoying (which they were) the main problem was - and I've read this in other eviews - the boss fights come out of left field and consist of the tactic: hoard ammo and guns use them all in a boss fight because otherwise you're fucked. If you've put your efforts into creating a stealthy hacker and not dermal armor plating and shooting skills then a) you're gonna get dead right quick and b) the boss fights do not allow for any other course of action besides run and gun. In one fight I saw a series of crates hanging from the ceiling and after getting killed for the umpteenth time tried to find a way to drop them on the boss. Nope, sorry. Fuck you. Well maybe I could hack some sentry guns...yeah fuck you. Could I...sorry fuck no. Each of the fights made me dread the next one, not because it was hard but because I simply didn't have the option of playing the fight out in a different way. In the final fight I ended up backtracking through the entire level and scavenging every round of ammo and guns I could find and I still got shredded time and time and time again. Finally I had to drop the difficulty down to Tea Cup ride and that still was a bitch.
The denouement is less frustrating but kind of let down on its own, sort of like Fallout 3 and Fallout: Vegas. Despite my loathing of the boss fights Deus Ex: HR had a solid, mildly convoluted cyberpunk, story with dynamic character interaction. Communicating with side characters was a high point of the game for me and one particular conversation will stick with me more quite sometime - let's just say it didn't go well. The ending just goes yup and the end. Shrug. I wasn't looking for Return of the King but a little more would have been nice.
All in all I enjoyed the game. It was a solid forty hours of adventuring though I doubt I'll be replaying it or bothering with the DLC anytime soon.
The denouement is less frustrating but kind of let down on its own, sort of like Fallout 3 and Fallout: Vegas. Despite my loathing of the boss fights Deus Ex: HR had a solid, mildly convoluted cyberpunk, story with dynamic character interaction. Communicating with side characters was a high point of the game for me and one particular conversation will stick with me more quite sometime - let's just say it didn't go well. The ending just goes yup and the end. Shrug. I wasn't looking for Return of the King but a little more would have been nice.
All in all I enjoyed the game. It was a solid forty hours of adventuring though I doubt I'll be replaying it or bothering with the DLC anytime soon.
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