Deus Ex: The Fall Reviews

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too short

I'm sure this is a fine game for mobile platforms.

This game is a joke. A pretty bad joke.

Permanently unfinished. It's literally one chapter. Don't buy this game, and don't worry about not having the story, this is as unconnected from the other Deus Ex games as any. You'll understand Human Revolution just fine without playing The Fall. It's a shame too, it's fun... not fun enough to be worth it, though. Only buy as part of a bundle. In fact, only when the game is on sale, AND part of a bundle.

It's Deus Ex, with horrible controller support, awkward control dynamic (tho props for keeping it mostly the same as Human Revolution), and no real inventory system, buy what you need when you need. It's not as finished, but still playable if you're wanting another sneak adventure...

A bit of a Deus Ex: Human Revolution appetizer. Too bad the second part will never come out.

The reviews lied to me. This is a solid bite-sized entry in the series. Based on its reception, you'd think this game was a complete disaster, and yet it plays like Human Revolution, just with less verticality (no jump button) and no physics. So you can't throw environmental objects to create a distraction, and you can't move unconscious/dead bodies; they just vaporize after a few seconds instead. This makes for a simpler game, but simple doesn't automatically mean boring or bad. The game just has more of an arcade feel to it, without losing the aspects that make it immersive. Since there's no easy way to distract guards, you're encouraged to grab the invisibility augmentation early on if you want to remain undetected while trespassing. The game actually forces you to try it out as your first augmentation during the prologue/tutorial, so they knew it was important. But this was always the strongest way to play Human Revolution in stealth, so... if you were already using that tactic in HR, the gameplay will feel virtually identical. I mean, if this was fine in HR, why wouldn't it be fine here? More of a good thing is not a bad thing. So, the gameplay is more limited, but that doesn't make it bad. What about the graphics? Well, it feels like playing a PSP game in high resolution. I played the game in 4K and it looked very nice. The graphics are low-poly, but they are charming. Yes, charming. I mean come on. The original Deus Ex came out in 2000, and any true Deus Ex enthusiast will tell you that those crusty graphics are iconic as hell. In fact, simpler graphics make a game like this easier to read, so you don't have to constantly activate smart vision just to process what you can interact with at a glance. And this is not me throwing shade at Mankind Divided, I'm just saying both styles have pros and cons, and I would have loved seeing more of both. Not to mention, a game with these graphics would take far less money and time to make. If we got a sequel to Mankind Divided with these graphics I would happily take it over no sequel at all. The game's biggest downfall is that the story is unfinished, but is that really enough to say that the entire game is bad? I don't think so. After all, Mankind Divided had the same problem. It's sad that the developers were not given the opportunity to continue these stories, because the world of Deus Ex is very engaging, immersive and dense in atmosphere. For me, everything comes together nicely because of the formula itself. So far, none of the Deus Ex games have strayed from that formula since the very first one, so even the "worst" ones have managed to be good to me. Finishing a game in one sitting is a very satisfying feeling, so in that sense, I thought the pacing here was great. It is a short game, but that's fine as long as it's priced accordingly, which it is. You can get all Deus Ex games for peanuts these days. So if you enjoy the world of Deus Ex and just want to spend an extra 5 hours in it for a dollar or two, this is an easy recommendation. Think of it as the MGS: Peace Walker of Deus Ex, and you should have a pretty good time. Hopefully Deus Ex will return someday.

This game isn't good, but it sort of works, and it is decent fun. There are two major things to get out of the way first. One is that this is a port of a mobile game from 2013 and it really shows. The store page screenshots look okay but I managed to get a few during my time playing that looked so bad I just had to laugh. 2002 called, they want their graphics back. The second thing to mention is that was the first episode of a planned multi episode game that was cancelled because it sucks and not many people cared in the first place. So don't get invested in the story which, while it could've been better, wasn't honestly that bad. If the game had been completed as planned I'd have played through it all even though what we have here is buggy and subpar, sometimes to the point of being so bad its good. So with that out of the way, what kind of game is this? How does it compare to the other games in the Deus Ex franchise? Well I've only played this, Human Revolution and Mankind Divided, so compared to those this is the inbred cousin from the side of the family your parents urge you to stay away from. The gameplay of Human Revolution has been watered down and simplified, and it seems like this was made on a micro budget with as many reused assets as possible. It might've been okay at the time, keeping in mind it was a mobile game and phones these days are much more suited to gaming, but it just isn't that good of an experience on PC over a decade since it came out. So why recommend it? If you got this in a bundle, then keeping in mind typical sale prices you would pay less than a dollar to be mildly entertained and amused for anywhere from three to about ten hours, which is roughly what it took me to get a pretty easy platinum. My time is inflated a little since I left it running while I did something else at one point. I would never suggest anyone intentionally buy this game at full price, or maybe even at all, but if you find yourself owning a copy then why not give it a try.