[Splines]

Deus Ex: Human Revolution's interior design is quite striking, although I'm completely uneducated in this area. There's an interesting analysis done by an architecture student here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD7519BFFBCE668B2

Interesting to watch. The music of DX:HR is also lovely.

[frik]

Having played all parts of the Deus Ex series: DX 1 is stellar, one of the top 10 PC/video games. Speaking about interior design, DX1 is outstanding for its time (Unreal 1 engine). One could use, move and destroy objects in the room. DX2 had a similar good interior design and a even more realisitic physics engine (fire could spread across the room, not seen again until Far Cry 2 many years later). The music of DX1 is great, every single piece. Though DX2 suffered from being developed for XBox1, a console which lacked memory and was quite slow in comparision to a PC at that time. So DX2 levels were very tiny (only 1-3 rooms per level) and a fraction of the level size of DX1 which spans up to 1 square mile. DX2 was also dumped down for consoles (1 ammo type for all weapons - seriously wtf!). DX 3 (aka Human Revolution) had beautiful cloth designs and interesting art design, but used an outdated game engine. DX3 had a very static game world, move or destroying interior object wasn't possible. The story was less complex and less grand than DX1&2, the levels were comparable almost small to DX2 and far smaller than DX1 that came out like 7 years before. DX3 had one of the most stupid interior archtectual designs, like accessable ventilation pipes had been added at a very late state in the development for more stealth gameplay. The ventilation pipes were placed at the illogical places and gone through many feets of concrete space just for the sake of offering stealth gameplay. People who like DX3 more thanDX1 often never played DX1 at release date and/or haven't completed both games. Sure today, all Deus Ex parts look very outdated from a graphical point of view. So I tend to say DX1 was superb, DX2 & DX3 development was misguided and the result just good or very good, but not one of the best games ever. The release date of DX4 (due Dec 2015) has just been pushed back another 8 months due to subpar quality from the publisher - weeks just before the Gold master. Nowadays the Dishonored and Watch_Dogs series seem to be the logic successor of Deus Ex. If only Warren Spector would come back and be the lead of a new Deus Ex like game.

[tormeh]

I tried to play DX1 once. I quit in the intro when the lead villains said "[...] and then we'll take over the world, muahahaha". Nothing can make up for that sort of thing. I'd honestly prefer watching grass grow. At least watching grass grow doesn't make me cringe.

DX1's reputation is pure nostalgia. Standards have risen since then and now DX1 is below par.

[frik]

You judge a video game based on a 2min intro video? Listen more carefully and don't judge something in 1-2 minutes.

Deus Ex 1 has still one of the best stories in a video game. It's a lot more complex and awesome you might think. And yes, the game has different endings and the player can decide if the visions of the intro becomes true. The while graphics aged though the gameplay is still great.