By Alec Meer on June 1st, 2011 at 10:06 am.
There’s a new trailer for Deus Ex: Human Revolution out – hardly a rare occurrence in and of itself, but this one is especially notable in that seems to have crammed in a few quiet nods to DX1. Until now, DXHR has stood relatively apart from its great forefather, but now all of sudden we hear mention of FEMA and… wait, who’s that sinister-looking chap at 1:24 and 2:09?
The character isn’t named and appears only in the briefest of unacknowledged flashes, but that circuitry on his forehead, that cruel glint in his eye – could it be DX1′s mega-bad, old man Bob Page? (Oh, I will forever love that the key villain in one of the most revered video games of all time is called ‘Bob’). See what you think:
And here’s the rest of the trailer, which is the usual line in DXHR talk of apocalypse, destiny and conspiracy and pounding music forever building to a crescendo which doesn’t come. Only two months to go until our post-millennial-game tension is resolved…
(Thanks, A B).
There’s also a preview build out.
:/
report
Yeah i saw that, but the leaker is going to be in a lot of trouble, Steam CEG protected binaries have the user information encoded into it as far as i’ve understood, he even left a crashdump which can usually contain information like what user was running the game and so on.
Looks like Eidos Montreal is playing it cool, and given the way people are reacting to the game, they have absolutely nothing to be ashamed of, it appears to be a great game, and they’re even allowing some discussion of the leak on their official forums.
The only way they could play it any cooler than that would be to release it as a demo on Steam :P
report
I can’t even begin to inform you fellow ladies and gentlemen how fucking brilliant this game is. I only made a cursory playthrough as to not spoil anything but let’s just say Deus Ex is no longer my favourite game.
report
A 12 hour demo would be quite interesting.
report
Not to put too fine a point on it, but being that guy who’s pirating the game two months before release isn’t something you generally express with gleeful pride.
report
@Tyrone: “I only made a cursory playthrough as to not spoil anything ”
lolwut
report
I’ve heard the leaked build is the one sent out to journos (about 10 hours long, bit buggy), which would make it the same one Quintin raved about a while back. I’m rather tempted. My preorder is concrete anyway, so this is more like stealing a demo. You can’t steal a demo, right?
report
You can’t download a car atleast.
report
I’m fine with people having different opinions on the morality of this, but I think it’s pretty obviously not equivalent to piracy. (For all I know it might be in a legal sense, but if so then that’s all.) It’s an illicit extended demo, which is the purpose a lot of people claim as justification for their piracy; but this time there’s no chance of playing through the whole thing and convincing yourself/claiming to others that it “wasn’t good enough to justify a purchase” — if you like it enough to finish the game, you’ve got no option but to buy it. (Or to actually pirate it of course, but that’s a different matter.)
report
@Thomas
YOU WOULDN’T DOWNLOAD A CAR
report
“The only way they could play it any cooler than that would be to release it as a demo on Steam :P”
I know it’s not going to happen, but I wonder if that could actually pay off for them. It’d be a big risk, but if the preview build is as awesome as we’ve been told so far, maybe the burst of publicity (and there would presumably be a lot, given that it’d be a combination of OMG LEAK + publisher responds in risky, unusual and customer friendly way + longest and most comprehensive demo ever, at least for any recent big-budget FPS) would net them enough extra sales to compensate for those who would have bought but changed their minds. You’d think there wouldn’t be too many of the latter who weren’t at risk of doing the same thing after trying a regular demo, assuming they’re planning to release one of those.
report
@subedii & Rii
I’ve pre-ordered the augmented edition months ago, I simply couldn’t resist trying this out, I’ve played nothing that hasn’t been revealed in previews, more to satisfy my impatience and assumptions about the quality of the game. I stopped once I got to the Detroit hub, it was too wonderful to play non-contiguously to the rest of the game. Of course now I’m unfortunately more impatient than ever.
report
“You wouldn’t… shoot a policeman! And then steal his helmet! And then go to the toilet in it! And then give the helmet to his widow! And then steal it again!”
report
Yes, I played it too. A brilliant game, and almost as important, a really good PC port. The mouse is a bit iffy, but it’s bearable. The graphics are a bit outdated, but this has greyed out options in the config window and in-game, it’s not final. The rest is great. Pausable cutscenes, an option to choose toggle or hold cover, turn the yellow things off, menus that work with the mouse. I think it’s a GOTY candidate.
And a disclaimer:I pre-ordered the Augmented Edition and won’t cancel it.
report
In Russia, a car download you.
report
He is Bob, eager for fun. He wears a smile. Everybody run.
report
My imagination flashed to the very same Bob upon reading the headline. Damn you, David Lynch, for scarring me for life and tainting that name forever for me.
report
he comes out from behind the chest of drawers
report
OLD MEN.
report
OLD MEN ARE THE FUTURE
report
U… UNATCO?
report
Savage.
report
UNATCO?
report
OH YES.
report
No. Savage.
report
Quit screwing around.
report
Stick with the prod. Prod with the prod.
report
Welcome to the Coalition JC, might as well start using. coke.
report
That’s Terror
report
Don’t believe me?
IT’S ALL IN THE NUMBERS
report
Desperate.
Your turn.
report
I have opened the mayor.
report
When the power drops, go in, and go in, and go in, and go in like the U.S. Marshall and his three daughters and we lose the vaccine.
report
I know the commander, because he’s my pal
report
God, he looks so …. so young.
He sees the city on the hill.
report
Bonus points for 80s Bill Murray film pun, Alec.
report
More bonus points for the comment about the 80s Bill Murray film pun, Wizlah.
Can’t be too many of us here who remember it.
*Wipes tear from wrinkled old eye*
Oh, and: Get pills against my orders. Get Pills.
report
I watched that movie when I was relatively little and I think I even laughed at maybe one part, but I can’t be too sure.
report
Correction: 90s, not really so old. One of my favorites, along with Groundhog Day.
report
“im gonna find em, one way or another”
*gunfire, explosions*
“WHO ARE ‘THEY’??”
*more explosions*
“YOU ARE A FOOL… you… cannot….. stop them…”
*kerpoooww*
“i love you…”
“THIS ENDS NOW”
looks like the writing has definitely become a lot more sophisticated since the original.
report
AH MISTAH JC DENTON IN DA FWESH!
report
AS DAWK AND SEWIOUS AS HIS BWOTHER
report
Have you heard of the Wooominous Paaarth?
report
I speell my dreenk.
report
You make a good detective JC!
report
Hahaha
report
Every single DX3 trailer is a mess of awful, awful dialogue.
DX1 was a game where you’d stop the gameplay to have longwinded discussions with random bartenders. DX3 is looking like a game where you hammer the spacebar to make everyone shut up so you can get back to sneaking through vents, planting LAMs, and sniping.
report
*Rings the Not-As-Good-As-You-Remember bell as hard as he can*
report
Actually, from what I’ve seen so far, Human Revolution seems to have better dialogue than the original Deus Ex.
report
Rhetoric! And yew believe it?!
report
And speaking of familiar things – isn’t the asian lady at 1:26 wearing a rather distinctive dress?
report
SHe misses that particular accent :P. But yeah, I thought ”Maggie Chow” as soon as I saw her convincing methods.
report
It’s probably been there for quite a while, but there’s also mention of VersaLife in the “history of augmentation” on the Sarif Industries website. Good times.
report
Got some TRON vibes from the music in this video. Not a bad thing of course, it’s a great OST (for a rubbish movie).
report
Which one?
report
Sounds a lot like Recognizer.
report
I don’t know why but I thought Ghost in the Shell theme tune, but I think that’s just because its as close to a ‘Deus Ex: the TV series’ as you could get
report
OLD MEN PLAYING AT RUNNING THE WORLD
report
Within tho months?
report
No. Within six months.
report
What a shame.
report
thats terror.
report
More like 3 months. Release date is 23rd/25th/26th of August, depending upon which continent you reside.
report
OCEANS
report
DESTROY THE FUCKING OCEAN.
I really wish I could find that video again.
report
Holy Shitteraroonies!
Woooooo. Lovely. Hee hee, can’t wait.
report
Barret spotted, Namir spotted, Hardesty spotted, and I am guessing the guy with grey hair is Saxon.
report
Self-enforced DX blackout will not let me watch the trailer. :(
report
You should. It might make you cancel your pre-order. You might end up regretting buying it if you don’t know what you are getting.
report
1. I haven’t pre-ordered DX:HR. The concept of pre-ordering seems a little weird to me.
2. I can’t draw conclusions about the quality of the game from the trailer; at best, it can only serve to spoil surprises in the game.
3. When it comes to buying, I’d base it mostly on an RPS WIT/Verdict.
report
Preordering on a place like Steam still makes sense from a save-yo-money perspective. I’ll “preorder” it on Steam a full day before it launches, to take advantage of the price drop while it exists, and also allow it to download. Then I unlock as soon as it launches.
Erm, just forgot that RPS is UK based. You gents across the pond get cheaper prices by preordering too, right?
report
I love this comment thread. I love you guys *sob* so fucking much.
MANHUG.
report
0:38 Batman?
report
No comments on the trailer? Them don’t want us to know…
report
On the last post about DX3 I said I might cancel my pre-order… yeah, that’s not going to happen.
I can’t wait for this game!
report
Hell and damn yeah. Hopefully the action in game is as good as they depict in the trailer.
report
I’m Batm…I mean Adam Jenson
report
Crescendo is the rising build up not the climax, clearly you don’t listen to Mr Walker’s excellent Rum Doings. <_<
report
I’m so worried about the regen health/possibly cover system level design. Will definitely be waiting for a WIT before purchase.
report
I was watching a stream of someone playing the leak, and it seems that the regen at least takes quite a long time to trigger, maybe 20 seconds or so.
Still, I agree. Would’ve preferred a Far Cry 2 system myself, it’s the best of both worlds.
report
Just thought I’d mention that Bob Page is mentioned in passing in the Book that was released early this year.
report
What Page?
Guffaw
report
Okay, so all these characters are (quite possibly) reprising their roles from the first game. This begs the question – what the hell happens to Adam Jensen? He sure ain’t on the scene anymore when JC and his brother turn up.
Will the ending ask us to determine Adam’s fate, with death (or some kind of ‘ending’ to his life, e.g. merging with AI) predetermined from the very start?
Whatever happens, I’m betting on dark and unhappy, with no fluffly bunnies running through petal-strewn meadows singing joyful medleys while Adam decides he’s had enough of all the cyber-gloom and moves to Sussex to join his cousin’s cake decorating business. Don’t ask me why, it’s just a hunch.
report
He becomes Daedalus!
report
Well whatever the ending is, it can’t be more depressing than ANY of IW’s endings. o_O
report
He changes his name to Walton. I bet 50p.
report
I’m going to guess that his genetic material is used to create Paul and JC, and then he’s killed by MJ12 because they can’t control him.
report
Hey, IW had a Helios ending.
report
@sinister agent: Hmm, they do have similar voices, what a fucking great twist THAT would be…
report
What’s the deal with fps drops during the trailer?
Also I still can’t stand the retarded renaissance dresses everyone is wearing like it makes sense…
report
I love the art design. I mean it’s a change from what you’d normally expect people to wear in sci-fi which gives the game a unique feel. Not to mention the linking of the shape of the world during the renaissance to as it is in the game as both tie towards exploration of the human body.
report
People in the original Deus Ex probably think the same about the cyber-renaissance style as we think now about 80s fashion: “What the hell were we thinking?”
report
Reckon Morgan Everett might make an appearance too, as Page’s mentor.
report
There better be 6 different endings at the bare minimum.
report
Doesn’t the events in this game happen like 50 years before DX?
Page didn’t seem like he was more than 60 years old.
report
I believe it’s thirty years, but my memory may be faulty.
report
“The game takes place during the year 2027, 25 years before Deus Ex.”
report
I hope we get to see the still-standing Statue of Liberty, and we can be like, “OOOH, FORESHADOWING!”
report
@Fung: Seems my memory isn’t as good as it used to be.
Thanks for clearing things up for me.
report
Is it just me, or was that JC kicking the collective asses of a bunch of Crysis nanosuit-lite dudes?
report
Because I’m a vengeful power crazy bastard, on my first playthrough of Deus Ex, I wanted to kill Bob Page and then merge with Helios to become a living god.
But as soon as I killed Page, the Illuminati ending kicked in and I was all sadface.
report
On my first Deus Ex playfhrough (and I can’t remember if I ever completed the game more than once), I saved the game in the middle of the last level and got all three endings in about fifteen minutes of play. If I remember right, there’s a bunch of creatures to kill for one ending, a bunch of stuff to blow up for a second, and maybe you kill Simons for the third – I don’t remember exactly. So I killed seven out of eight greasels and three out of four computers, saved the game, and savescummed all three endings from that point.
report
I’m still fervently praying that they won’t screw this one up. I dearly loved the first Deus Ex game, even the terrible voice acting.
I SPEEL MY DRINK!
report