DEX: Review

The platformer in recent years, especially in the indie environment, has become a universal tool for creating games of various directions and topics. Roguelike, dark noir with jazz and dance of shadows on the walls of houses, some artistic sketches from the life of the northern peoples-the platformer seems suitable for everything. But the young studio DREADLOCKS LTD With the help of this mechanics, I tried to make my own Deus Ex. And she almost did it ..
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The hacking of cyberspace is implemented in the form of a mini-game similar to the one that we saw in Shadowrun Returns.

The hacker drives a hacker

The authors say they were inspired by novels William Gibson (William Gibson) and in general the classics of cyberpanus, and it is felt. The plot tie is exactly the classic: a girl with blue hair was sleeping peacefully in her bed, when a certain hacker contacted her and ordered to urgently run – they say, she is in great danger. You need to find a bar in the city, meet someone and get further instructions.

Then it turns out that the girl who received either the nickname or the name Dex has unique abilities: a piece of universal computer mind sits in her head, and now she can enter the cyberspace without any additional means and break it down. Therefore, representatives of powerful corporations took up the main character. The mysterious hacker and his friends decide to help her, but first you need to install a certain important implant in my head ..

Despite the not too original tie, the plot in Dex Interesting and intriguing – it affects the classic theme classic for the cyberpan and frames them with a more modern look, especially with regard to the concept of augmented reality.

Cyber ​​attractions

As it should be played, focusing on Deus Ex, There is often a choice of how to perform quests – both plot and side. There are a lot of the latter, because the scriptwriters do not hold our hands and almost immediately provide the opportunity to freely explore the huge city, open more and more quarters and help its inhabitants.

Give money for the treatment of a dying woman or convince her son to rob a clinic? Help the aging singer get rid of a crazy fan or, conversely, go to the latter for the latter for a rather big amount? Spread the virus in city terminals at the request of a bum or abandon this dubious plan? Each time you decide for yourself and each time encounter consequences – sometimes very dramatic: if, for example, not to stop the same fan in time, then the singer will die.

In addition, we communicate with drug dealers, visit the strip club luminous neon to convince the guy working there to return to the family, hacking doors and computers, read the correspondence and steal data, walk through the virtual space in search of information and money, give bribes, we are looking for compromises, investigate the dubious divisions of corporations and so on. In all this, the true, real cyberpunk is felt.

ABOUT Deus Ex Reminds the role system. In the sense that it involves different options for “pumping” and passing the game. You can develop a close battle to destroy enemies with combinations of attacks, or make a well -aimed professional shooter out of the heroine, gradually gaining access to more powerful types of weapons. At the same time, there is an opportunity to play a quiet killer who creeps up to the opponents from behind or cuts them off with an electromagnetic impulse. Or “pump” your skill of beliefs – with it you can peacefully solve many situations and successfully perform complex tasks. And, of course, there are various implants on the spot that increase the characteristics of the heroine or give her new abilities, such as a high jump.

They did not finish

The problem is that if with hacking, charisma, implants, atmosphere, plot and quests in Dex Everything is in perfect order, then with fights, shooting and stealth, let’s say, it could have been better.

Here we must remember that we have a platformer in front of us. That is, we run only left or right in two -dimensional space. And jump a lot. And for the platformer in close combat there are too few combo – everything, as a rule, boils down to waving hands and rifts between opponents. Shooting is generally implemented nightmare. And stealth, even by the standards of the platformer, is primitive. Well, in general, in the game, even after the months of beta testing, there are many flaws, technical flaws and critical even for the passage of the plot of bugs.

Dex Really similar to Deus Ex, And not only the consonant name. There is the same atmosphere, nonlinearity and real spirit of cyberpan. It is only incomprehensible whether it was worth realizing all this in the Platformer genre. One way or another, the game is required to familiarize all lovers William Gibson, “Runner on the blade” and the agent of Denton. It’s just better to wait until the authors finalize it and bring it to mind.

Pros: An interesting plot;many nonlinear quests;the ability to go through the game in different styles;Classical Cyberpanka atmosphere.
Cons: There are technical flaws and bugs;inconvenient management;poorly realized warhead.