Deus Ex: Human Revolution Preview
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Reading through the emails only serves to raise more questions than they answer, although it's not like we had any just yet. For instance, in an email between Reed and Sarif, Reed's anxious correspondence reveals that she's worried that the committee will ask where she got the first sample and who is patient X, revealing that things may not be as straightforward as we once thought. The emails also act as a decent source of information and will do throughout the game, so it's in your best interest to snoop around. Here, we also find out that Reed has a mom and a dog... thrilling stuff. My sarcasm aside, later on in the game these tidbits of info may prove invaluable... and I'm sure they'll provide their fair share of key code passes, right? I mean, that's a requirement for a game that involves infiltration... or is that a faux pas?
After absorbing every morsel of information from Reed's office, we finally made our way into the lab with Reed, where we are steered on-rails as the conversation picks up. As the pair converse with one another and various other scientists that populate the lab, you're given free reign over where Jensen looks but that's about it. Soaking in the atmosphere though is pretty special on its own, and watching dozens of scientists go about their tasks and robot arms whiz around you is almost enough to take your attention away from the conversation. If it wasn't though, the guy dropping a stack of boxes directly in front of you as you make your way through the lab or Reed's associate, Vasili, showing a General their recently developed Typhon Explosion System almost certainly will more on that in the next preview. Incidentally, I feel I should mention that the huge diversity in NPC character models and their different canned animations in this sequence does wonders for maintaining an impressively high level of immersion.
