Deus Ex: Human Revolution Previews
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This time instead of entering through the main door, Jensen heads to the side of the building and uses his strength to push a dumpster up against a chainlink fence, which he then hops over. Apparently he could also have overcome this obstacle by finding a hidden maintenance corridor nearby.
He mounts a nearby fire escape and ascends to a service door on an upper floor. It requires a code, and Jensen doesn't have it, so he tries to hack his way through. This door requires a level-3 hacking skill, so we dive into the augmentation menu. Here we see a list of available augmentations, each of which costs XP, and an image of Jensen. When he highlights a new augmentation the image shows where it would go, and each augmentation has its own tech tree. By spending a few XP here he's soon a level-3 hacker.
And then we move over to 1UP for a shorter take on the demonstration:
You have a few different ways to reacquire the chip. The first we see is probably what many gamers will instinctively do -- blast their way inside. That's exactly what our demoer does; he basically runs in, guns blazing, and shows off some of the cool tactics at your disposal. As he makes his way through one of the police offices, he picks up a copy machine and throws it forward to use as cover. Once behind it, he's able to position himself to blindfire at cops (who are using their own desks as cover). We also see how you can use your X-ray vision augmentation, which highlights exactly where enemies are within the environment (we could see several waiting behind some cube walls).
After that, we get a demo of some weapon choices, like enhancing the pistol with explosive bullets (each weapon has multiple possible upgrades). Another cool example of this is the mine template -- a schematic that lets you combine a mine with any sort of grenade you have in your inventory. And if you were wondering, yes, there are also weapons that just stun your opponents instead of killing them. Anyway, our demoer makes his way through the station, unfortunately taking out plenty of cops along the way. He uses mines to disable sensors and eventually makes it to the morgue, gets the chip, and escapes out a lower exit into the sewers.
