If you don’t fancy using your weapons (or are out of ammo for the weapon of choice), there’s the option of getting down and dirty with your hands at a cost of one cell of energy – which is a much more limited resource in some ways than ammo (we’ll cover energy in just a minute). Takedowns can also be either lethal or non-lethal – sneak up behind someone and do a quick tap to knock them unconscious (in a pretty awesome looking scene), or hold the same button to drop a razor blade from your sleeve a la Wolverine and put them down permanently. Either way involves a little finesse, as you need to sneak behind the intended victim to perform the maneuver, but it makes a great option at times and a nice change of pace. It also lets you switch it up between being nice and being mean on-the-fly, no matter what your weapons loadout. Weapons (and ammo that isn’t in the clip) take up inventory, which is quite limited in space. Inventory can be upgraded in the augmentation process (more on this shortly), but management will very quickly become key to your gameplay.
#DEUS EX HUMAN REVOLUTION LEVELS SERIES#
Fortunately, DX:HR does something no other game in the series did – it provides an auto-manager that rearranges inventory for you to find the absolute best use of space at any point. You can choose to disable this feature, though frankly I can’t imagine for the life of me why you would do such a thing. Suffice it to say that a couple extra augmentation points on inventory are well-spent unless you like playing bare-minimum on the weapons loadout. By the time I was done with my first mission, I was already running out of space. Along with the weapons and ammo will come a host of small items – grenades, nutrients, etc.
Each of these will take up precious space in your pack, so finding the most efficient arrangement is important. Using what you’ve gotĪlong with your arsenal, you also pack your augmentations. Augs get upgraded through “Praxis points”, which can be purchased/found in Praxis kits or earned through experience over time. The experience point concept is nicely woven into the story (though, oddly, not until you’ve already earned a bit), describing how you can’t simply “turn on” so many enhancements at once without putting the body further in shock. I wish it came up earlier in the story, as I’d not found out about this “logic” until well past the point where it felt like a random ‘meter’ gauge… but it is there.
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