Cover never feels quite right, the low FOV and low sensitivity make aiming an irritant, and bodies disappear a few seconds after death so you don’t need to worry about late detection. Combat is anaemic, with most weapons feeling about as powerful as peashooters, and it’s tricky to gauge whether a weapon you have is sufficient to take out an enemy with one hit or if it’ll magically alert both him and all the guards he’s “linked” to. The rest doesn’t really work too well, either. Good luck trying to pick something up if it’s placed next to a useless interactive object! Like, say, something sat in a phone booth! As if that wasn’t enough, you don’t use something in the environment by highlighting it with your crosshairs and pressing “Use”, because the game will normally ignore whatever you’re pointing at and choose whatever’s physically nearest in that general direction. The game regularly ignores mouse-clicks when it comes to interacting with menus, so you might have to click, oh, 30 times on “HACK” to actually start a hacking attempt. Not only can the keyboard controls not be rebound, but the mouse sensitivity is so sluggish that it feels low even when ramped up to maximum. This is a mobile port, but – what with the PC handling first-person games with aplomb – you’d think that this couldn’t go wrong. Alas, their supply of anti-rejection drug Neuropozyne is running low, so Saxon travels to Panama City to acquire a new supply… and then gets involved in unraveling a drug-related conspiracy, for basically no reason barring curiosity until pretty much the end of the game. Since then he’s been hiding in Costa Rica with Anna Kelso, who gets absolutely no exposition and is almost completely unexplained (unless you buy the novel Deus Ex: Icarus Effect, which apparently leads into this game). He then betrays them after his very first mission, because he discovers to his surprise that a group called “The Tyrants” may actually be manipulative and naughty. After a mission that Went Horribly Wrong, Saxon was rescued by the Tyrants – better known as “the really annoying bosses from Human Revolution” – and joined up with them. Deus Ex: The Fall puts players in the worn military boots of Ben Saxon, an augmented, ex-SAS, ex-Belltower operative who is so boring he could star in a series of Dan Brown novels.
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