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** Visiting the basement of Picus and snooping in their files shows how easily and to how great an extent mass media can manipulate people. But it's just a plot point of a conspiracy theory game, right? Right? Wrong. Picus is a thinly veiled {{Expy}} of [[Creator/FoxNewsChannel NewsCorp]]. Which already controls an obscene amount of media ''[[http://frugaldad.com/2011/11/22/media-consolidation-infographic/ worldwide]].''
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** Visiting the basement of Picus and snooping in their files shows how easily and to how great an extent mass media can manipulate people. But it's just a plot point of a conspiracy theory game, right? Right? Wrong. Picus is a thinly veiled {{Expy}} of [[Creator/FoxNewsChannel NewsCorp]].[=NewsCorp=]. Which already controls an obscene amount of media ''[[http://frugaldad.com/2011/11/22/media-consolidation-infographic/ worldwide]].''
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As the game won awards by the entry's own admission, it doesn't count as this.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Augmentation could have been used to explore how new technology can exacerbate existing inequalities and class divisions, in this case by giving physical and mental advantages to those who can afford them while everyone else is left behind and potentially out of a job. Rather than make this argument the anti-augmentation faction instead makes nonsensical claims about augmentation being unnatural despite being happy to wear glasses and carrying phones.
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* VindicatedByHistory: The game was overlooked by many when it came out, as 2011 was chock full of great titles, but when Game of the Year discussions came up later on, ''Human Revolution'' was on the short list in just about everyone's book, prompting some to give it a closer look.
** The game won five awards at the 2012 Canadian Videogame Awards, including the high profile Console Game of the Year award.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Augmentation could have been used to explore how new technology can exacerbate existing inequalities and class divisions, in this case by giving physical and mental advantages to those who can afford them while everyone else is left behind and potentially out of a job. Rather than make this argument the anti-augmentation faction instead makes nonsensical claims about augmentation being unnatural despite being happy to wear glasses and carrying phones.
** The game won five awards at the 2012 Canadian Videogame Awards, including the high profile Console Game of the Year award.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Augmentation could have been used to explore how new technology can exacerbate existing inequalities and class divisions, in this case by giving physical and mental advantages to those who can afford them while everyone else is left behind and potentially out of a job. Rather than make this argument the anti-augmentation faction instead makes nonsensical claims about augmentation being unnatural despite being happy to wear glasses and carrying phones.
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* ScrappyMechanic: Hacking would be tolerable if it were used infrequently but given that keys, lockpicks and multitools no longer exist you'll be using it for absolutely everything, from opening doors to disabling security grids to hacking computers to read emails. The minigame quickly becomes tedious but it's at times necessary to advance the plot, and the EXP rewards mean players will likely feel pressured to hack every computer and alarm they come across, even if they already have the password.
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** Hacking would be tolerable if it were used infrequently but given that keys, lockpicks and multitools no longer exist you'll be using it for absolutely everything, from opening doors to disabling security grids to hacking computers to read emails. The minigame quickly becomes tedious but it's at times necessary to advance the plot, and the EXP rewards mean players will likely feel pressured to hack every computer and alarm they come across, even if they already have thepassword.password.
** Energy depleting takedowns are your ''only'' melee option and energy cells take a decent bit to recharge, notably ''VideoGame/DeusExTheFall'' seemingly agreed and added an upgrade to have 2 cells regenerate on their own, which the ''Director's Cut'' version of ''Human Revolution'' made standard.
** Hacking would be tolerable if it were used infrequently but given that keys, lockpicks and multitools no longer exist you'll be using it for absolutely everything, from opening doors to disabling security grids to hacking computers to read emails. The minigame quickly becomes tedious but it's at times necessary to advance the plot, and the EXP rewards mean players will likely feel pressured to hack every computer and alarm they come across, even if they already have the
** Energy depleting takedowns are your ''only'' melee option and energy cells take a decent bit to recharge, notably ''VideoGame/DeusExTheFall'' seemingly agreed and added an upgrade to have 2 cells regenerate on their own, which the ''Director's Cut'' version of ''Human Revolution'' made standard.
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* StrawMan: Both sides of the augmentation debate get hit with this. The pro-augmentation side is opposed to any kind of regulation or scrutiny even when it's outfitting people with concealed arm blades and bombs, or systems to drug people with pheromones. The anti-augmentation faction understandably does want regulation but to falsify a debate the majority are portrayed as a bunch of violent fanatics who rant about the unnaturalness of augmentations rather than having legitimate concerns about ordinary people being left behind or pressured to change their bodies just to get a job [[spoiler: and their leader Bill Taggart is secretly part of the villainous Illumati]].
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* StrawMan: Both sides of the augmentation debate get hit with this. The pro-augmentation side is opposed to any kind of regulation or scrutiny even when it's outfitting people with concealed arm blades and bombs, or systems to drug people with pheromones. The anti-augmentation faction understandably does want regulation but to falsify a debate the majority are portrayed as a bunch of violent fanatics who rant about the unnaturalness of augmentations rather than having legitimate concerns about ordinary people being left behind or pressured to change their bodies just to get a job [[spoiler: and their leader Bill Taggart is secretly part of the villainous Illumati]].Illumati]]. Nobody gets to be a reasonable moderate who wants cool robot arms and lifesaving medicine but has understandable concerns about having to get augments just to get a job or having to take anti-rejection drugs for the rest of their life.
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** Visiting the basement of Picus and snooping in their files shows how easily and to how great an extent mass media can manipulate people. But it's just a plot point of a UsefulNotes/ConspiracyTheory game, right? Right? Wrong. Picus is a thinly veiled {{Expy}} of [[Creator/FoxNewsChannel NewsCorp]]. Which already controls an obscene amount of media ''[[http://frugaldad.com/2011/11/22/media-consolidation-infographic/ worldwide]].''
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** Visiting the basement of Picus and snooping in their files shows how easily and to how great an extent mass media can manipulate people. But it's just a plot point of a UsefulNotes/ConspiracyTheory conspiracy theory game, right? Right? Wrong. Picus is a thinly veiled {{Expy}} of [[Creator/FoxNewsChannel NewsCorp]]. Which already controls an obscene amount of media ''[[http://frugaldad.com/2011/11/22/media-consolidation-infographic/ worldwide]].''
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* UnderusedGameMechanic: Did you know that you can destroy doors and vent entrances in this game? Probably not (and if you did, it was only by accident), because there's never a good reason to want to do so. Ammo is scarce enough to make blasting through them a bad idea, it's much easier to hack doors, and vents are never even locked. You can even check their health, but only after you've unlocked them. The feature seems to be grandfathered in from the first game, where destroying doors actually ''was'' a useful mechanic if you were out of lockpicks.
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* AuthorsSavingThrow: The Director's Cut, which was originally planned to be exclusive to the UsefulNotes/WiiU, was made available for the [=PS3=], [=XBox 360=], and PC.
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*** Some would argue that the game also satirizes the idea of global warming with Darrow's Panchaea. This may or may not be the case, [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical but isn't that how it always is?]]
