This is the game that let me do a pacifist run and then had something happen in the story that made me immediately abandon my previous good-will and _shotgun everyone in the face_ and then has characters real enough that the first person who contacts me and is told about what just happened basically says to me 'look I know you might want to go around shotgunning people in the face...'
I find myself going to extraordinary ends just so that I could hack into people's emails and learn more about everything around me. In a game where you can drop a vending machine onto a guard joking about how terrible it would be to die by vending machine and confuse guards by constructing elegant barricades of cardboard boxes in their path, I realised half-way through the game that I'd never once even tried to shoot a friendly NPC or civilian just to see what happened. Because I was that much part of the game. And at the end when I'd finished talking to two absolute douches I let out my frustration by tranquillising them in the head.
The main bosses are nerve-wracking conversations as you try to take their motivation apart piece by piece and use it for your own ends. The final act of the game is not a boss fight but a choice. The game looks at you and it says, well you've experienced all this, you've seen every angle of what happens to humanity in it's drive to unnaturally improve itself through augmentations. You've seen how every person has been driven by his own motivation to his own ends to try and shape the world as they want it and you know what happened and what will go on to happen after this. _What do you do now?_
And yet my only complaint about this game was they didn't emphasise the story enough. The boss fights? With a bit of luck or preparation you can exploit your way through all of them with in a minute or so. In any other game they would be brilliant boss fights with multiple paths and integrated stealth/stun systems. This game was just better than them
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This is the game that let me do a pacifist run and then had something happen in the story that made me immediately abandon my previous good-will and _shotgun everyone in the face_ and then has characters real enough that the first person who contacts me and is told about what just happened basically says to me 'look I know you might want to go around shotgunning people in the face...'
I find myself going to extraordinary ends just so that I could hack into people's emails and learn more about everything around me. In a game where you can drop a vending machine onto a guard joking about how terrible it would be to die by vending machine and confuse guards by constructing elegant barricades of cardboard boxes in their path, I realised half-way through the game that I'd never once even tried to shoot a friendly NPC or civilian just to see what happened. Because I was that much part of the game. And at the end when I'd finished talking to two absolute douches I let out my frustration by tranquillising them in the head.
The main bosses are nerve-wracking conversations as you try to take their motivation apart piece by piece and use it for your own ends. The final act of the game is not a boss fight but a choice. The game looks at you and it says, well you've experienced all this, you've seen every angle of what happens to humanity in it's drive to unnaturally improve itself through augmentations. You've seen how every person has been driven by his own motivation to his own ends to try and shape the world as they want it and you know what happened and what will go on to happen after this. _What do you do now?_
And yet my only complaint about this game was they didn't emphasise the story enough. The boss fights? With a bit of luck or preparation you can exploit your way through all of them with in a minute or so. In any other game they would be brilliant boss fights with multiple paths and integrated stealth/stun systems. This game was just better than them