You Didn't Ask For an iOS Deus Ex Game, But Here It Is

If you, like me, heard the news of an upcoming Deus Ex announcement and marked the day on your calendar in excitement, you might want to sit down. Deus Ex: The Fall is not a sequel to Deus Ex: Human Revolution, and it's not even a console game. While that's not a great thing, it's not necessarily a bad thing either.

The Fall takes place after the "Deus Ex: The Icarus Effect" novel, and stars the novel's lead, an augmented ex-soldier named Ben Saxon. Ben is on the hunt for the ever-elusive neuropozyne, a drug which must be taken by augmented humans to survive but is rigidly controlled by the characteristically maniacal corporations who run the world.

As you can see in the video below, the game runs quite smoothly and does seem to feature effectively the same gameplay as Human Revolution, just a bit less sharp-looking and with different controls. That's the hangup for me, really, as Adam Jensen's toolkit of items, weapons and augmentations just barely fit onto a controller, and I'm skeptical about how smoothly it can be translated to touch screen usage. It is said that the display can be customized to fit the player's preference, however, which could alleviate those fears.

Deus Ex: The Fall is not the game I wanted, but if it really does capture every element of the Deus Ex experience, it'll at the very least be a damned impressive iOS game.

The Fall will be the first in a series of mobile games, to be released this summer at the price of $6.99. Check out the announcement video below.