As much as I wanted to like Deus Ex: Human Revolution, I left it half way with disappointment.
I loved the soundtrack. The production value and storyline is strong. But the long load times and performance glitches added major hurdles in the flow of the story.
For a game essentially on rails (the surroundings feel very hollow once you start exploring), the story was not paced fast enough to preserve some sense of urgency and overall interest.
Instead, I found myself stuck in long cycles of crouching, avoiding detection, being killed by one shot, reloading, crouching, avoiding detection, being killed by one shot, rinse and repeat.
I just have too many games to go through after long periods of exploration of Elder Scrolls open worlds. Repeating the same sequences again and again between long load times is not my idea of a playable game.
It is too bad. Maybe I will revisit it at a later date but for the time being, this one is shelved.
