I’m still finding it hard to believe Deus Ex: Human Revolution was such a kick ass game, one that I haven’t started playing a second time yet, simply because I want the experience to feel fresh when I get back around to it. Fortunately, I’ll have another reason to dive back in soon: downloadable content.
Eidos Montreal announced today that The Missing Link, which plugs in a narrative gap towards the end of the main story, will arrive for $15 on all three platforms on October 18.
Several team members came through San Francisco last month to show off The Missing Link, and while they admitted it’s slotted during a certain moment towards the end of Human Revolution that makes convenient narrative sense, they were adament this was not content cut from the main game.
To that end, the team said it would have been easier to simply augment the slew of content cut from Human Revolution, but the hope was to use the downloadable content as a way to show off how far the game’s technology had come from inception to completion and actually implement lessons learned from the game’s development. The art assets are brand-new in The Missing Link, the lighting looks improved, and that orange/ gold color scheme appears to have be ditched for a redder look.
And while you’re stripped of powers for a so-far undisclosed reason in The Missing Link (does it really matter?), that actually sounds pretty great, especially if you’re familiar with how BioShock 2’s Minerva’s Den worked. Like Minerva’s Den, The Missing Link will allow players to progress through most, if not all, of Human Revolution’s skill tree over the add-on’s heavily condensed time period. If you played through Human Revolution one way, The Missing Link will provide you with the opportunity to try something else. As someone who played the game as a stealthy hacker, maybe I’ll go all-guns this time.
Basically, I want to play The Missing Link.
Awesome
A great price, provided you get the same open-ended content you got in the retail game, replayable many times, many paths through with great level design.
$15 is a little more than I was expecting, but if it's quality content, then I'm all for it.
Probably play this after Arkham City and Uncharted 3, those games are just gonna eat up a lot of my time.
Isn't that sort of a high price? I guess I'll be waiting for reviews on this one. Hopefully it's as great as the rest of the game. Not that I'll have much time to play it this year anyway. hah
adament (sp)
Adamant
It's meant to be 5 hours long.
@Metal_Mills said:
Yeah, but there's been stuff like Fallout DLC that was longer than that and only $10. Some of the Borderlands stuff too. Oh well. $15 isn't bad, I guess.
Yes I understand this...DLC is wierd. Can't do with, can't do without. And I don't want to be a dick towards this game/dev.
There better be a PC version Dammit!
Four more hours of DE:HR for $15? Hell yeah!
So for the low low price of 1/4 of the game's original price. We can pay for content that was cut out of the game. OH JOY.
I'll buy it at a high price!
@bybeach said:
The DLC IS coming out for the PC, the in game banner says it's going to be available on Steam this month.
@MooseyMcMan said:
It's a quarter of the price you would have paid for the original retail release. That's pretty disgusting no matter how long the mission is. It's bad enough that shooters charge that much for map packs, if $15 is going to be the new norm for single-player dlc then shit's gone crazy.
Don't worry though, I'm sure they'll figure this out by the time new consoles arrive - $90 retail, get first dlc for free!
Still, I love me some Human Revolution... and lord knows I've already got my moneys worth from the main game, with 2 and a half runthrough clocking in at some 70 hours combined.
I'll wait for the GOTY edition next year.
$15 eh? Will be checking into reviews for it then. Cool that they're putting out more content. Though I hope more for a sequel than DLC. The game could use polishing and embellishment of the combat system. Wonderful start though.