Dex

I tried the Dex demo and really enjoyed, so grabbed the entire game. There's a lot of charm to be found. Visually, the game was quite appealing, music and sounds effects are great. Void acting is superb, although I did find some voices to hard to hear. This game reminded me oddly of a lot of good Wadget Eye games. It also reminded me of Shadowrun Hong Kong the way it switched between the physical and virtual words. The difference being I didn't get annihilated in Dex the way I do in Shadowrun. The quests were varied, and I liked the fact that for the most part I could go all stealthy and sneak around taking out enemies and exploring without being seen. I think I used a firearm only two or three times in the whole game. Skill trees are fairly interesting. I maxed out Charisma, Lockpicking and Hacking. I got pretty much to the end of the game before I spend the rest of the points, and I don't think they had the sligest impact on how I chose to play the game. You can also augment yourself in permant ways, again I went for those that let me mitigate enivronmental damange and that was pretty much it. I'm not entirely sure on the replay value - I think I found and completed all quests, and given I usually like the stealthy approach I don't often go back to a game and try it another way. But it certainly was a lot of fun and I hope Dreadlocks will revist this universe they have created in future.

There's a lot of things going for Dex - good voice acting, somewhat interesting stories, good atmosphere and art. But the gameplay is a bore. The combat is simple and lack any depth beyond clicking the mouse button. The skills and augmentations don't add much. You can pretty much coast through the game with maxed AR skills. And the game's overall story is pretty meh. Get it on sale to scratch a cyberpunk itch, but that's about it.

Was pretty interested when I started playing, however then realized the game resets your key bindings every time you die. I took that as a sign for things to come and gave it a pass.

This game was pretty good, but it does have some flaws though. I didn't really care for the combat, luckily it can be cheesed for most enemies by just hacking them and using the takedown move while they are stunned. The story was pretty good even though it was hard to follow sometimes. The music and the art style was really good. Also, I will give the devs props for offering a Linux version.

Simple mechanics and great story, a must for those with a cyberpunk itch!