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Amazing music, the time mechanic is really interesting and the overall story is pretty nice! It is somewhat wonky on PC tho and it hangs here and there, but otherwise its perfectly fine.
Go buy that beautiful game.

20 enjoyable hours of staying in the title screen and listening to a damn wonderful soundtrack. Worth it.

Does not run on my PC regardless of any community fixes I've been trying to apply.

PC:
Windows 10 x64 Fall Creators Update
AMD RX 480 8 GB
intel i5 6600K
16 GB DDR4 RAM

Before you sink your money into this lootbox-ridden, ugly game and give it to the sh*tty developer Daybreak, download the Epic Game Launcher, install Fortnite, and have fun.
Seriously. Fortnite runs way better, has better Anti-Aliasing, no crazy fleshed out skin and lootbox system like this piece of sh*t has and is free to play.

I've got to wonder: Fortnite: BR was released into Early Access for free a little bit more than a month ago and is way, WAY better than this excuse for a game.

I got this game gifted and even that is too much of a price to ask for it.
Deinstalled, never playing again.

So... Deus Ex: Mankind Divided sure was a ride. After finishing the previous installation in the Deus Ex-franchise, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, I do have some thoughts to share on this particular game. I am going to divide my thoughts into four categories: Graphics, Gameplay/Controls, Technical Maturity and Story. I will stay spoiler-free in this review. If you want to skip, there is a TL;DR: at the bottom of the text.

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is stunning in a graphical manner. The characters are well designed and the areas are quite clearly pretty polished. Under the DX12 API there were graphical glitches, but more on that under Technical Maturity. There was clearly put effort into making the overall game experience look fantastic, it had quite the feel to it. I was not that huge into the Deus Ex-franchise, but coming from the previous game, it sure had a continuity of some sorts to it. It was very aesthetically pleasing in my opinion to play this game.

After rebinding some of the default key layouts, it was actually quite nicely to control. The sticky cover mechanics are excellent for stealth, the only thing that annoyed me about that was the cover mechanic when trying to take cover behind a movable object. Sometimes Adam wouldn't go into cover as he was supposed to, but in the end it was quite good I would say.
Gameplay-wise, from a stealth-preferring standpoint, most of the guns were practically useless. The only weapons to be useful were the Tranquilizer Sniper and the Stun Gun, only later-on I found the Machine Pistol with EMP rounds quite useful. But other than that, you could basically only go with the first two and never change it, there was never really a need to buy ammunition.
The areas for the different missions were okay, sometimes it was clearly not as polished as it was in the previous game. Sometimes trying to stealth your way through things is way too easy and sometimes it is way too hard, unless you take out the guards, even if you didn't want to.
The non-lethal CQC was quite fulfilling to use, it was context-aware of sorts, so it did help a lot in that regard.
Overall, the Gameplay and Controls were between okay and very good, it sort of came down to several factors, mostly depended on the mission and your current position.
Also, it is f-ing disgusting to see that Square Enix thought it was needed to tack Microtransactions onto a already finished game. Thankfully, it doesn't impede the game at all, at least for me, but it is quite vomit-inducing how some publishers can behave.

Using the DX12-API, when first playing the game in December 2016, it was extremely glitchy. It was playable of sorts, but the graphical glitches were insane for a title with this big of a budget. Nowadays most of that has been fixed and sorted out, with the later AMD drivers on my RX 480 getting the game to run relatively smoothly on nearly all occasions. The framerates do quite go into the lower 40's when running in the City of Prague, so when there is a lot going on, prepare for stuttering. Thankfully this was not the case in pretty much all of the mission areas, it was quite playable there and most of the time it hovered between 100 FPS and 140 FPS, so quite good. It just took some time to adjust some of the graphical settings, but I guess it isn't as needed as it would be in some other titles. Overall the game runs quite well on AMD hardware (no wonder, since it's a AMD sponsored title...) and it is enjoyable to play.

So... as you might have gathered from the other reviews for this game, the story is... well, let's say, between mediocre and okay. Coming directly from the previous game, it was quite hard to get into this one. The start is somewhat odd, but later on in the story most of the things that were happening were being explained. But only in the second half of the game it really took me and kept me interested. In the beginning and most of the start of the story, it didn't really catch my interests, so I put the game on hold and played something differently, only to come back a few months later.
In the second half of the game it gets quite interesting. The plot kind of develops in a slow manner, taking you from Point A to Point B, but the storytelling is great.
It gets kinda tense near the end, but, as you might have read elsewhere... There is not really a end. Sure, there is a Ending and you get the credits, but it's rather a cliffhanger than a proper end. It's clear that there was supposed to be a sequel to this, but... well, let's just say too high sales expectations and other ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ by the publisher, namely Square Enix, forced the game to kind of stay on a hold. I really hope it gets continued, but so far there has been no news regarding a sequel to this one.
So, if you are a hardcore Deus Ex-fan, well, you might've already played this one and felt somewhat the same. But if you are interested in this game, not really that into the Deus Ex-franchise, or rather, this is your first one, if the ending doesn't bother you, this game can be fun. But certainly not on full price.

Well, overall this game was a mixed bag for me. It is quite the sign for me to put away a sequel of a game I really adored, but it really got better, only to just put me right in front of a cliffhanger. And there's no sign of a sequel yet, since the Deus Ex-franchise is in somewhat of a limbo.
As I summarized in the points above, this game can be quite enjoyable. If you are a light Deus Ex-Fan or someone that hasn't played any of the franchise, this can be a good game to play and sink around 20 hours in, even more if you take on every side quest.
But since the DX12 implementation is kind of glitched and not really well fleshed out, I'd recommend staying in DX11.
If it hits a sale, go on and buy this game. It can be worth your time and money, but not for 50 €.

TL;DR: Overall good game borked by a greedy publisher with a cliffhanger at the end with no conclusion in sight. Maybe buy it in a sale.

GTA V is an amazing game, very fun to play.
The Online mode sucks.

But you know what sucks even more?

Take Two Interactive.
Screw you, you soulless corporate machine of c*cksuckers.
You greedy little idiots, who make thousands of hours of work literally vanish into nothing by c&d'ing OpenIV.

Go f*ck yourself.

Quick Port Overview for those looking to buy:

• Playable with Keyboard and Mouse, seems responsive
  
  
• Detailed resolution options only in fullscreen, more limited in Windowed (544p, 720p, 1080p on my 1080p-Monitor). But you can change to a custom resolution via the launcher.ini at
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• Borderless Windowed Option
  
  
• Simple graphic options menu, includes AA up to 16x and AF
  
  
• Audio output seems bugged, my headset is the output, which is connected to a PCIe-Soundcard, deactivitating via Windows doesn't work. Workaround is to plug the speakers to the sound card, could be fixed in a patch as far as I can see
  
  
• On my RX 480/i5 6600k Desktop 999 runs perfectly smooth and fine without dips. It was the same at first on my i5 2520M T420s, but for some reason it started to dip to 17 - 22 FPS within the second riddle. I turned off AA and AF and it's running without the severe frame tanking. Also, I can't see any difference in graphic fidelity with having those turned off. So I guess it's a must-have option to turn off AA and AF if you have a lower end system.
  
  
• The UI does not scale at all as it seems, the Save Screen is huge and is convoluted, will update when getting further into the game
  
  
• Menu options don't scroll with mouse wheel or with the movement of your mouse, only a click or using the arrow keys will change the highlighted menu button
  
  
• There are keyboard shortcuts for the various interactions in the game, but are not rebindable. It's also completely playable only using the mouse so far.
  
  
• It has only 30 save files, though that is more than enough for someone like me.
  
  
• The game has native Steam Controller and Dualshock 4 support with the default profiles (thanks to Moskeeto)
  
  
• 999 and VLR don't have a "Close"-button, but you can quit out of the game via Right Click in the Main Menu or via the B-Button on XBOX (or equivalent) controller
  
  
• I forgot to note that both Virtues Last Reward and 999 have a options menu, where you can adjust seperate audio sliders like BGM, SFX and Voices. You also have a sensitivity choice for the cursor (if using a Gamepad is something you'd want to do), as well as a option to enable skip text and a choice between Japanese and English voices. I am using the Japanese voiceover and so far, besides the puzzle bits, it seems to be fully voiced with animations.
  
  
• You can change between GamePad and Keyboard/Mouse on the fly, the only thing that the launcher option for the input device changes seems to be the shown input button ingame
  
  
• Game speed seems to be tied to framerate, so thats unfortunate.
  
  It seems alright besides the Audio issue. Might want to wait for one or two patches.

Geht so.

If you like first-person shooter with the ability to modify weapons with attachements, play tactically with your friends and have fun with realistic first-person shooter, Insurgency is the game to get.

The graphics of this game are really neat. It looks like it has been developed with real photos, thats how realistic it seems to be. The game overall is very hard: You got no crosshair on any weapon, are stuck with realistic recoil and have almost no HUD. Besides that, in the Multiplayer mode it is hard to determine whether you killed the enemy or not; you got neither a killcam nor a display that shows your kills. Besides that, this game is heavily teambased. If you can't depend on your teammates in multiplayer mode, you are going to have a hard time.
In addition to that, you got very little health. If you don't take heavy armor, you are going to get killed easily by almost every weapon in 2-4 shots. Furthermore, the respawn time is very long; so if you like to play and not die, you got to be very careful in every move you take.

Overall, I like this game very much. Its different from the usual types of FPS like Call of Duty, and thats why it is that much fun. If you are really into realistic fps, this should be your game.