Gamers are obsessed with game length and love hearing about how long it takes to complete any given title. With that in mind, I present to you claims from Eidos Montreal that Deus Ex: Human Revolution will take over 25 hours to beat.
The game can now be played to completion, and producer David Anfossi claims that its testers couldn't reach the end in the six days they had to play it.
"So far with them playing about six hours every day, most of them don't complete the game," he brags in PC Gamer.
Initial reactions are said to be positive, with Anfossi noting how the game opens up and becomes more ambitious than people expect: "The ones that are more casual gamers, who are used to more 'corridor, cut-scene, corridor, cut-scene' type of gameplay -- they play it that way for a while. Then suddenly, there's this new world that opens to them, and they start getting a bit more creative."
Being part of one of the most respected franchises going, Human Revolution has a lot at stake. I dare say many gamers will be unhappy no matter the result, but how are you feeling? Are you looking forward to the game, and does 25 hours feel like enough?
Deus Ex: Human Revolution is '25 hours long' [CVG]
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10:00 AM on 01.17.2011 | 
Looking very forward to it. Gameplay looks solid from the snippets we've seen, and if they manage to pull off a cool story that will be a plus.
Very few things annoy my more as a gamer than when a dev says, "Oi! Look at this! We have 20,594,394,184,193 hours of gameplay for you!" when you realize it's all fetch quests, escort missions and backtracking. Part of the reasons game are so long these days is because it just takes that damn long to go from point A to point B, things to do notwithstanding. Then when it is time to do something, you just don't care.
But its looking to be a good game that will do well, I think.
Also, considering one play through can be rather different from the next depending upon how you play the scenarios, 25 hours the first time is more than enough.
However, the presentation will probably be killer and even it out. I hope it's as good as it looks - and 25 hours is solid, as the Deus Ex series is meant for multiple playthroughs. At least...I hope!
Didn't see you there. You just described Epic Mickey!
All I'm saying is that I hope Deus Ex:HE is good enough to warrant a full purchase.
What's even better is I've never played the original, so I won't have to battle nostalgia the entire time!
I can pretend it just grazed the guy's temple, but let it count for something.
I always prefer the non-lethal approach in these types of games, though. Running and gunning is only one way of going about things, which is what makes DX refreshing.
Second of all, I hope that the time it takes testers to play a game isn't used a benchmark number for a game's length, as it'd hardly be a good comparison for a "typical experience."
Third, when is it useful for a dev to speculate on how long a game will take their consumers to complete? If they guessimate too long, it looks like they intentionally inflated it: queue the crybabies. If they guessimate too short, they risk short-selling the value to those who care before release -- why do it at all?
Devs should shut up about it and bloggers should stop putting gas on the fire.
I need this game now, I'm tired of waiting. It's been too long since I've had a Deus Ex experience, and the only one I can realistically play at the moment is the PS2 version. Which...well, blows.
I loved the political angle of the original. and the fact that its story ran with all of the current real life 'conspiracies' (The trilaterals and govt created viruses)
and with 25 hour game, if its good and has multiple solutions and endings like the 1st it will have relatively high replay value
I loved the political angle of the original. and the fact that its story ran with all of the current real life 'conspiracies' (The trilaterals and govt created viruses)
and with a 25 hour game, if its good and has multiple solutions and endings like the 1st it will have relatively high replay value
But srsly, good news. Hate short games you paid full price for.
how long was the campaign for RDR supposed to be? cause technically mine lasted 150 hours before i decided to do the last mission.
shit my game of just cause 2 is at 150+ hours and ive done about 20% of the actual story missions.
And you seriously blame them after what happened to Deus Ex 2?
First time i saw the trailer they released it gave me goosebumps and i had to go out and buy Blade Runner on blu-ray.
If it plays as differently as they claim, and its really 25 hours long then its 25 times three fo my part.
Once as stealth, once as action and once as just talking through the game. Its gonna be amazing.
Please, please do not fail me Deus Ex, like Metro 2033 did ;)
I really want this game to be good (and what I've seen has looked good), but I fear that it will be bad.
Squeenix has all the wrong priorities these days.
I still play DEx at least once a year, that is coming in at a couple of hundred hours of play time.
Have to agree with @BiggyP, I really wanted to love Metro 2033.
It's on the short side for that genre, but it will be adequate.
Needless to say, I am STOKED. Can not frigging wait for this game.