Before we say anything else, credit where credit’s due. Square-Enix hasn’t done what so many other publishers have done. It hasn’t taken a much-loved franchise and used the title and the style to skin a shooting gallery, a 2D platformer, a pseudo 3D blaster or any other kind of cut-down game. Deus Ex: The Fall, for better or worse, is Deus Ex: a fully 3D FPS with RPG elements, stealth and a story set in the same world as 2011’s Human Revolution, using characters and scenarios from tie-in novel. The Deus Ex: Icarus Effect. It’s a very ambitious thing to try on mobile platforms, and it works better than you might expect, if not quite as well as you might hope.
