A feast for Deus Ex fans - for everyone else still a good book

Books videogame series are not a new trend in the area of ​​merchandising, but have games like Halo or Dragon Age books or book series get brought. However, as with the cinema films, the quality varies greatly.

Is all the more pleasing that the first book, which plays in the Deus Ex universe, is surprisingly well done. It just works hard pressed to tell the most a peripheral edge or history to the actual action, but, strictly speaking, does this Icarus Effect and with flying colors.

It creates the author James Swallow sent characters from the first Deus Ex game weave into the plot. All in the game Human Revolution and the novel takes place according to the time before the first Deus Ex. So you get as a fan of the show not only an insight into the background of the plot of the new series part, but also other marginal figures like Gunther Hermann, Lucius DeBeers or later US President Philip Mead get meaningful appearances in the plot donated and give an insight into their backstory.

The main plot follows two protagonists, on the one hand the soldier Benjamin Saxton, who has been hired from a private mercenary army to mingle in the trouble spots of the world in 2027, and the Secret Service agent Anna Kelso. Both are involved in the course of action in a web of conspiracies and dark secrets, in any wrong step could mean death.

This reminds the faithful fan comforting to the game experience of the first Deus Ex from the year 2000 and in fact can be found as a player many situations and dialogues that could come straight out of the game. So you find yourself, if you are familiar with the scenario and the political groups involved, their way quickly and knows who is pulling the strings behind the scenes.

Uninitiated is educating conspiracies rather than placed and plagiarized come along and generally to be people who do not know the scenario, a hard time to warm up with the book. I would therefore strongly recommend at least Trailer and images of the new Deus Ex game to look to at least get an idea of ​​the world in which plays the book. Ideally, you've played the first Deus Ex and already knows what human augmentation is able or will be.

Because the whole metaphor of the Rise and Fall of Icarus, is a symbolic illustration of the question of how our society would develop, if we had access to technical improvements of our body is able. If missing limbs or eyesight disabilities through technical implants and prostheses would be compensated and thus you would get instead an advantage over not "augmented" man.

Here, the book deals with the question of human always on a comprehensible level: in dialogues. Never the author loses in overlong explanations or thought processes which are only side filler at the end. This book reads quite fast and is wonderful to be able to build tension or hectic events convey equally.

Conclusion: For all Deus Ex fans who are command of English, this book is an absolute recommendations. If known characters appear as running a connoisseur a pleasant shiver down your spine, when you think back to the experience of the game and you will be disappointed with the book in any way. All others should consider whether it is not rather invest the money in the first Deus Ex and by playing it before they reach for this book. One who has experienced the fascination of the Deus Ex universe, which find it difficult to evade their.