Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut

K. Fields
2025-12-05T17:20:41-05:00
Video Games

After almost a month, I finished Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut. The Director's Cut provided additional content, including The Missing Link DLC. For this updated edition, the DLC was chronologically integrated into the main story. On top of the main missions, I completed almost all of the available side quests. Overall, I got a little more than 40 hours of gameplay out of it. The primary action was first-person but with third-person views when taking cover. There were a lot of stealth situations and I really enjoyed that aspect of the game. At its heart, however, was a role-playing game with social interaction, character enhancement, and inventory management.

Set in 2027, this is a prequel to the original Deus Ex. The plot involves tech corporations, the Illuminati, and the struggle between normal humans and augmented humans. The protagonist is Adam Jensen, head of security for Sarif Industries. His company works on human augmentations and Adam has several augmentations himself. As Adam gains experience, you have the option to select additional augmentations in a variety of categories. As a player, that presents some interesting choices. Do you enhance Adam's combat abilities, his stealth abilities, his hacking abilities, or something else? There are a decent amount of weapons and weapon upgrades in the game to choose from as well.

I liked the story, the voice acting, the stealth, and the combat. This was definitely one of my favorite games of the year. I look forward to playing the next game in the series, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided.

Adam Jensen