![]() Combat, Stealth, Social and Hacking are the primary disciplines, and every one has its place and purpose in Human Revolution.ĭeveloping your Social augments, for example, allows you to become a (mostly) human polygraph machine. Four “pillars” support the gameplay and encourage you to develop a role and character for Jensen that fits your play-style and his place in this powder-keg world. HARD WIRED: Despite the narrative’s dictation of Jensen’s initial rebirth and his reinstatement as a badass security operative, Deus Ex: Human Revolution is a game about choice. ![]() Those who choose the path of augmentation accept the path of Neuropozyne dependence right along with it, creating a whole new breed of junkie who isn’t only bloody-minded in his pursuit of the drug but is also augmented – enhanced – beyond the capability of normal man. The drug Neuropozyne perpetuates and stabilises the bond between flesh and synthetic tissue – but brings with it its own side effects in the form of addiction and dependence. It’s not only Jensen’s struggle to accept what he has become, but humanity’s struggle to maintain the advantages they have given themselves. In Deus Ex those wings are augmentation, and the price is our humanity itself. Man was not meant to fly, and Icarus – and by extension his father, Daedelus – paid the ultimate price. Human Revolution equates the whole of humanity with that ancient Greek youth who took to the skies like a bird and flew too close to the sun. The legend of Icarus is a major thematic element and it’s not a subtle connotation. He is resurrected, in a manner of speaking, only to find that he has survived at a great cost: So much of him has been replaced by cybernetics that he constantly questions if he’s even human any more. On a normal day, he’d be dead, but Jensen works for Sarif. As head of security, Jensen intervenes, only to be beaten, shot and thrown clean through six-inches of glass. After a tour of the Sarif manufacturing floor with his ex-flame, the lead bio-technician, Megan Reed, Jensen’s life is altered forever when augmented terrorists storm the building, and either murder or abduct the researchers and scientists. ICARUS RISING: Protagonist Adam Jensen is rudely reborn to this middle ground as the game begins. Between those who see augmentation as the next – albeit artificial – stage of human evolution, and those who see it as an abomination against nature and humanity, there exists only a precarious, volatile middle ground occupied by those who never had the choice, accident victims who were “saved by science”, individuals augmented to preserve their lives at the perceived cost of their humanity. Even the UN keep peace with the help of Belltower Associates, a collective of PMCs that specialise in “urban pacification” and brutal crowd control.Ĭorporate tensions overshadow civilian unrest. In Deus Ex’s world, business is war, and both Sarif and Tai Yung employ their own private military companies to ensure their global stability. Sarif Industries sits atop the pile, fighting off competition from Tai Yung Medical, their closest rival. When money is God, whoever writes the biggest cheque sits on the throne, and the biggest business in the world is augmentation. In this world – which shares themes and ideals with the universe of Bullfrog’s (and now EA’s) Syndicate – corporations rule. ![]() In Human Revolution’s dystopian 2027, the controversial science of human cybernetic augmentation makes it possible to “fix” anything you need to fix and enhance anything you want to – whether it needs it or not. RETRO FUTURE: Consider, if you will, the world of Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Eidos Montreal’s gold-tinted prequel to Ion Storm’s now thirteen-year-old open-world role-playing shooter, Deus Ex. What would you change about yourself if you could? If money was no object and technology no boundary? Would you enhance your muscle mass? Increase your running speed, sexual prowess, physical strength? Would you sacrifice your flesh for mechanical enhancements? And would you ever worry, even for a moment, that in doing so you might be sacrificing your humanity a piece at a time? Imagine a world where you could lose the use of your legs, your eyesight, your hearing, and have anything replaced or repaired with a modicum of effort, with a procedure no more complicated than a surgical operation. Imagine a world without physical limitations, a world where you can change anything about yourself, enhance it, improve it, augment it a world where you could pay to make yourself stronger, faster, smarter, more resilient. ![]()
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