Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut

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Summary

Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut includes around 8 hours of commentary from the director and a 45-minute “Making Of” documentary. It also introduces an enhanced visual engine and a full rework of the boss encounters. Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut is an expanded version of Deus Ex: Human Revolution, an action role-playing title. It serves as the third entry in the Deus Ex series and acts as a prequel to the original Deus Ex (2000). The gameplay blends first-person shooting, stealth, and role-playing mechanics, offering exploration and combat across interconnected city-based hubs, along with quests that provide experience points and let players customize the protagonist's skills using Praxis Kits. Dialogue between characters includes multiple response options, and choices made during conversations and key story moments can influence the outcome of certain events.

Storyline

On the night before revealing a new form of augmentation that would eliminate the need for Neuropozyne, Sarif Industries is struck by the Tyrants. Adam Jensen tries to rescue Megan Reed and her fellow researchers, but the Tyrant leader, Namir, severely injures him and seemingly kills Megan and the scientists. David Sarif employs his most advanced technology to save Adam, granting him superhuman capabilities. He also discovers that the augmentations are integrating with him naturally, without the need for Neuropozyne. Called back to handle an attack on a Sarif Industries warehouse by anti-augmentation extremists, Adam uncovers an augmented hacker trying to access the classified Typhoon weapon augmentation. When discovered, the hacker is compelled by their controller to commit suicide. After retrieving the dead hacker’s neural hub from his former Detroit police station, Frank Pritchard traces the hacking signal to an abandoned factory in Highland Park. Adam finds the Tyrants guarding a FEMA detention center, but they are withdrawing after the failed Sarif raid. He confronts and defeats a mercenary, Barrett, who tells him to go to Hengsha before killing himself with a grenade. Partnering with pilot Faridah Malik, Adam heads to Hengsha to locate the hacker, Arie van Bruggen, who is being pursued by private security firm Belltower Associates and hidden by local triad leader Tong Si Hung. Van Bruggen directs Adam to seek evidence inside Tai Yong Medical, the world’s largest augmentation technology producer and Sarif’s primary competitor. Infiltrating Tai Yong, Adam uncovers a recording of a call between Namir and Zhao Yun Ru, confirming that Megan and the other missing scientists are alive and that Eliza Cassan is somehow involved. Confronting Zhao in her penthouse, he learns she is allied with a powerful global organization before she activates security and forces him to flee. Traveling to the Picus corporate building in Montreal, Jensen tracks down Eliza, who is revealed to be an artificial intelligence designed to influence the media. Despite her programming, she begins to question her purpose and offers to assist Adam. After defeating Tyrant member Fedorova, Eliza provides him with footage leading him to Doctor Isaias Sandoval, an aide to William Taggart. Returning to Detroit, Sarif confesses to Adam that the Illuminati are behind the attacks. Adam infiltrates a Humanity Front rally and locates Sandoval. Sandoval admits his role in the kidnapping and gives Adam a lead to find the researchers. Back at Sarif HQ, Adam meets Hugh Darrow, who is working to combat global warming with the newly built Panchaea Facility in the Arctic. Adam and other augmented individuals also begin experiencing painful glitches, with authorities urging them to replace their biochips. Pritchard locates the tracking beacon of one of the scientists, bringing Adam back to Hengsha, where he and Malik are ambushed by Belltower. The beacon leads Adam to Tong Si Hung, who has just received the arm of a recently deceased scientist. Under Tong’s guidance, Adam manages to sneak into a stasis pod during a staged explosion, waking up a few days later in a hidden Singapore base. He finds the kidnapped scientists and learns that the biochip malfunctions were orchestrated to distribute the result of their research: a new biochip to control augmented humans. Adam and the scientists create a distraction, allowing him to infiltrate the facility’s secret bunker. There, he faces Namir one last time, then finds Megan. Confronted, Megan reveals she was kidnapped for her research—the genetic key to making all humans compatible with augmentations, which she discovered in Adam’s DNA—and to help Darrow thwart the Illuminati’s plans. Moments later, Darrow appears live on television and broadcasts a modified signal that triggers a fear-induced, violent frenzy in any augmented person with the new biochip. Jensen evacuates the scientists and takes control of an orbital flight module to reach Panchaea. He confronts Darrow, who reveals his desire for humanity to abandon the augmentation technology he created, believing it will destroy human identity. Adam sets out to disable Panchaea’s Hyron Project supercomputer and stop the broadcast; along the way, he encounters Taggart and Sarif, each urging him to support their agendas. At the core of Panchaea, Jensen first confronts Zhao Yun Ru when she attempts to hijack the signal for her own gain; then Eliza, who offers Jensen four options. He can either broadcast the full truth and distance humanity from augmentations; manipulate the broadcast to shift blame onto the Humanity Front and allow further augmentation development; issue a report blaming the incident on tainted Neuropozyne so Taggart’s group—and by extension the Illuminati—gain new support; or destroy Panchaea, leaving no one to "control the narrative." Depending on his choice and whether he has taken a pacifist or violent path throughout the game, his final narration changes. In a post-credits scene, Megan meets with Bob Page, the main antagonist of *Deus Ex*, to discuss her role in the "nanite virus chimera" and "D project": prior to this, Page instructs his associate Morgan Everett to search the Hyron Project for usable technology for the "Morpheus Initiative"—these are the precursors to the creation of the Denton clones, the engineered nanotechnological "Gray Death" virus, and the "Helios" artificial intelligence, key elements of the *Deus Ex* storyline.

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