Players take the role of Adam Jensen , a security consultant employed by Sarif Industries to protect a research lab in Detroit. At the start of the game, Adam Jensen is in Sarif Industries' Detroit headquarters taking care of security preparations for the company's forthcoming presence at a National Science Board hearing to discuss the need for augmentation technology regulation. Adam's ex-girlfriend Megan Reed will take the opportunity to announce a revolutionary discovery made by her and her team that will allow people to augment themselves without having to use anti-rejection drugs, though she is evasive as to the source of her discovery.
During a meeting between Adam and Sarif Industries' CEO David Sarif , the company is suddenly attacked by a group of heavily armed soldiers apparently led by three heavily augmented mercenaries , who use a security plan Jensen created himself.
When Adam tries to rescue Megan, he is caught by the mercenary leader Jaron Namir , who brutally beats Adam and shoots him in the head, thinking that he has killed Adam. The attackers make sure to burn all of the victims in order to make them unrecognizable, leaving Megan Reed and her team considered dead.
Adam however survives the attack by undergoing extensive augmentation, which is provided by Sarif. For six months, Adam is unable to work and spends his time recovering from the attack.
Adam's recovery is ended early when he is called back to action by Sarif who needs him to intervene in a hostage crisis in Sarif's Milwaukee Junction manufacturing plant, which was taken over by the radical anti-augmentation terrorist group Purity First. Sarif suspects the terrorists might actually be after the Typhoon Explosive System , an experimental military augmentation that had just been scheduled for production at the plant. Sarif's suspicions are confirmed when Adam encounters an augmented hacker in a Purity First uniform trying to steal the Typhoon.
Upon being found, the hacker shoots himself in the head while pleading for help. Adam later confronts the Purity First leader Zeke Sanders , who denies any knowledge about the augmented hacker, leading Adam to believe that Purity First is being manipulated by a third party. After the hostage crisis is resolved, Sarif tells Adam that the official police reports don't mention any augmentation on the hacker, indicating a cover-up. Sarif sends Adam to the Detroit Police Department morgue to retrieve the hacker's neural hub.
Sarif Industries' cyber-security head Francis Pritchard analyses the hub and discovers that the hacker was a literal "human proxy" and thus was being controlled by someone else. Pritchard traces the source of the control signal to an abandoned factory complex on the outskirts of Detroit. While there he spots the augmented mercenaries involved in the Sarif attack.
Adam descends into the facility and finds a massive underground secret internment camp run by FEMA. Deep inside the facility, Adam is spotted by and fights Lawrence Barrett , one of the augmented mercenaries.
Barrett gives Adam an address in Hengsha Island in China before trying to kill himself and Adam by setting off his frag grenades, which Adam escapes from. Adam travels to Hengsha only to find the building mentioned by Barrett under lockdown by Belltower Associates , a PMC and the de facto police in Hengsha. Adam infiltrates the building and discovers that this was the residence of the hacker controlling the proxy, Arie van Bruggen aka " Windmill ".
By investigating the apartment, Adam learns that Windmill has gone into hiding with the help of another client, Triad crime boss Tong Si Hung. Zhao has ordered Belltower to hunt down Windmill after the Milwaukee incident. However, Windmill had left a compromising recording of Zhao inside the Tai Yong Medical headquarters as an "insurance policy" and enlists Adam to retrieve it.
Adam infiltrates the Tai Yong Medical headquarters and watches the recording. In it, Zhao reveals that the scientists in Megan Reed's team were kidnapped with their tracking implants disabled, not killed.
She also reveals that Eliza Cassan , the celebrity news anchor of leading media conglomerate Picus TV is also involved. Adam makes his way to the building's penthouse to confront Zhao but she manages to escape him. He speaks to what appears to be Eliza, but turns out to be a hologram of her. Soldiers storm the building prompting Adam to make his way to the source of the hologram's signal in a secret sub-basement.
There, he discovers that Eliza is actually an advanced Artificial Intelligence , designed to manipulate public's perception through the media but has also gained some degree of self-awareness. Their meeting is interrupted by another of the augmented mercenaries, Yelena Fedorova. After Adam defeats Fedorova, Eliza informs Adam that the scientists' tracking implants were removed by Doctor Isaias Sandoval , the aide of William Taggart , leader of the peaceful anti-augmentation organization Humanity Front.
Adam returns to Detroit where Taggart is scheduled to give a speech. Sarif informs Adam that everything that has happened so far is consistent with the actions of the Illuminati. Adam heads to Sandoval's apartment where he finds a secret bunker filled with Purity First members. Adam confronts Sandoval who reveals that he couldn't remove the tracking implants and thus simply changed their frequency to one where receivers wouldn't know where to look.
Sandoval's fate is determined by the actions of Adam. Pritchard manages to track one of the implants, belonging to Sarif scientist Vasili Sevchenko , to Hengsha. Nearing his arrival to the island, however, Adam's VTOL aircraft is shot down by Belltower leading to a massive ambush which may result in the death of the craft's pilot, Faridah Malik. Adam discovers that augmentation users all over the world are being advised to have their biochips replaced due to a defect.
He can choose whether he gets the new chip. Adam tracks the signal to the hideout of the Harvesters, a gang known for kidnapping augmented people and extracting their augmentations. Adam finds Tong Si Hung wearing Sevchenko's arm, who states that Sevchenko's corpse was sold to the gang by Belltower.
Not having any love for Belltower himself, Tong directs Adam to one of Belltower's ships and gives him a bomb to plant as a distraction. When Adam detonates the bomb he notices that the distraction also allowed Tong's son to escape Hengsha.
Adam then stows away in a high-tech hibernation pod. When Adam wakes up, he finds that he is currently in the Omega Ranch , a biotech research complex in Singapore. Adam infiltrates the facility and contacts three Sarif scientists in order to stage a distraction allowing him to access the secure part of the complex where Megan is held. Adam also uploads a virus designed by Sevchenko to disable the facility's security to allow the scientists to escape.
Once Adam makes his way to the secure sector, he encounters Zhao again. Adam confronts her with knowledge gained from the scientists that the Illuminati are creating a " Killswitch " for all augmented people worldwide so they won't challenge their rule. Zhao acknowledges this and uses a remote control to try to disable Adam's augmentations if she is successful depends on whether the player decided to have Adam get the new biochip or not. Regardless of the result, Zhao dispatches Namir to kill Adam.
After defeating Namir, Adam finds Megan who reveals that the facility is owned by Hugh Darrow , the billionaire Nobel Prize winner "father" of augmentation technology. Darrow is currently involved with Panchaea , a massive geoengineering facility in the Arctic Ocean designed to stop global warming via iron seeding.
She also reveals that the basis of her revolutionary discovery is Adam's DNA, which she has gathered without his consent. At that moment, while giving a press conference from Panchaea, Darrow activates a signal that causes everyone who got the biochip upgrade to turn violently insane if Adam got the upgrade, Megan uses a device to isolate him from the signal.
Adam travels to Panchaea to confront Darrow. There, Darrow explains that he invented the technology to help the less fortunate but it has since become just another means for the powerful to control said less fortunate especially given the Illuminati's plans to use it as a killswitch for mankind as well as potentially causing humanity to lose its moral center.
Darrow used the insanity inducing signal as an attempt to get the technology permanently banned. Regardless of whether Adam can convince Darrow of the error of his ways or not, he makes his way to the core of the facility to shut down the signal.
On the way, he encounters Sarif and Taggart who had both been invited to the conference who each propose a course of action for Adam. At the core of the facility Adam once again encounters Zhao who merges with the Hyron Project , a huge bioelectronic quantum supercomputer. After destroying the Project and killing Zhao, Adam makes his way to the broadcast center where he is contacted by Eliza.
Eliza explains to him the various options he can take: he can broadcast Darrow's confession about augmentation and the Illuminati thus ensuring that augmentation is permanently banned, he can blame the Humanity Front for the attack thus ensuring that augmentation is developed further Sarif's proposa l , he can blame the event on tainted augmentation anti-rejection drugs thus ensuring tight regulation on augmentations Taggart's proposal or he can set the entire facility to self destruct, killing everyone present and letting humanity decide for itself.
Depending on various moral factors over the course of the game, the dialogue over the ending can be slightly different, but most of the events remain the same. Although the choice is left to the player, and no concrete information has been given about which one is canonical, both the post-credits scene, and the events of later games in the series imply that Adam chose to manipulate Panchaea's pressure controls, effectively destroying the installation with the weight of the surrounding ocean.
When Adam makes his choice, the game ends. Megan Reed is revealed to be working for Page on a nanite -virus chimera. It's also vaguely implied by the trophy unlocked by viewing the scene " The D Project " that Adam's DNA will be used as the basis for the creation of the Denton brothers. Human Revolution deals with the ethics of transhumanism, and carries an overarching message of humanity's reach exceeding its grasp.
The pace of technological development is reflected visually by a Renaissance theme. Characters who support the advances of human augmentation dress themselves and decorate their homes in reinterpreted late-mediaeval Italian style, and the game as a whole has a sepia-tinted color palette reminiscent of historic manuscripts.
In contrast, characters who oppose augmentation wear clothing that is more or less current-day. Conspiracy theories and immensely powerful corporations also feature strongly, as in Deus Ex , with the Illuminati playing a key role in the story. Also, a secondary theme of human liberty and political secessionism underplays the game, setting up the events that led to the world of the first Deus Ex.
Parts of the game take place during the day, unlike in Deus Ex , but most locations are nevertheless brooding and dark. Subsequently, Adam became chief of security for Sarif Industries , assigned to protect scientists on the verge of cutting edge breakthroughs.
During the preparations for augmentation hearing, an attack by a black ops team leaves Adam critically injured and his charges kidnapped. Adam undergoes mechanical augmentation to save his life, and begins a relentless search for the truth behind the attack.
He is known for his forward, honest demeanor, though he has no aversion to keeping secrets when necessary. Reed is considered a pioneer in the field of human enhancement technologies. Her dedication to her research, and her aloof demeanor, has made it difficult for her to cultivate lasting interpersonal relationships.
During the attack on Sarif she was presumed dead. Faridah Malik - Private pilot of Sarif Industries, she transports Jensen into various missions and locations. It is revealed later that she once lived in Hengsha and that her best friend there was murdered. She then asks Jensen to help her bring the killer to justice.
Francis "Frank" Pritchard - Head of Sarif Industries cyber-security, Frank has a sour relationship with Jensen, however, he provides Jensen with logistical support during his missions.
A merciless combatant, yet also a devoted husband and father, he has had numerous cybernetic enhancements to compensate for the decline associated with advanced age. Lawrence Barrett - A former marine turned mercenary, Barrett is a member of the Tyrants. Like Namir, he has augmented his already impressive physique with numerous cybernetic upgrades. He lives for the moment when he's beaten his enemy into submission, and Adam Jensen is his next target.
Yelena Fedorova - A statuesque and silent athletic woman of Russian descent, Yelena is one of Tyrant's most elite assassins. Unlike Barrett, she favors stealth over brute force.
Being one of few women in a male-dominated profession has strongly influenced her worldview, making her cautious of everything around her. Eliza Cassan - The celebrity-like newsreader for the Picus TV network, she is revealed later to be an AI programmed to control and censor information for the benefit of the Illuminati.
However, she shows interest in Jensen and his activities and supports him in uncovering the conspiracy. Deus Ex: Human Revolution comes out next week, and it's incredibly, ridiculously good. Unfortunately, Square Enix have given retailers a confusing array of different versions of the game that come with different amounts of bonus content.
To add to the confusion, Valve just released a huge batch of Deus Ex themed Team Fortress 2 items that you get for pre-ordering the game on Steam. And the 'Augmented Edition' means different things depending on where you buy it.
I hate this stuff. Apart from the confusion, it's annoying to be made to feel like you're not getting the complete experience when you just buy the game itself. But they've done it, so we might as well sort through the mess and figure out where you get the best deal. Be aware that we can only go by what retailers say they'll give you - we can't guarantee they're getting their own listings right. In most cases, retailers don't specify whether their offers will still be available after launch.
Since the official Deus Ex site lists all the in-game content as pre-order bonuses, we're assuming it won't be. Here's where we've seen it cheapest. We haven't been given any of it yet, so I can't tell you how good the mission is or whether any of these extras are overpowered. But obviously it's annoying to feel you're missing out on content unless you get this.
There's another set of bonus content called the Tactical Enhancement pack, but since it doesn't include the extra mission and is mutually exclusive with this one, it's probably not a good idea. In both territories, there's an Augmented Edition of the game - a sort of collector's box set.
In the Europe, it comes with all the bonus in-game content it's possible to get - as it damn well should. But in the US and on Steam, bizarrely, it doesn't come with any of the in-game content. You can only get some of it by pre-ordering from certain retailers like GameStop.
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