Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut
Intense overall intensityWhat's in it
Strong profanity including f-words occurs in dialogue between characters.
Realistic firearm and melee combat against human enemies with blood; lethal cybernetic-blade takedowns are shown, but the player can also choose non-lethal knockouts.
Bars serve alcohol the player can drink, and Neuropozyne (an anti-rejection drug for augmentations) plus a black-market drug subplot are part of the story.
Story centers on involuntary human experimentation, corporate conspiracy, mind control, and losing one's humanity to machine augmentation.
The player trespasses, hacks secured systems, steals, and kills as core stealth-or-combat gameplay.
Coercive interrogations are witnessed and the plot describes people being surgically enslaved into a machine.
Sex workers and a brothel (the Hung Hua Hotel) are visibly depicted in the world, though the player cannot solicit them.
Cinematic augmentation-surgery scenes show the protagonist's limbs being severed and replaced with cybernetics.
Revealing outfits on nightclub patrons and dancers in the city hub bars.
Suggestive adult-club settings and mild romantic subtext between characters; nothing explicit shown.
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What it is
Deus Ex: Human Revolution is a cyberpunk action role-playing game set in 2027, where you play Adam Jensen, a security officer rebuilt with mechanical body augmentations after a deadly attack on his employer. You investigate a corporate conspiracy across city hubs, choosing between shooting your way through, sneaking past guards, hacking, and talking your way out of confrontations. Combat is realistic and can be lethal (gunfire, blood, bladed takedowns) or non-lethal by choice. The world includes bars with alcohol, a drug subplot, an adult nightclub, a brothel tied to a side quest, and strong language. Themes run dark, dealing with human experimentation, conspiracy, and people losing their minds to their implants. It is a single-player game with no online interaction or purchases.
How it's framed
The game frames augmentation, violence, and its conspiracy as moral gray areas, repeatedly letting the player choose lethal or non-lethal, aggressive or diplomatic paths and having characters react to those choices. It treats transhumanism as a genuine ethical debate rather than endorsing a side, and it presents crime and killing as consequential tools rather than glorified rewards.
Details
- Developer
- Eidos Montreal
- Publisher
- Eidos Interactive Corp.
- Released
- Oct 25, 2013
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