Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director’s Cut

This is my all-time favorite game. Great characters, story, setting, atmosphere, music and gameplay. Unfortunately the Director's Cut Edition has the DLC "The Missing Link" integrated into its Main Story. Therefore it is not possible to skip the DLC or play it separately. The Main Story feels too long if you always have to play through the DLC. The DLC is fantastic but really should be playable separately. I really hope that GOG finds a way to get the original version (i.e. non Director's Cut version, like it was originally released on Steam). P.S. This isn't such issue anymore thanks to GOG Galaxy 2.0. I'll just keep playing my original Steam copy of the game. However it would be smart to have DRM-free version available in case of the apocalypse.

I'd really like to give this 5 stars but the PC version of the game doesn't work well on high resolution screens. Because the game is designed for console first and ported over, the UI is designed for 720p, meaning anything above that makes smaller UI. This means smaller mini-map (a mini-mini-map if you will) smaller hotbar, smaller health bar and worst of all a smaller weapon scope on things like the sniper rifle. At 4K, which this game could probably be easily run at on a lot of systems by now, the game is almost unplayable because of this.

After Warren Specter made the flawless Deus Ex which born the fantastic Deus Ex franchise and the terrible Deus Ex 2 (made by Warren Specter also) which had been believed killed the Deus Ex series, the series came back and what a return it was! No, the first Deus Ex was not beaten but damn, Human Revolution was just a miracle looking at the time when the game came out. I clearly remember that at that time nobody expected anything from this game. Deus Ex: Human Revolution would have been considered another game by Square Enix that would have been forgotten a few weeks after the release, but what it came out was almost a perfectly-crafted mix of first person shooter, RPG and adventure set in an cyberpunk world. A Deus Ex game as it should be! The dense dystopian atmopshere full of emptiness and sorrow. No, there is not much people in the streets. People are getting separated more and more. Rather than being outside, they hide in their appartments and spend their time there. Fantastic soundtrack by Michael McMann, which has now even a cult status. Deus Ex: Human Revolution's OST set a new standard for a cyberpunk music. The gameplay is fantastic, though maybe a bit simplified compared to the first Deus Ex but still amazing. Skills have sense and you can choose whether you want to use an action approach or a more stealthy one. The level design is fantastic. Sarif Industries, Hengsha (this one is a total gem!), Detroid or Rifleman Bank Station are beautifully and smartly designed. Above all of this is the story. It is not a typical sci-fi cliché. Your "official" goal might be to find terrorists who attacked Sarif Industries, but Adam Jensen's real goal is to find his love Megan which has disappeared after the attack. It is basically a love story which is a pretty unusual thing for an action game. What I miss from the Director's Cut version is the nice golden filter, which Square Enix removed from the original game. There's really no reason for this. 9/10

I really like this game. It stands on its own merit and there just aren't enough 0451 games out there. It's in the same family as System Shock, Bioshock, Prey (2017), and of course the older Deus Ex games. It has an added element of putting an emphasis on stealth, but does a good job of making stealth optional if you want to play it with more open aggression. No game is ever perfect, but this game does things at an A-level at all phases. Interesting level design, visuals, music, voice acting, and gameplay that keeps you engaged throughout.