Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director’s Cut

It happened that Director’s Cut edition is stuttering a lot no matter that PC you have, especially in the city areas. Overall the game is great, you can make decisions on how you wish to traverse the environment and complete your objective, game is huge. Intriguing story, ethical conundrum and conspiracy. Great characters and top tier music.

You can't compare this to the first Deus Ex title. It's really a completely different thing altogether. The first encourages you to explore, and gives you new parts of the world to go back to when you have new abilities -- this one is more focused on FPS elements instead of environment exploration. The parts where it fails is where the first succeeded, and vice versa. The color palette will make you sick after a while. I'm trying to force myself to beat this before I play the next one in the series, but every time I come back to it I get tired pretty quick. Whereas with the first, I tend to get sucked back in and can't put it down again.

I was extremely dubious when I saw the trailers for this. The original Deus Ex was something special, and ever since the Star Wars prequels I've had a chronic lack of trust for people who go back and revisit old classic worlds in entertainment. It looks like a few people would agree that my prejudice was unwarranted, because after I gave the game a belated playthrough I was convinced to the contrary. This game felt like it was developed around the question "what would Deus Ex 1 be if we made it from scratch today?" The gameplay is very satisfying and retains a lot of the original Deus Ex feel while refreshing the look and some of the things the player character (Adam, rather than J.C. :) can do. A few people have griped about the game switching to third-person when wall-hugging. I thought that would annoy me but I actually prefer it. Line of sight seems to be critical in stealth play, so seeing whether Adam's shoulder or foot is poking around an edge in view of an enemy is important. On the topic of hidden telemetry in this edition, I can't comment. I played the game on Steam (via Proton) and it worked flawlessly with one exception. Every time I exit, the game hangs either for a long time or indefinitely, so either it sits in the background "trying" to close or I have to terminate the process manually. That's my only gripe. This is classic Deus Ex storytelling and gameplay with an original story and a far more sophisticated visual engine. If you liked the original, you'll likely get a kick out of this one too.

I just played this game for 8 hours straight. I wasn't sold on this game before, but I can definitely see why this title is such a classic. Please note that the Director's Cut version does actually have a couple of issues with it as other have mentioned, such as in-built telemetry/tracking and performance, but there are easy workarounds for most of them. (Check PCGamingWiki for more.) Thanks to the Gold Filter Restoration mod, I was also able to play the game with its iconic "gold filter" like in the original version. Despite its flaws, this is a ton of fun and this version also includes revamped boss fights which were a bit of a letdown before. Now, I haven't ever really played the original release of Deus Ex: Human Revolution or the first Deus Ex, so I can't really say much about it. However, my own experience of this game has been a ton of fun and I recommend it to anyone who is a fan of this genre.

I love cRPG games. I love stealth games. I love dystopian science fiction. I love games with story that makes you like "I just NEED to unravel all these things". Before playing Deus Ex: Human Revolution I barely heard of the Deux Ex series. After DX:HR I became a great fan of it. Deus Ex: Human Revolution is on my top 5 list of best games I ever played.