You play Adam Jensen, an ex-SWAT specialist who's been handpicked to oversee the defensive needs of one of America's most experimental biotechnology firms. Your job is to safeguard company secrets, but when a black ops team breaks in and kills the very scientists you were hired to protect, every...
You play Adam Jensen, an ex-SWAT specialist who's been handpicked to oversee the defensive needs of one of America's most experimental biotechnology firms. Your job is to safeguard company secrets, but when a black ops team breaks in and kills the very scientists you were hired to protect, everything you thought you knew about your job changes.
Key Features:
A divided near-future: discover a time of great technological advancement, but also a time of chaos and conspiracy. Mechanical augmentations of the human body have divided society between those who can afford them, and those who can’t. Opposing forces conspire from the shadow to control the destiny of mankind: a human revolution is coming.
A perfect mix of action and role-play: the game uniquely combines action-packed close-quarters takedowns with intense shooting, offering a vast array of character augmentations and upgrades for the many weapons at your disposal. Unlock new abilities and increase your stealth, social, hacking or combat skills: the game rewards all styles of play and approaches. Determine how you want your character to evolve, based on how you want to play the game.
Choices and consequences: shoot your way through the enemies, sneak up behind them without being traced, hack systems to retrieve crucial information, or use your social skills to extract information from key characters – there are always choices, multiple approaches, multiple paths and multiple tools at your disposal. Choose your playing style and face the consequences of your actions: you decide how the story unfolds in his enhanced storyline featuring the full integration of "The Missing Link" and "Tongs Mission". Find more ways to defeat the new and improved Boss Fights, use the Newgame+ feature to replay the story with your previously acquired augmentations. Learn more about the game with the developers commentaries in ENGLISH ONLY and the original "Making of" video.
As of 2025, this game has not aged well, cover system shooting is boring, gunplay is bad, takedown has cutscenes animations idk why, story i cany say because i didnt finished it, gameplay is good though there are stealth, hacking or shooting options, however here shooting is a pain you will mostly die if you take that approach so consider guns useless basically.
The title of my review is more opinionated than I would like, but space constraints are a b**ch.
I do think this is the best _immersive sim_ of its generation, but I fully admit didn't played all there's is out there from that time.
I mean, e.g. Instead of combat you can use your stealth and hacking abilities to beat almost al bosses in the game. And I say almost 'cos I never tried with the first one, but I guessing you can do that too. If it is your play through, you may need to peep a guide of advice on how not to screw your character for a stealth run.
The story is quite good but it will be less impactful for those who played the first game. DE:HR's story borrows some ideas from the original game. That helps to keep the same feeling, but limits the times you'll be surprised. And on top of that, being a prequel, the decision you must take at the very end of the game feel less weighty. I mean JC Denton is unavoidable.
For those who plays the first Deus Ex, this game feels a lot like the first one with a little of streamlining applied. Just a little, it's no "Invisible War" (Deus ex 2 ). The streamlining materializes a comfort sometimes and as plain simplification of mechanics some others. Something has being lost at hand of please a wider audiences but the net result of it still is great.