What the narrative succeeds in doing is making the player stay interested in its events, and the wild ride it depicts remains gripping until the conclusion. Individual moments along the way make it difficult to suspend the player’s disbelief, but they’re no worse than many well-regarded action movies in which the suspicions of an entire city are somehow not roused when copious gunfire erupts. Adam Jensen is an effective lead, and the multitude of characters with whom he interacts is at the very least entertaining to behold. While its depiction of 2027 is already suspect in certain regards, notably in the way that holographic newspapers are posited to become the preferred means of learning about world events, Human Revolution does a fine job in most respects of crafting an interesting narrative. Plenty of other issues pop up, but piecing this trail together is the thread linking them. The company’s eponymous leader decides to augment Adam rather than let him die, and six months later unraveling exactly what took place during that incursion becomes Jensen’s motivation. Ex-police officer Adam Jensen figures into this by being the head of security at Sarif Industries, and while fighting against an attack by mysterious gunmen he is shot down. Protests against people being augmented with mechanical parts are ramping up worldwide, the global corporate leader in augmentation technology is assaulted by a group of effective and efficient killers, mysterious projects are being constructed in remote parts of the globe, and rioters are prone to shaking things up. Human Revolution may not quite recapture the glory of the original game, but it comes pretty close in many instances.Ģ027 features a number of correlated events. It succeeded well enough that more Deus Ex games are now an expected thing, and the release of a Director’s Cut has helped Human Revolution fix a few of the problems that afflicted its original launch. The franchise lay dormant for years, until Deus Ex: Human Revolution came along to attempt a revival. Deus Ex: Invisible War was many things, but a triumphant continuation of the first Deus Ex was not one of them.
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