Deus Ex: Human Revolution: Difference between revisions

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* [[Everybody Smokes]]: Alot of NPCs can be seen lighting up cigarettes. In the prologue video, the first thing we see {{spoiler|Bob Page}} doing is lighting a cigarette. Jensen smokes as well.

* [[Everybody Was Kung-Fu Fighting]]: One of the dual-target melee takedown animations has both of Jensen's targets trying to punch or roundhouse-kick him before he takes them out. This gets very amusing if they happened to be, for example, street prostitutes, bums or civilian office workers.

* [[Evil Brit]]: Belltower is at least nominally a British PMC that happens to be involved in a lot of shady activities. Although it is mentioned that it used to be more honorable.

* [[Executive Meddling]]: The reason why ''The Missing Link'' was DLC added later (rather than part of the core game, as originally intended) is because the game was rushed after being delayed repeatedly. This is the same explanation for the why the Tyrant boss battles are more "head-on" than series fans would've liked, since they were farmed out to third-party developers to save time during production.

* [[Experience Points]]: Used to collect Praxis points, which are used to activate augmentations.

* [[Expy]]: Adam Jensen has a lot in common with original protagonist JC Denton (i.e. [[Badass Longcoat]], [[Deadpan Snarker]], [[Guttural Growler]] voice, [[Cool Shades]], technological augmentation, etc.) It's even been pointed out by certain fans that "Adam Jensen" sounds like a phonetic inversion of "JC Denton."

** {{spoiler|Move onto [[Generation Xerox]] in the after credit ending which reveal that the Denton genetic code came from him. Paul inherits his [[Badass Beard]] while JC ~~inherist~~ the rest of his attributes (except the beard). They even work with Tong and a stalking AI too.}}

** {{spoiler|Move onto [[Generation Xerox]] in the after credit ending which reveal that the Denton genetic code came from him. Paul inherits his [[Badass Beard]] while JC inherits the rest of his attributes (except the beard). They even work with Tong and a stalking AI too.}}

** Several characters in the game have similar roles to those in the first game, such as:

*** Pritchard and Alex Jacobson serve as a [[Voice with an Internet Connection]] geek.

*** Barrett and Federova serve as [[Huge Guy, Tiny Girl]] bosses, like Gunther Hermann and Anna Navarre. Namir is this game's Walton Simons, a heavily augmented foe who sees a lot in common between himself and Adam.

*** Zhao Yun Ru who despite having different career than {{spoiler|[[Deus Ex|Maggie Chow]]}} has the same [[Dragon Lady]] attribute and even {{spoiler|has a boss fight in big room.}}

*** Eliza shares some common traits with {{spoiler|[[Deus Ex: Invisible War|NG resonance]] and [[Deus Ex|Daedalus AI]]}}

** Both Denton and Jensen {{spoiler|learn that they are not natural children of their assumed parents and both are results of advanced genetic engineering}}.

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* [[The Men in Black]]: A few of them show in the course of the game, especially in sidequests. Unlike the P-series from the original, these are more "traditional" human examples (G-Men types with common Anglo-Saxon names as aliases).

* [[More Than Mind Control]]: The Social Enhancer augmentation comes with a system that allows you to release pheremones to influence a person. However, just releasing scents isn't enough, you need to have paid attention to the kind of person you're dealing with and choose the right kind of verbal response to get the person to talk. "Alphas" have a high opinion of themselves and respond well to guys who play to that, "Betas" respond well to people acting friendly, and "Omegas" are guys with low self-esteem who need intimidation to crush their resistance and get them to fold. People who recognize that Jensen is using the aug can't be turned with it, though.

** Amusingly, you ''can'' use it on your boss who had it installed in you to begin with. There is also a sidequest where you can talk-duel with a woman who has the same augmentation. It's left probably deliberately ~~ambigious~~ which side is more in the right in that particular conflict.

** Amusingly, you ''can'' use it on your boss who had it installed in you to begin with. There is also a sidequest where you can talk-duel with a woman who has the same augmentation. It's left probably deliberately ambiguous which side is more in the right in that particular conflict.

* [[Motor Mouth]]: Faridah Malik. Not as rapid as other examples, but there's no particular explanation for it. Maybe she's just nervous all the time?

* [[R-Rated Opening|M-Rated Opening]]: Adam's violent beatdown in the beginning is much bloodier and more brutal than the rest of the game, and the enemies in the Sarif Manufacturing Plant swear a lot more (especially with the F-bomb). After that, the violence and language get toned down.

* [[Multiple Endings]]: Jensen uncovers the entire conspiracy, and must decide what he tells the world:

* [[Multiple Endings]]: Jensen uncovers the entire conspiracy, and must decide what he tells the world {{spoiler|though each ending contains some element or another that would ultimately lead to ''Deus Ex''}}:

** A: {{spoiler|The truth, which will villify augmentation technology, leading to a total ban. It would explain why no one seems to have augmentations in Deus Ex, save for the secret agents and a few well-off criminals, although this could also be explained by the fact that most of the common people you meet in the game are poor. Maybe also explains the absence of LIMB clinics.}}

** A: {{spoiler|The truth, which will villify augmentation technology, leading to a total ban. It would explain why no one seems to have augmentations in ''Deus Ex'', save for the secret agents and a few well-off criminals, although this could also be explained by the fact that most of the common people you meet in the game are poor. Maybe also explains the absence of LIMB clinics.}}

** B: {{spoiler|1=Lie on Taggart's behalf, which will villify corporations, leading to strict regulations. With Taggart's remarks about remodeling the UN, it would most likely lead to the formation of UNATCO. }}

** B: {{spoiler|Lie on Taggart's behalf, which will villify corporations, leading to strict regulations. With Taggart's remarks about remodeling the UN, it would most likely lead to the formation of UNATCO.}}

** C: {{spoiler|Lie on Sarif's behalf, which will villify special interest groups, totally deregulating augmentation possibly leading to the creation of the Grey Death as an alternate method of control. It could also possibly result in the development of nanotech augs in a short period of time and leading to the Dentons' creation.}}

** D: {{spoiler|Destroy [[The Very Definitely Final Dungeon]], along with [[Kill'Em All|himself and all three major conspirators]], leaving the public to decide the fate of augmentation technology for itself. Even though everyone dies, this ending still manages to be somewhat optimistic, as Adam notes that humanity has made the right choices in the past in regards to advancement, and has the opportunity to do so again, without the machinations of the people in Panchaea messing things up.}}

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* [[Not the Fall That Kills You]]: Adam actually takes ''quite a bit'' of damage from falling. Falling one story can take off more than half his health, falling two or three is a sure death. However, he can activate the Icarus Landing System which envelops him in an electromagnetic sphere that slows his descent. It looks cool, and can be used to knock out enemies he lands upon from above.

* [[Offscreen Teleportation]]: Tong seems to be capable of this. {{spoiler|After talking to him when he is disguised as a barkeeper he sends you to his office to meet him}}. Even when you use the most direct path to get there, he manages to already be there waiting for you.

* [[Oireland]]: Garvin Quinn in ''The Missing Link'' DLC comes across as blatantly Irish. {{spoiler|Though it's revealed to be a cover for his true identity as a Russian hacker working for the Juggernaut Collective.}}

* [[One Bullet Clips]]

* [[One Nation Under Copyright]]: America at the very least is gradually turning into this by 2027, especially with PMCs and corporations gaining more power.

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** Or, if you milked all of the possible XP out the tutorial stage, you can take the Double Takedowns augmentation, sprint up to Zeke, and use a takedown on him and Josie. If the takedown scene starts before Josie's death animation finishes, the game will overwrite her "dead" status with a "knocked out" status.

** After dispatching the final boss, {{spoiler|Jensen can broadcast the message of either Hugh Darrow, Bill Taggart or David Sarif, or he can [[Take a Third Option]] by activating Panchaea's self destruct sequence}}.

** The Missing Link DLC forces Jensen to choose between {{spoiler|diverting gas to one of two locations, saving either hundreds of innocents or a single scientist needed to bring down Belltower. However, an alternate route (which can only be reached with the high-jump and lifting aug, or creative use of exploding barrels and cardboard boxes) lets you destroy the gas dispersal machine itself, saving both.}}

** ''The Missing Link'' DLC forces Jensen to choose between {{spoiler|diverting gas to one of two locations, saving either hundreds of innocents or a single scientist needed to bring down Belltower. However, an alternate route (which can only be reached with the high-jump and lifting aug, or creative use of exploding barrels and cardboard boxes) lets you destroy the gas dispersal machine itself, saving both.}}

* [[Take Cover]]: A first for the series, and something of a necessity (''especially'' at the higher difficulties), though the switch from first to third-person perspective has elicited its share of negative fan responses. Besides the advantages a third-person camera gives, however, it's no better or worse than just crouching behind the same object.

** On stealth playthroughs the cover system is just as useful for remaining unseen, especially since you have to crouch to walk silently and the low angle makes it hard to see around.