Deus Ex - Human Revolution (New Set)

     Hey, this time I will be talking about ethical problem that arise in the game called Deus Ex - Human Revolution. In this post, I will give a complete summary of the game's story line, then in the next two entries, I will be talking about the ethical problem.

     "It is a time of great innovation and technological advancements" The game sets at 2027 mainly in Detroit. A man named Hugh Darrow has found a way to successful and effectively augment human's body and capacity by replacing them with mechanics. With this technology, human can jump higher, run faster, see things better, and do many more things that normal human body cannot do. This  has brought a huge impact to the entire world.

People with physical disabilities can live their normal lives again. The blind can now see, the cripple can now walk, and the mentally ill people can now think and talk normally. Taking this core technology of augmentation, cooperation quickly developed and improved this technology for further and better use in both medical and military. However, for every gifts, there are always a price. Hugh Darrow's augmentation technology requires the augmented to take the medication called "Neuropozyne" for the rest of their lives, because human body will reject the augments and lead to rejection. This has risen a huge amount of black market trade of drugs and human kidnapping for experiment. Neuropozyne was called the most dangerous and addictive drug ever existed. This technology has also risen the black market trade of illegal augmentations and upgrades. Because of these problems, a groups of people have begun to go against the augmentations.

     Story begins in 2027. You take the role of a man named Adam Jansen, whom is the head security of one of the leading cooperation on human augmentation, Sarif Industries. In the beginning of the game, Adam's girlfriend, Megan Reed, one of the leading scientists on human augmentation of Sarif Industries, has found a way to fix Hugh Darrow's augmentation problem of taking neuropozyne. She has found a way to make augmentation completely drug free and "pure". At the beginning, Adam, Megan, and Sarif Industries' founder and CEO, David Sarif, are suppose to be talking about the conference about announcing this new technology. However, story starts when a group of anonymous mercenaries break into the compound, capture Megan and all of her team, and almost kill Adam in the process. Horribly injure and cripple, Adam is put on augmentations by the order of Sarif to save his life. Adam's 90% body is replace with augmentations to save his life, however, with this secret technology, Adam's body completely accept all of his augmentations, which result in him does not have to take neuropozyne. The player, then, begins the search for Megan and attempt the revenge on those mercenaries. After long search and travel, the player finds out that the people behind the attack are the Illuminati. For this mission, they operate mainly through one of the most famous political group that go against augmentations, the Humanity Front's leader, William Taggart and, same as Sarif Industry, one of the leading cooperation on human augmentations, Tai Young Medical's leader, Zhou Yun Ru.

After Adam rescue Megan and the rest of her team, Hugh Darrow is broadcasting his proposal to the world. He activates a machine that put all the augmented into hallucination and kill everyone in their paths. Adam, then, fly to Panchea to confront Hugh Darrow. After Adam gets to Darrow, he, then, explain that he sees his discovery as another means to control mankind and that it is no longer the "hope" of mankind. He continue to explain that the Illuminati's real plan is to use an advance network of quantum computers called the Hydras to put all the augmented under full control, but Darrow intends to use it to show to the world that augmentation is truly terrifying; he also have his recordings inside the Hydras that will broadcast to the world of how dangerous augmentation is. Knowing this, Adam fights his way down the Panchea to find and deactivate the Hydras, which along the way, he hears transmissions from both David Sarif and Wiliam Taggart; they were attending the broadcast of Hugh Darrow in Panchea, but after the breakthrough of the augmented, they were forced into hiding inside Panchea. After Adam reaches both of them and tell them of what happens, they will convince Adam to, instead of throwing away Hugh Darrow's broadcast, use it in favor of or against human augmentation respectively. Once Adam reaches Hydras, he confronts Zhou, whom intend to take back control of Hydras for the Illuminati.

    After Adam defeats Zhou and shutdown Hydras, he or the player will be faced with choices (like in Fallout). Adam will have to choose whether to broadcast in favors of the augmentations and blame the hallucinations on the Humanity Front and the Illuminati (Sarif side), against human augmentations and blame the hallucinations on the use of neuropozyne and augmentations (Taggart side), or against human augmentations and blame the hallucinations on both the Illuminati and augmentations (Darrow side). There is one more additional option for Adam. He can choose not to leave powers and answers to any individual's hand, including himself, destroy all the broadcasts and the Panchea, thus killing everyone inside. Doing this, mankind will not know what really happen and will move forward on their own without the leading of Humanity Front or Sarif or Darrow's idea.

     Well, that is the story in summary. The next two posts I will talk about who is the right one, groups people who think that human augmentations is bad or the cooperation that think human augmentation is good.

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Bibliography

http://deusex.wikia.com/wiki/Deus_Ex:_Human_Revolution