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Deus Ex Human Revolution Walkthrough

Kurtis Seid
By Kurtis Seid, Game Guides Editor

Take the helm as Adam Jensen and uncover the conspiracy. Our Deus Ex Human Revolution Walkthrough provides a full walkthrough, sidequests, and info on augmentations.

Deus Ex Human Revolution Walkthrough

Deus Ex is a game about multiple choices and actions. If your play style has led to a drastically different outcome or unlocked a quest we missed, let us know by leaving a comment for @yarvem.

What's New:

  • September 1, 2011: Version 1.3 is ready. The Augmentations, Achievement, and Trophy sections are up.
  • August 30, 2011: Version 1.2 has arrived. The Walkthrough is complete.
  • August 23, 2011: Version 1.1 is the current update. The walkthrough now traverses through Montreal, and second tours of Detroit and Hengsha.
  • August 22, 2011: Version 1.0 of this Guide is up. The first version of the walkthrough is up covering the chaos in Detroit and Shanghai. We will be updating in the next few days, so check back later for more info.

Kurtis Seid
By Kurtis Seid, Game Guides Editor

Kurtis Seid is a sadomasochist for games. He’s clocked over 200 days in a Final Fantasy entry but isn’t sure if he’s actually a fan of the series. His ideal game would somehow involve the harshest elements of King’s Quest, Team Fortress, River City Ransom, Ogre Battle, and Dark Souls.

131 Comments

  • Dremun

    Posted Mar 24, 2012 5:41 pm GMT

    I'm a bit confused at the start of the Hengsha mission here, when I try to get in to the helo, I get a warning that any side quest's that are un finished will be canceled, but when I look in my log for finished & Unfinished quest's all i see is the main mission. This is after talking & confronting Sarif in his office, I did find the extra files on office PC from sarif and a few others from other NPC's about the chem propozyne? and to talk with a NPC about it as well as a message to check on another's office that nothing was missing or messed with. But the only NPC's still in the office are the cleaners & guards and most of the offices are open already. Anyone have any ideas. Oh and this my first play through. Thanks in advance for any assist here.

  • Riddik373

    Posted Feb 26, 2012 10:16 am GMT

    There's one more sidequest in Hengsha Part 2. To activate it you must talk to a doctor when you go to the LIMB clinic to change your chip.

  • gameguy182

    Posted Feb 19, 2012 10:04 pm GMT

    $hit, the only side quest I didn't do was "Acquaintances Forgotten"!

  • gameguy182

    Posted Feb 17, 2012 8:55 am GMT

    Man, I don't now if its because i'm only look at the still photos here or something, but to me, the ps3 version of this game looks better then the 360 version iv been playing.

  • MagnumPI

    Posted Jan 21, 2012 3:17 am GMT

    None of the bosses are hard if you choose weapons for tactics not for style. Also remember A.I is always stupid so they fall for anything and never learn. I chose to stock up on prox mines to begin with because I foresaw their potential. All you have to do is hug a wall and keep tossing the mines around the corners. First tactic I tried and since it worked so well I never attempted anything else. Flashbang to stun, gas to stun and damage and Explosive to damage. EMP are a waste on Bosses, but great for bots. I knocked out only few characters and only killed the bosses. It was so much easier just slip by everyone. I suppose you could go homocidal for fun but it doesn't seem necessary. Doing so just removes the ambieance and takes more time and inventory space for weapons. Played the game several times and haven't used most of the weapons beyond test firing, so I don't bother carrying anything other than the Tranq rifle, Tazer, revolver & shotgun.

  • maf17

    Posted Dec 26, 2011 6:10 pm GMT

    Yelena is easy. Typhoon her at close range when she uncloaks in front of you, that damages her a lot, then she goes down with one blast of heavy rifle.

  • ShangTsung17

    Posted Dec 1, 2011 12:42 am GMT

    will somebody please tell me why this game DOESN'T HAVE NEW GAME PLUS!!??? damnit, i miss codebreaker and gameshark!

  • hawkwind2012

    Posted Nov 12, 2011 8:05 am GMT

    It`s a Bummer that the guides are NOT PDF files anymore. Gamepressure.com has free PDF guides for download that are very Beautiful as well.I like PDF files because they work GREAT with a Kindle device.A nice hand-held Guide device for your Lap.

  • devak108

    Posted Oct 31, 2011 4:24 pm GMT

    I'm with you guys completely, really miss the PDF guides..

  • isamuelson

    Posted Oct 29, 2011 7:37 pm GMT

    I concur with other users. Why have the PDF guide stopped? It's nice to have the PDF guide itself. It's easier to find the info I need via a search, etc.

    Please bring them back.

  • sywell

    Posted Oct 25, 2011 2:03 pm GMT

    I have been a Total Access subscriber for 9 years and 5 months...and I agree completely with ngadd the previous poster!!! One of the major reasons I joined was to get the .pdf files of your walkthroughs. How about continuing that policy or at least give us a good explination as to why it has been ended. That way I can come to a reasoned decision when renewall time comes around again.

  • ngadd

    Posted Oct 23, 2011 2:35 am GMT

    Why isn't this guide (nor any other recent guide) downloadable any more ? Not even for longstanging Gamespot subscribers such as myself ?
    I've used loads of them over the years, and it's nice to have a printed copy to hand without having to go online all the time....

  • obilon

    Posted Oct 17, 2011 3:09 pm GMT

    to become invisible, you need to invest in the cloak augmentation, then the d-pad button is in the upper right .i believe it is the down button.this is all for ps3.

    Also Yalena was cake walk. just run around the room and use the heavy rifle to shoot the computers to shock her then burn her down. No fuss, no muss.

  • MR_HITMAN22

    Posted Oct 16, 2011 7:08 pm GMT

    how can i become invisible ?

  • Fursnake

    Posted Oct 14, 2011 10:44 pm GMT

    The Yelena fight was pretty easy, toss a frag mine right in front of you as soon as the fight starts and move quickly to the left or right. The frag mine will stun her and then shoot away with a long range weapon and toss a couple more frag mines at her location. Takes about 10-20 seconds to kill her this way after stunning her with the first frag mine.

  • logan_the_blah

    Posted Oct 9, 2011 6:20 am GMT

    I got lucky with Yelena. Ended up finding a glitch.
    First I hit her with the stun gun then ran up to her and did the 'kill' takedown. She of course counters this bringing you close to death but because she is supposed to be stunned the game got confused and stuck her in place.
    I had a lot of fun shooting her in the head with my 10mm pistol knowing she couldn't do anything about it. About 10 shots later she died and I was on my way

  • T4L0N

    Posted Oct 8, 2011 10:41 am GMT

    Need extra cash? Put a police officer to sleep through takedowns or tranquilizer rifle, then pick up the weapon, go to the weapon store and sell it, repeat process...

  • craneman3299

    Posted Oct 3, 2011 2:12 pm GMT

    Yelena was extremely easy. Just let her charge , then hit her with the stun gun and took out my handy dandy shot gun and let her have it. Did that 3 or 4 times and that was a wrap.

  • Ghetto_ninja

    Posted Oct 3, 2011 4:49 am GMT

    This is a pretty decent guide, however I think the jump ability is useless if you have heavy lifting as you can usually stack items to get to higher areas.

  • TigusVidiks

    Posted Sep 30, 2011 4:38 am GMT

    Hengsha 2 has at least 1 more sidequest, - Talion A.D.
    Given to you by a Dr. at the Limb Clinic, and consisting in finding the whereabouts of a former patient from the military that has gone awire, called Zelazny.

  • mostafa94

    Posted Sep 27, 2011 8:09 pm GMT

    @droned thanks

  • droned

    Posted Sep 27, 2011 2:12 pm GMT

    @mostafa94, No.

  • mostafa94

    Posted Sep 27, 2011 11:54 am GMT

    Hey does this mission have an alarm system, plz anyone reply fast

  • jonskilling

    Posted Sep 21, 2011 10:20 am GMT

    In case anyone wants an extra praxis, you can kill the barman downstairs in the hive and you'll find one on him when you search. I went on a mad killing spree and murdered everyone in the hive, went out the front door and the bouncer still wanted to charge me to get back in :-(

  • NeilCardiff

    Posted Sep 21, 2011 8:05 am GMT

    @rabksaj
    I didn't think I would like purely stealth based games so avoided Splinter Cell.
    But after playing as a stealth character on my second playthrough of DE:HR I thought I'd give the first SC a go and I liked it so much I've just bought the rest.

  • JustClient

    Posted Sep 18, 2011 10:48 am GMT

    I don't understand people complains about the fact that if you play "stealth" it is hard to kill bosses. Not really. If you play "stealth"... well continue doing it during the boss fight da...
    That is how I took out Barret:
    After cutscene throw flash grenade. It will give you time to get to the stash with shotgun and EMP grenade. After flash effect passes he doesn't know where you are and most likely will move to the corner where you stand in the beginning. After that I waited until he turned facing wall, through EMP granade and the red barrel which is in the centre of the room. Then he dropped 3 grandees under his own feet. Another EMP + 1-2 shotgun head shots and that was it.

    PS He never made a shot to my side...

  • rabksaj

    Posted Sep 16, 2011 1:51 pm GMT

    Nothing beats the good old stealth games of splinter cell. you have real cool gadgets such as noise distracter. sticky diversion camera.etc etc.

  • ocstew

    Posted Sep 12, 2011 11:55 pm GMT

    "Version 1.2 has arrived. The Walkthrough is complete."

    No it isn't, even weeks after the game was released.

  • blkgto

    Posted Sep 11, 2011 9:54 pm GMT

    that boss strat for yelena is quite possibly the dumbest design I have seen in a game in years. Even with augs. So stupid. Not very clever at all.

  • nas93

    Posted Sep 11, 2011 9:39 pm GMT

    The game guide is also missing one little side quest called Talion A.D. which you can get from a doctor by visiting the limb clinic in hengsha the second time.

  • PumpkinBoogie

    Posted Sep 10, 2011 6:22 am GMT

    @godiskingofall,

    Well I can't speak for later bosses yet, but you're right about how the first 2 pretty much went. I'm actually quite surprised how fast I took out that chick Yelena. She tagged me good the first couple of tries, but then I actually used the most ingenious weapon of all....I opened up a few cans of Typhoon whoop-ass on her w/ about dozen rounds or so off my Machine pistol (modded, of course) & that was a wrap. I actually just let her take herself out of hiding a then once she came running' up on me like a damn fool, I let have it, lol. Quick Tip: if you can go ahead and max out Typhoon before the fight do it--the more power the Typhoon blast the quicker you'll take her out.

    Damn people wasn't lying when they said her fight was actually breeze. I caught waaay more headbanging hell w/ Barrett....

  • felipefritschf

    Posted Sep 6, 2011 9:42 am GMT

    GOTY. No doubt.

    Damn it, in that room when the hostages have been held, I just sneaked pass it since I had no more tranquilizer rounds, which I wasted on patrols in the facility entrance since I though they could actually move to other areas and complicate my objective further, but no, they were. Well. Patrolling THAT area, which I easily passed trough that ventilation duct. I could use some takedowns, yeah, but I would be easily spotted and I was trying to finalize the game withouth being spotted, alarming systems, or killing anyone a single time. Lots of achievments, huh? Yeah. I'm already in China and so far my tasks are going well. But now that I've seen that I could have saved the hostages and I wouldn't see the final hostage, which I save suceesfly, crying.

  • Lupuz

    Posted Sep 6, 2011 2:17 am GMT

    "The Seaport is the point of no return. Not only are you about to say bye to China, this is one of the last chances to purchase items, weapons, and praxis."

    This is not true - there is a Limb-clinic in Panchea...for us Praxis addicts

  • advocacy

    Posted Sep 5, 2011 8:39 am GMT

    If you have the Grenade Launcher, all boss fights become easy.

    And save up for electrical resistance for the final boss fight!

  • 69GamerKid69

    Posted Sep 5, 2011 8:25 am GMT

    There are plenty of other stuff Gamespot is missing :\, hope you guys improve this!

  • godiskingofall

    Posted Sep 5, 2011 8:08 am GMT

    lol i find deus ex boss fights ridiculously easy except for the first one. what i did for Yelena was dodge as much of her first attack as possible. after her first attack she cloaked to go charge. all i did was turn on smart vision , find her shoot her twice with my revolver (with explosive round add on) when she had her back to me then just when she's about to charge at me , shoot the power source thing ( i have max dermal armour ) causing her to freeze , then shoot her 2 or 3 times in the head done.

  • unbornDevil

    Posted Sep 5, 2011 5:34 am GMT

    Just finished this game.. .. and really I liked it.. ..

  • itchyflop

    Posted Sep 5, 2011 2:45 am GMT

    @Nashnir i totally agree......fantastic game.

  • Nashnir

    Posted Sep 4, 2011 3:31 am GMT

    Eidos have set the stage for a great reboot for a great game

  • ocstew

    Posted Sep 4, 2011 2:10 am GMT

    No offence but your guide is missing alot of content that IGN has.

  • kava777

    Posted Sep 3, 2011 1:51 pm GMT

    Personally I found the whole stealth enhancer tree to be useless. There's no need to see how much noise you're making, because even when I deliberately tried to lure guards my way by making all sorts of racket, I had a hard time.
    Also I never upgraded the stealth cones augmentation, since the enemies are already almost blind and there really are no positions where you can't get around them. That might be because later in the game I used cloak to great success, even approaching foes head on to do a double K.O.
    And finally I disagree with Gamespot that the typhoon is useless to a stealth char, because only for a 3 praxis points total you can kill bosses with much more ease, making the life for a LTL char a lot easier.
    BTW I finished the whole game without killing anyone and had absolutely no problems on the highest difficulty without using the silent walk/run/land upgrades also.

  • elitejounin

    Posted Sep 3, 2011 12:23 pm GMT

    Really depends on how you want to play the game i guess. I personally found the Icarus Landing System to be handy since i was climbing lots of fire escapes and what nots in Detroit. Its just one of those things that you'd hate not to have in a pinch. i.e, when you're falling to your death after failing to make a ridiculously short jump. (for a cyborg those un-upgraded legs are even worse than normal human legs) Though i agree that hacking would probably be a better use of early points, it's also not absolutely essential since "main plot doors/ consoles" usually have a low security rating. (usually 1 or 2)

  • ITF-Cho

    Posted Sep 3, 2011 7:04 am GMT

    I'm always amazed at how much my choices seem to differ from the Gamespot staff. Icarus Landing System one of your first three choices? Seriously, guys? Convenient yes, but required? Certainly not up to Hengsha - where I currently am. And absolutely not something you should spend your first Praxis points on considering how important the hacking skill is, amongst others.

  • has3210

    Posted Sep 3, 2011 5:09 am GMT

    One of the best game I've played lately.

  • Gun_Fairy

    Posted Sep 3, 2011 4:57 am GMT

    I seem to have stuffed it. After I kill the 3 human computers I just get zapped and shot and bloody everything.

  • asdf1234qwer

    Posted Sep 2, 2011 6:11 pm GMT

    Whats the password to Lee's Apartment? I don't have level 3 hacking.

  • VeiNpl

    Posted Sep 2, 2011 10:05 am GMT

    http://13311tower.com/
    quite interesting ingame site :-)

  • Willdabeast49

    Posted Sep 2, 2011 8:33 am GMT

    Anyone else notice the first boss glitch?( thats as far as I got so far. there may be more;however, If you stay in the corner rooms just out of site Barrett cant go in the room. You can just stay out of site by standing on the crate and shoot him as he keeps turning around for an easy kill

  • Nashnir

    Posted Sep 2, 2011 7:19 am GMT

    Cloak and Dagger. After you leave the station you are supposed to meet the undercover Cop and have a chat with her. She will be amidst some of the prostitutes