A few days ago, the E3 trailer for Deus Ex: Human Rev­o­lu­tion made it into the web. The third install­ment actu­ally is a pre­quel to the orig­i­nal Deus Ex pub­lished in the year 2000. In March the first trailer was shown to the pub­lic. The E3 trailer expands on the for­mer and drops a few hints of the pos­si­ble plot. Before I start ram­bling, do your­self a favor and enjoy the trailer:

Deus Ex took place in 2052, Deux Ex: Human Rev­o­lu­tion takes you into the year 2027. Since Human Rev­o­lu­tion is a pre­quel the aug­men­ta­tions are mechan­i­cal rather than fea­tur­ing nan­otech like the first two games did. The aug­men­ta­tions will be divided into four types: Com­bat, Social, Stealth, Tech­nol­ogy. Thank­fully, the devel­op­ers also got rid of the uni­fied ammu­ni­tion intro­duced with Deus Ex: Invis­i­ble War. The game deals with the ethics of tran­shu­man­ism and meta-humans. The greek myth of Daedalus and Icarus in the main character’s  dreams serves as an alle­gory to this theme. As was the case in pre­vi­ous titles con­spir­acy the­o­ries and pow­er­ful cor­po­ra­tions are very prominent.

The main char­ac­ter, Adam Jensen, is a secu­rity chief with a com­pany that spe­cial­izes in bio­me­chan­i­cal aug­men­ta­tions. Once he wit­nesses an attack on his com­pany the con­spir­acy – and the game – begins. Jensen needs to find out who just killed all the sci­en­tists and why they did it. You can surely guess the rest: ques­tions lead to other ques­tions and soon Jensen has to save the cheer­leader world.

There’s only one thing really bug­ging me. Once again, the game will hit dif­fer­ent plat­forms (PC, PS3, Xbox 360). I seri­ously hope it won’t suf­fer the same fate as Invis­i­ble War did. As a con­se­quence of console-oriented devel­op­ment the lev­els were smaller and the game was lack­ing detail. There’s noth­ing else to do but wait and hope. The game cur­rently has a ten­ta­tive release date of March 2011.