Going in I had heard rumour that there was an uncomfortable, anachronistic moment in Deus Ex: Human Revolution . I was vague on the details, but had a faint recollection that a number of players had expressed discomfort with some minor aspect of the game. I even remembered hearing that this mysterious element was considered by many to be a blemish on the otherwise elegantly realised vision of the future that developers Eidos Montreal had sculpted.
Over a year after everyone else had watched the final credits roll, I finally set aside to sink into the game myself. I move around that wonderfully sombre, burnished gold space, stunned by the whole game’s noir-inflected cyberpunk aesthetic, thrilled utterly with the rich potential of the narrative and game-play that stretched out before me. But still, nagging at the back of my mind like some glitch in the Matrix, I wonder: what on earth had people been complaining about? Because whatever it is, I’m not seeing it .
Is it Jensen’s voice?
