Deus Ex official date, pre-order details

By Robert Purchese Published 9 March, 2011

Augment in August.

Square Enix has confirmed the UK release date of Deus Ex: Human Revolution as 26th August, as whistle-blowing shops predicted it would yesterday.

You can pre-order either a Standard Edition of the game to receive a free Explosive Mission Pack. This features a new mission and cameo from an old Deus Ex character, plus Automatic Uncloaking Device, M-28 Utility Remote-Detonated Exposive Device (UR-DED, cringe) and the Linebacker G-87 grenade launcher.

Or you can pre-order a "highly collectable and strictly limited" Augmented Edition of Deus Ex: Human Revolution (RRP £59.99). What's so special about that? In-game credits, 10,000 of them, plus a Huntsman Silverback Double-Barrel Shotgun, SERSR Longsword Whisperhead silenced sniper rifle, the Explosive Mission Pack and the other weapons Standard pre-orders get.

There's more: a bonus DVD with 44-minute Making Of documentary, soundtrack, motion-comic, video, storyboard and 40-page art book (you'll get through that quickly - it's all pictures).

Picture of Robert.

About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds. @Clert on Twitter.

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Comments (16) Latest comment 1 year ago

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  • geeza2020 #1 1 year ago

    missions as pre-order bonuses?

    Careful now!
    Down with this sort of thing!

  • SilentTristero #2 1 year ago

    Sounds like a fairly poor Special Edition, especially at the upper end of the price range. Would have hoped for something vaguely more interesting (and physically tangible) to be in that package.

  • s3kShUn8 #3 1 year ago

    I hate all of this "Give us even more money and you'll get content that should have been on the disk anyway!" nonsense. Shafters. Although, because its Deus Ex, I'll cave in.
    Edited by s3kShUn8 at 09/03/11 @ 17:02

  • FWB #4 1 year ago

    First SE of any game I'm going to buy.

  • metalangel #5 1 year ago

    That's right, folks, you have to pay extra to get the 'proper' game.

  • fongy #6 1 year ago

    Like most here - very rare I would pre-order a game... but this is a must... previews look STUNNING...
    GOTY for me I reckon...

  • SilentTristero #7 1 year ago

    I will absolutely be pre-ordering, and I love CE's, but...Not paying an extra £35 for a DVD and an art book; the DLC doesn't even factor in for me.

  • Masaroth #8 1 year ago

    The annoying thing with the augmented edition is that its only 10$ extra for americans rather than the £20 for us, if this was say 45-50 quid id preorder it right now. As it stands just going to have to keep any eye out for any deals on it.

    EDIT: Just noticed it for £49.99 on shop.to, pre-order placed :D
    Edited by Masaroth at 09/03/11 @ 17:24

  • arcam #9 1 year ago

    I assume that's a console RRP?

  • makariel #10 1 year ago

    Well, the augmented edition for PC costs on amazon less than the standard version for consoles... which should I take? Hmmmm...

  • DRUNK3N-_-DRAGON #11 1 year ago

    i would see the point if there was multyplayer in the frickin thing

  • craziii #12 1 year ago

    I 2nd geeza's post, down with that sort of marketing ploy.

  • darkmorgado #13 1 year ago

    Sounds like a fairly poor Special Edition, especially at the upper end of the price range.

    A documentary, art book, soundtrack and a comic are poor value?

    It's a lot better than most collector's editions.

  • darkmorgado #14 1 year ago

    i would see the point if there was multyplayer in the frickin thing

    Are you for real?

    GTFO

  • glottis0 #15 1 year ago

    That might just make the wait for 111111 bearable.

  • SilentTristero #16 1 year ago

    A documentary, art book, soundtrack and a comic are poor value?

    It's a lot better than most collector's editions.

    Perhaps a bit eager in referring to it as a 'documentary', if the hastily thrown together interviews with whoever was unlucky enough to be in the studio at the time on other Making Of's is anything to go by. This sort of thing typically accompanies a cinematic release by default, why should I be excited about it here?

    It's the minimum I expect from a CE; where are the actual collectables, the things I can display or actually put to use? Virtually everything has a special edition release now, and this isn't doing anything to stand out.

    I've even written more extensively on this topic in the past: http://lot-49.blogspot.com/2010/05/on-co...
    Edited by SilentTristero at 09/03/11 @ 23:53