Deus Ex: Human Revolution Developer on Concept Art Political Statement

You’ll recall we posted some new pieces of concept art for Deus Ex: Human Revolution about a week ago, which showed George W. Bush as “Wanted For Mass Murder”, a sneaky/hamfisted political statement. Well a few sites picked up on it, such as GamePolitics and Destructoid, who like us assumed it was an intentional political statement. However, according to Jean-Francois Dugas, talking to Silicon Era, it was anything but.

He let out a stifled laugh and rolled his eyes when I brought the topic up. I wondered, for a second, if I wasn’t the first to do so. (That was concept art that was internal. Sometimes, the artist they do stuff, they put in crazy stuff in we laugh. Internally, it is supposed to be fun, but it’s not meant to be released,) Dugas clarified.

(It was in no way a political statement whatsoever. It was someone, somewhere, thought it was fun and that’s it.)