Deus Ex: Human Revolution The Missing Link DLC Preview and Interview

We have some new coverage about The Missing Link, the first piece of DLC for Deus Ex: Human Revolution, slated for an October release, starting with this brief preview from GameSpot:

Once you recover all your stuff from a locked stockroom, you then need to orchestrate your escape, and your path takes you topside to reveal that, yes, you’re on a boat. And, yes, the boat is on the move to an undisclosed destination, and the path to your escape is blocked by many, many armed guards. Exactly how you end up making your escape will be up to you; Eidos Montreal has crafted the DLC mission to encourage players to replay it using different approaches, such as hacking, stealth, or gunplay.

Though we won’t divulge any more story details here to avoid spoiling the experience, we will say that the DLC content looks noticeably better than the original Deus Ex, thanks to enhanced lighting effects that the team was able to implement based on lessons learned from the original game’s development. Speaking of which, Eidos Montreal representatives were quick to point out that despite some negative assumptions from fans, The Missing Link is all-new content that wasn’t originally planned to appear in the original game and was later cut out specifically to sell as additional content.

Then we conclude with this equally brief article/interview with video from Shacknews, with Eidos Montreal’s designer Antoine Thisdale:

While ‘The Missing Link’ injects itself into a lost piece of Human Revolution, the content isn’t cobbled together from spare parts. “It’s all new content. We didn’t recycle anything.” Thisdale tells me, mentioning that Eidos Montreal was able to add technical enhancements to the game that were unavailable during the development stages of Human Revolution.

“We have better lighting now,” he explains. “Better textures and the shaders respond to the lighting better. So, the characters look really good. Everybody that worked on [The Missing Link] is actually a veteran from Human Revolution. Lots of experience went into ‘The Missing Link.'” Eidos Montreal even went so far as to get new music for the DLC, created by Human Revolution composer Michael McCann.