@fulelo
Almost straight out of the video game Deus Ex, another thing it ended up predicting.

In the game, there is a shadowy conspiracy organization called MJ-12, bent on world domination. They created an AI called Daedalus to assist in their nefarious schemes. However they didn't create it from scratch; Daedalus was based on an earlier system called Echelon IV whose purpose was to sift through all the data on the Internet as well as phone conversations in order to find terrorist activity.

Because of this, Daedalus ends up classifying MJ-12 as a terrorist organization and 'goes rogue', not only no longer helping them, but actively helping the player character whose job it is to fight terrorists, to bring MJ-12 down.

I slept through the next three-or-so hours of the dev commentary video, but they just keep talking about stuff they had to cut that sounds way cooler than the actual game.

Apparently, Detroit II was supposed to be a a rehab clinic in Utah where people get their augs removed and the anti-aug terrorists were supposed to use it as cover for their base.

Hengsha II was supposed to be Bangalore, and Hengsha I was supposed to have more Upper Hengsha to explore, including Belltower HQ.

I wanna play the game these people wanted to make!

Don't let my never-ending complaints deter you, btw. DXHR is a very fun game.

Its just unfortunately a very linear game with a story that doesn't allow for more than two or three branching paths (which immediately lead back to the main path). It's a poor Deus Ex game. By average gaming standards, it's perfectly good.