In a simultaneous and global, violent outburst. An event that was basically that part in the dystopian futuristic tale where the robots go bad and attack their masters. Taking place almost exclusively in Prague, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided begins a few years after ‘the incident’ that occurred during the closing moments of Human Revolution. One that you can explore, discover, and then decide which path to take. In this way there’s something old-school about Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, and how you’re presented with a destination and then instead of being given a shiny glowing yellow light to follow are given an environment. Adding an arcade-like social element to the core game. Breach features a separate levelling system, an inventory made up of cards, leaderboards, and microtransactions. Via fancy virtual encounters that look like a cross between the main game, Tron, and Portal. Accessed via the main menu and given its own sub-section, in it you take control of a hacker, or Ripper, and are tasked with infiltrating corporate servers to steal Terabytes of data. But given the level of freedom, it probably could be done.ĭeus Ex: Mankind Divided features a game within the game called Breach. Does this mean that you could treat the world as an elaborate art exhibition, made up of bodies hanging all over Prague like you’re the villain in the next season of True Detective? It’s a disturbing way to even contemplate playing the game. This time with the added bonus of finding hidden experimental augmentations, like the aforementioned Titan armour, and stuff like being able to slow down time, dash across the room in an instant and even shoot projectile blades from your arm that can pin people to walls. Like with Human Revolution, upgrades come in the form of unlocking Augmentation abilities within Adam Jensen’s mostly-mechanical body. On the other hand, with the right Augmentations, like the new visually impressive body-covering Titan armour, you can go in guns blazing with a combat rifle and all sorts of ammo, moving from cover to cover. From police, to thugs, and private security officers. Or play the role of silent assassin and take everyone out. Go invisible, crawl through ducts, avoid engagement almost entirely. From a stealth perspective alone, there’s countless ways you can engage or avoid detection. And in this regard Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is truly impressive. Any first-person game that explicitly gives you the choice of whether or not you should kill, without taking sides, is one worth looking intro. Don’t worry though, they all lived.ĭeus Ex: Mankind Divided picks up where Human Revolution left off, not only in terms of story but in the freedom it gives you to tackle each mission how you see fit, which Augmentations or abilities you should unlock, and deciding when and if lethal force is an acceptable compromise. Plus, more body slams, gut punches and head cracks than I’d care to mention. Shot from a distance, elevated and hidden within some ducting. Not to mention the tranquiliser darts to the back of unsuspecting heads. From stun guns through to bolts of electricity fired directly from an artificial arm. It certainly wasn’t easy, but it also wasn’t devoid of any violent behaviour from my version of the protagonist, Adam Jensen. So when the end credits began to roll on Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, listing off the number of people it takes to bring together a high profile game release, being awarded with an achievement that more or less congratulated me for completing the entire game without killing a single person felt pretty good. It wasn’t, with many of the core tenants of the original, from being able to choose how and when to engage in a combat situation, through to deciding which skills you should develop, carrying over to Eidos Montreal’s surprise hit. Before the release of 2011’s Deus Ex: Human Revolution, a lot of fans of the 2000 original were left wondering if it would be a watered down Deus Ex-lite. Deus Ex is a name that carries with it a certain amount of weight.
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