However, while its attempt to address real world issues is admirable, like Icarus flying too close to the sun - an image used prominently in the game - the game fails in its ambitions to deliver the topical, zeitgeist-defining cyberpunk narrative we deserve. It intelligently moves the series forward, improving upon its predecessor, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, in nearly every way. In the former it unquestionably succeeds the latter is more complicated.ĭeus Ex: Mankind Divided excels as an evolution of the franchise. It promised to be more than just an entertaining and well-crafted action RPG - a game that will make you think about real world issues.
With a controversial marketing campaign employing charged phrases like “Mechanical Apartheid” and “Aug Lives Matter,” Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, the latest entry in the series, seems intent on invoking that history to make a bold entrance.
Ion Storm’s original Deus Ex (2000) is both a hugely influential video game and a stellar example of this prescient genre. The 1980’s sci-fi niche - defined global megacorporations, omnipresent surveillance, rebel hackers, and an increasingly blurred line between man, machine and information - envisioned a dystopia increasingly similar to the world as we know it. Fitbit Versa 3Ĭyberpunk should be having a moment.
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