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Deus Ex: Mankind Divided Review
8 years ago
General
Hunted, subjugated, reviled, just for being part machine than man. The world of Deus Ex is not for the faint of heart, Augmented people are vilified after the Incident, deported to ghettos like Golem city, the nickname for the Utulek Complex, racism is high and Augs face persecution left and right.
Taking place after Human Revolution, MD puts you into the role of Adam Jensen once again, determined to undermine those in the shadows who seek to control all through augmentations or worse. You're with Task Force 21, a group brought together by the UN to deal with terrorism on the rise following the Incident, and tasked with going to Prague to learn the truth about ARC, the Augmented Rights Coalition, and the connection to terroism. A train bombing puts a damper on that and soon opens up a more darker world on the path to finding the truth.
The gameplay is different, as not only have the Augs been reworked, but you also have new experimental ones. One lets you make yourself invulnerable, another lets you hack remotely, and one even gives you nanoblades to kill or knock out your foes. Until later, you need to be mindful of what type upgrade, whether you wanna be sneaky and go ghost with invisibility and become a master hacker, or go guns blazing, the choice is yours.
The story itself is engaging, exploring Prague as you go around, solving the bigger mystery, while uncovering elements of Prague's corruption, between the Dvali crime family's anti-aug agenda, the police's corrupt enforcement of segregation, and ARC and anti-Aug sentiment, the city is vast as it is desegregated. Once a proud city of innovation for Augmented, now buses and subways are split between naturals and Augmented people. Families torn from the Incident and not speaking to each other, and brutal beatings and force deportations to Utulek in the night.
Utulek, Golem City, even if you only go there once, it shows how split the world has become. A massive ghetto that was originally used to house augmented workers, now all augs are thrown there. the depravity of the people there is heartbreaking, as are the themes prevalent in the game. Adam must choose to try and help, and you can, but how you go about it has complications later on. For instance, help one person escape Prague would deny another to Golem, and you might find them there in the worse conditions, needless to say, the world's bleak, and if anyone played Invisible War or the original Deus Ex, you know it's gonna be worse.
this game made me think about what to say, how to act, and really drew parallels to our world, minus augmentations, and it gave me a new sense of how bleak the world is and the challenges one faces trying to make it better by exposing the lies. But the DLCs help flesh it out. Each DLC was on sale and so i purchased them. System Rift has you play with Pritchard from HR, asking you to hack into the world's tightest info bank in Prague, during which you learn some unsavory truths about the company and need to learn how to be crafty with hacking. It also helps that it leads to the Breach game, but more on that later.
Desperate MEasures is a Free DLC that helps flesh more out on the investigation into the train crash, as well as who else is behind it. And lastly Criminal Past has you go back to Adam's first year in TF21, infiltrating a prison to rescue an agent who went dark, while uncovering the harsh conditions of a super max prison for augmented, and examples of police brutality.
And lastly Breach, a ingame mode that has you hack into the info bank to loot and steal information. Never tried it myself, but the game offers lore about the companies and their darker secrets, and has you attempt to hack into the vaults and expose the truth. You get instances of trying it, so i recommend you give it a go at least once.
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is a fun adventure that got me to think about the civil rights of people, and how media can be manipulated by those who don't want the truth exposed. Yet there are people who fight against the system to expose the truth. It got me to think about a lot of hot button topics, while giving me a fun game to play, i really hope these people remake the original Deus Ex and its sequel, or continue the game with Adam's story. I really wanna know how it ends.
Taking place after Human Revolution, MD puts you into the role of Adam Jensen once again, determined to undermine those in the shadows who seek to control all through augmentations or worse. You're with Task Force 21, a group brought together by the UN to deal with terrorism on the rise following the Incident, and tasked with going to Prague to learn the truth about ARC, the Augmented Rights Coalition, and the connection to terroism. A train bombing puts a damper on that and soon opens up a more darker world on the path to finding the truth.
The gameplay is different, as not only have the Augs been reworked, but you also have new experimental ones. One lets you make yourself invulnerable, another lets you hack remotely, and one even gives you nanoblades to kill or knock out your foes. Until later, you need to be mindful of what type upgrade, whether you wanna be sneaky and go ghost with invisibility and become a master hacker, or go guns blazing, the choice is yours.
The story itself is engaging, exploring Prague as you go around, solving the bigger mystery, while uncovering elements of Prague's corruption, between the Dvali crime family's anti-aug agenda, the police's corrupt enforcement of segregation, and ARC and anti-Aug sentiment, the city is vast as it is desegregated. Once a proud city of innovation for Augmented, now buses and subways are split between naturals and Augmented people. Families torn from the Incident and not speaking to each other, and brutal beatings and force deportations to Utulek in the night.
Utulek, Golem City, even if you only go there once, it shows how split the world has become. A massive ghetto that was originally used to house augmented workers, now all augs are thrown there. the depravity of the people there is heartbreaking, as are the themes prevalent in the game. Adam must choose to try and help, and you can, but how you go about it has complications later on. For instance, help one person escape Prague would deny another to Golem, and you might find them there in the worse conditions, needless to say, the world's bleak, and if anyone played Invisible War or the original Deus Ex, you know it's gonna be worse.
this game made me think about what to say, how to act, and really drew parallels to our world, minus augmentations, and it gave me a new sense of how bleak the world is and the challenges one faces trying to make it better by exposing the lies. But the DLCs help flesh it out. Each DLC was on sale and so i purchased them. System Rift has you play with Pritchard from HR, asking you to hack into the world's tightest info bank in Prague, during which you learn some unsavory truths about the company and need to learn how to be crafty with hacking. It also helps that it leads to the Breach game, but more on that later.
Desperate MEasures is a Free DLC that helps flesh more out on the investigation into the train crash, as well as who else is behind it. And lastly Criminal Past has you go back to Adam's first year in TF21, infiltrating a prison to rescue an agent who went dark, while uncovering the harsh conditions of a super max prison for augmented, and examples of police brutality.
And lastly Breach, a ingame mode that has you hack into the info bank to loot and steal information. Never tried it myself, but the game offers lore about the companies and their darker secrets, and has you attempt to hack into the vaults and expose the truth. You get instances of trying it, so i recommend you give it a go at least once.
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is a fun adventure that got me to think about the civil rights of people, and how media can be manipulated by those who don't want the truth exposed. Yet there are people who fight against the system to expose the truth. It got me to think about a lot of hot button topics, while giving me a fun game to play, i really hope these people remake the original Deus Ex and its sequel, or continue the game with Adam's story. I really wanna know how it ends.
