SeekerDeus Ex: Mankind Divided
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided feels exactly like Deus Ex: Human Revolution, for better and worse.
-- As reviewed by PCWorld
Product details
- IN THE NEAR FUTURE, MANKIND STANDS DIVIDED - Explore diverse locations and discover a near future where humanity's fate, amid the oppression of the mechanically augmented, hangs in the balance
- HUMAN 2.0 - Become the ultimate augmented covert agent as you choose from a vast array of weapons and augmentations, customizing them to your desired specifications
- MEANINGFUL CHOICE AND CONSEQUENCES - Experience the renowned world of Deus Ex, where your decisions and actions play a crucial role in determining the game’s outcome
- BREACH – innovative live game mode included for free; Offers an arcade approach providing a connected puzzle shooter experience; Rewards earned allow you to face the increasing difficulty of the game
PROS
+ Open-ended approach to missions
+ Much larger, more fluid areas than Human Revolution
+ New augments make for some interesting strategies
CONS
- Level design getting a bit too recognizable
- Lip-sync issues, and a few other performance hitches
- Story pitters out in the worst type of non-ending
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Expert reviews and ratings
By PCWorld on August 23, 2016
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided feels exactly like Deus Ex: Human Revolution, for better and worse.
70
By IGN on August 19, 2016
Aside from the smaller-feeling plot, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided improves upon its excellent predecessor in every other way. Its impeccably designed environments are flush with possibility, remaining completely coherent while supporting a wide variety of routes and character builds, and Jensen’s prodigious new feats of techno-wizardry add new dimension to both combat and exploration. Mankind Divided never stopped challenging me or rewarding my curiosity, which pushed me to thoroughly explore its beautiful, ruined world while carefully weighing my decisions along the way.
91
By TechAdvisor on September 07, 2016
While Deus Ex: Mankind Divided has all the core mechanics to make a great game – upgrades, conspiracy theories, a solid storyline and great voice acting – it just seems to fall flat after the first few missions. The storyline, although interesting doesn’t last for nearly as long as the Human Revolution campaign, even with a sprinkling of fairly interesting and varied side missions and the button layout is just a bit too different to other first person shooters to make it a game you can just pick up and play without a serious learning curve. If you’re a fan of the series we’d still recommend playing it as the story is great, but don’t expect to be sinking hundreds of hours into the game.
70
By TrustedReviews on August 19, 2016
In my preview, I talked about how well Mankind Divided presented its key themes within the opening chapter. The mechanical apartheid – where augmented humans have become a subclass of civilisation, bringing a society already tense after ‘The Incident’ to the brink of civil war – seeps into every interaction. It’s tantalising. My opening hours are spent exploring every side mission I can find.
60