While not a triumph, [i]Mankind Divided[/i] is an extremely enjoyable cyberpunk adventure with enough content and gameplay options to keep fans of the franchise happy. The main story lacks impact and drops off completely at the end, but the missions are almost universally fantastic, allowing you to flex your cybernetically-enhanced muscles in a multitude of ways.

Eidos Montreal has returned to the world of Deus Ex five years after its resoundingly successful resurrection of the series, Human Revolution. While that game didn't manage to hit the rose-tinted heights of its progenitor, it certainly removed the bad taste left by the bite-sized disappointments of its technologically-hobbled sequel. As a result, hopes were high that Mankind Divided could recapture that same magic and deliver another stunning adventure into an augmented yet broken future. For the most part, Eidos has delivered, but unfortunately, not all of the game's limbs seem to be wired correctly.

Mankind Divided is set two years after the infamous Aug Incident which saw a large proportion of the world’s augmented population temporarily driven insane by a mad-man intent on driving a wedge between the world’s augmented citizens and “natural” humans. Our protagonist Adam Jensen was able to shut down the signal shortly after its activation preventing even further loss of life, but not before an already countless number of innocent lives were lost. The aftermath of this event is at the very core of the Mankind Divided story, which takes place in a world where the augmented are treated with distrust, fear, and outright hatred.

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The Season Pass for Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is available now for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.

Those that already own the game can purchase the pass for NZ$40 on Steam, or NZ$49 for console.

Alternatively, a Digital Deluxe Edition is available with the Season Pass bundled and costs NZ$120 on Steam, and NZ$165 on console stores.

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Our download code for Mankind Divided arrived on Tuesday, and fittingly for a sandbox game, there were several things I could do as a result. I could blaze through it on very little sleep in order to get a full review up at embargo. I could take my time and produce a more considered but late review at a future date. I could run our Human Revolution review, changing only those two words. I could ignore it completely. (Admittedly, these choices aren't quite as scintillating as the ones you make in your typical Deus Ex title.)

But really, there was only one choice I could make, for I couldn’t rush through a Deus Ex game if Adam Jensen's fist blades were at my throat. These are titles to soak in, titles to savour and reflect upon. Besides, my Internet currently sucks, so the roughly 45GB download took out my first night of play. This means I'm about 10 hours into a meticulous investigate-everything stealth run, but hopefully I can still provide some insight.

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We were all created equal… But in 2029, after the Aug incident which caused the death of millions, mankind stands divided. The oppression of the mechanically augmented has created a climate of fear and resentment, resulting in an escalation of crime and acts of terror. Amid all the chaos, Adam Jensen goes after are the Illuminati, the men and women responsible for tearing the world apart. Armed with a new arsenal of state-of-the-art weapons and augmentations, he must choose the right approach, along with who to trust, in order to unravel a vast worldwide conspiracy.

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Controversy has erupted following the release of PR imagery for Deus Ex: Mankind Divided that bears similarity to highly charged real-world incidents.

Eidos and Square Enix released set of concept art pieces depicting various cities - including Sydney, London, Berlin, and mystifyingly Blackpool - as they would appear in the game's cybernetically-enhanced future.

The controversy stems from a protest banner in the Moscow image that reads "Augs Lives Matters," echoing the Black Lives Matter movement that began in 2013; the Paris image also sports graffiti saying "les vies des augs comptent," which translates to the same message.

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We took to the streets of London, England, to pose a question that has eluded even some of the most hardcore series fans; Just how do you pronounce Deus Ex? Delving into the origins of the title, with the help of one of language’s greatest expert minds, this latest video will finally provide fans and newcomers alike with the ability to shout Deus Ex out loud, proud and more importantly, correctly.

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Q: What did I miss having not been able to attend the hands-on?

Olivier Proulx: I’m sorry to say you missed out on a lot! We came here with a near-final version of the game and asked people to play the first act. They played the Dubai intro, which is the first map of the game where you reintroduced to Adam Jensen. You go straight into infiltration mode – it’s a bit more of a straightforward map – but we use it to teach you some of the game mechanics so there’s a lot of tutorial elements. We even have some hologram sections where we pause the game and give you the option to practice the core mechanics, so you can get comfortable with the stealth systems and the combat systems, and the cover – all that great stuff. And you have a lot of information as to how to use the controls.

Then you move into I would say the meaty part of Mankind Divided, which is set in Prague. There’s a lot of options to just explore, go off the beaten path in a very dense city where you can find side missions and great narrative tidbits hidden everywhere. Obviously you have your main missions you can follow, but you can really get lost – in a good sense – in the city. Then we encouraged players to move forward a little bit and go to Golem City, which is a ghetto outside of Prague, a slums area where unfortunately a lot of the people with body augmentations are being pushed away, while a lot of politics plays around what to do with them following the big events at the end of the previous game. Also, Breach mode was available, and so far it’s been pretty positive response to the preview tour.

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Square Enix today announced two new games set within the Deus Ex universe, one of which will be included with Deus Ex: Mankind Divided.

Deus Ex GO is a mobile title featuring a "stylised interpretation" of Deus Ex gameplay, much in the vein of developer Square Enix Montreal's Hitman GO and Lara Croft GO.

Players will use turn-based hacking, combat, and augmentation abilities to infiltrate enemy locales and solve puzzles, in what studio head Patrick Naud says is "a fresh, reimagined puzzle experience that celebrates the franchise."

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Breach is an innovative game mode, included for free with Deus Ex: Mankind Divided. This new take on the game offers, for the very first time, an arcade approach on the gameplay of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, providing players with a connected puzzle shooter experience. As a Ripper, a hacker in the year 2029, your objective is to obtain and sell highly classified corporate data by infiltrating some of the world’s most secure servers, using the funds you acquire to upgrade both your skills and arsenal.

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In this section of the game, set in the poor district of the city, Adam Jensen wakes up after being caught in a devastating attack, allegedly perpetrated by augmented extremists, which is causing his augs to malfunction. He needs to see Vaclav Koller, an underground augmentation specialist, so that he can have a look at them and help him get back into shape.

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In 2027, mechanically-augmented people all over the world suffered from extreme psychotic delusions, lost control of themselves, and started attacking people. Millions died. Hundreds of thousands more were injured and maimed. In the wake of this global catastrophe, society has become divided by hatred, prejudice, and fear, with many countries now enacting harsh laws. The most notable of these laws is the highly controversial “Human Restoration Act”, aimed at isolating “Augs” and keeping them away from “Naturals”. Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is coming August 23rd, 2016 on PC, PS4 and Xbox One.

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In Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, you become Adam Jensen, a counterterrorism agent working for an Interpol unit known as Task Force 29. On the surface, Jensen’s goal is to hunt down terrorists in a world that’s spinning out of control, where mechanically augmented humans live a life of complete and total segregation from the rest of society. But what he’s really after are the Illuminati: the men and women who are always pulling the strings. His investigation will take you around the world, with the decisions you make and the actions you take playing a crucial role in determining the game’s outcome. Choose between combat, stealth, social, and hacking approaches to achieve your objectives. Be mindful though, as there will be a meaningful consequence to every action and choice you make. Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is coming August 23rd, 2016 on PC, PS4 and Xbox One.

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Deus Ex: Mankind Divided has had its release date pushed back to August, according to Square Enix and Eidos.

Eidos Montreal boss David Anfossi said the delay will enable extra "post-production for tuning, iterations, and refinement to meet our high standards."

"I know that expectations are extremely high," said Anfossi, "and we not only want to meet those expectations, but exceed them."

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Spoilers for Human Revolution within.


Deus Ex: Human Revolution featured an “ending vending machine” because time ran out on the production, says the game’s narrative lead.

For those that aren’t aware or don’t remember, the player chose the ending they wanted in Human Revolution by pressing one of four buttons on a console, effectively negating any of Adam Jensen’s actions up to that point.

“We actually didn’t plan to go with that,” Eidos Montreal’s narrative lead Mary DeMarle told VG24/7.

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Adam Jensen is the next step in human evolution. In Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, he is now an experienced covert operative, forced to operate in a world that has grown to despise his kind. Armed with a new arsenal of state-of-the-art weapons and augmentations, he must choose the right approach, along with who to trust, in order to unravel a vast worldwide conspiracy. This new in-game trailer highlights the Titan shield, as well as his new gun-arm augmentations: the Tesla, the Nanoblade and the PEPS. Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is coming February 23rd, 2016 on PS4, Xbox One and PC. #CantKillProgress

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This new episode of DXTV focuses on one of the most important milestones in the development of the latest instalment in the series, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided – the first time that members of the press were invited into the studio to play the game. Join the development team as they nervously await the reactions of those who played two early levels from the game – the initial Dubai tutorial and a classic Deus Ex-style level from later in the game that sees Adam Jensen infiltrate the Dvali Theatre in Prague.

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Gaming’s perpetual window to the future, the Deus Ex franchise, has long been regarded as one of the most innovative series ever created. From JC Denton to Adam Jensen, we’re looking back at 15 years of Deus Ex with a unique animated trailer, recreating some of the most iconic scenes from the series. Deus Ex: Mankind Divided will be released on February 23rd, 2016 on Xbox One.

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Taking place in Prague, the ‘Desperate Measures’ extra in-game mission has you playing as Adam Jensen, returning to the epicenter of the Ruzicka train station explosion that recently rattled the city to its very core. With tampered security footage hampering the investigation behind the attack, you must rely on both your augmentations, and skills as a covert operative, in order to unveil the true culprit responsible for the bombing.

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Deus Ex: Mankind Divided will launch on February 23rd, 2016 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC! Pre-order now to choose your own rewards and help release the game 4 days early for everyone, with Augment your Pre-Order.

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Deus Ex: Mankind Divided will launch globally on February 23, 2016 for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Windows PC, publisher Square Enix and developer Eidos-Montréal have announced.

Mankind Divided is set in 2029 in the Czech Republic capital Prague, two years after the events of Human Revolution. Adam Jensen returns as the protagonist, working with an international coalition to halt a rising tide of terrorist attacks, while the public rallies against those with augmentations.

Eidos-Montréal previously announced that stealth is a viable tactic all the way through the game including the boss fights, and that there will be a New Game+ mode.

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Deus Ex: Mankind Divided will feature a New Game+ mode, Eidos Montreal has revealed via Twitter.

Expanding on the announcement via a DXTV video blog, Executive Game Director Jean-Francois Dugas and Gameplay Director Patrick Fortier said the mode will show players "even more about all the [game's] maps and secrets".

In the game's predecessor, Human Revolution, hub worlds featured areas only accessible with late-game abilities; it seems Eidos Montreal are doubling down by allowing players to replay with their newfound abilities.

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Square Enix dropped a bundle of new assets from Deus Ex: Mankind Divided at Gamescom 2015 last week.

Check out the screenshots and concept art for the game, launching in 2016 on new-gen consoles and PC.

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Although it was greeted with near-unanimous acclaim upon release, there were things about Deus Ex: Human Revolution that Eidos Montreal wasn’t completely happy with.

The boss fights were one, of course, but there was also a feeling that the game’s combat wasn’t quite where the dev team hoped it would be. It certainly wasn’t on par with the game’s other pillars of stealth, hacking, and social interactions.

“Combat is one thing we wanted to tweak a little bit,” says Mankind Divided gameplay director Patrick Fortier. “We felt it wasn’t quite on par with the stealth in Human Revolution. So we took time to make it a little more visceral… reactive.”

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This gameplay footage was captured from an Alpha build and does not represent the final quality of the game. For the purpose of this demo, full life, energy and ammo are activated. Watch a full 25 minutes of pure gameplay from Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, with commentary from Executive Audio Director, Steve Szczepkowski. Spoilers from 18:25 to 22:20.

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The year is 2029, and mechanically augmented humans have now been deemed outcasts, living a life of complete and total segregation from the rest of society. Now an experienced covert-agent, Adam Jensen is forced to operate in a world that has grown to despise his kind. Armed with a new arsenal of state-of-the-art weapons and augmentations, he must choose the right approach, along with who to trust, in order to unravel a vast worldwide conspiracy.

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The PC version of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided will be handled by Square Enix port specialists Nixxes Software.

Nixxes has previously worked on ports for games including Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Tomb Raider, Hitman Absolution, Thief, and Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris.

“We have teamed up with our long term partners at Eidos-Montréal to create the best experience for Adam Jensen's latest adventure, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided on PC,” said the company.

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Players will be able to ghost their way through the entirety of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, Eidos Montreal has confirmed.

That includes the game’s boss fights.

The developer was criticised for the way boss fights were handled in 2011's Deus Ex: Human Revolution, as the use of stealth and hacking tactics was not initially an option.

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Deus Ex: Mankind Divided directly follows the aftermath of the Aug Incident, a day when mechanically augmented citizens all over the world were stripped of control over their minds and bodies, resulting in the deaths of millions of innocents. The year is now 2029, and the golden era of augmentations is over. Mechanically augmented humans have been deemed outcasts and segregated from the rest of society. Crime and acts of terror serve as a thin veil to cover up an overarching conspiracy aimed at controlling the future of mankind… Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is coming soon on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC.

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Deus Ex: Mankind Divided will be “an uncompromising Deus Ex experience”, says Eidos-Montréal.

Speaking with PS Blog, executive game director Jean-Francois Dugas added: “Choice and consequence is at the heart of everything we do, whether it be for story, gameplay, customisation or exploration. As you can imagine, we will have quite a lot to show you in the coming months.”

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Updated 08/04/2015 8:48am:

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided has been officially revealed over at Game Informer.

It's set in 2029, two years after Human Revolution, and finds Adam Jensen joining forces with an Interpol-funded task force which aims to hunt down and capture augmented terrorists in a world that now hates and fears transhumans.

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