Square Enix is doing possibly the weirdest game reveal in the history of gaming. Instead of just biting the bullet and letting the world know at once, they’re forcing us to sit through a three-day reveal which is magnitudes more disorganised than any Twitch Plays Pokémon game ever. Thankfully, the internet is impatient – which is why the game we’ve been waiting for has leaked. And it’s not at all surprising.
According to keen-eyed hawks on NeoGAF, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is the next installment in the long running (but recently resurrected) franchise, which will follow directly on from the knockout hit Human Revolution. Shortly afterwards, Game Informer outed the title as their cover page for May, confirming setting and story details. Mankind Divided will feature protagonist Adam “I didn’t ask for this” Jensen once again, in a fairly similar game to Human Revolution. The game is set two years after the events of Human Revolution, as Jensen teams up with a task force to hunt down transhuman terrorists – after all the damage the Illuminati wrought at the end of the previous game.
Mankind Divided will retain the mix of stealth and high-octane combat from the previous game, allowing players to mould Jensen into the killing machine they envision him to be. That means more augmentations, more highly customisable weaponry and hopefully far better balanced bosses. The big difference at this stage seems to be the AI – they’ve learnt that sticking in groups probably increases their life expectancy around a guy like Jensen.
The game is expected to launch for PC, PS4 and Xbox One, and judging by the four screenshots that accompanied the leak it looks unlikely to be coming to older hardware. I’d take them, in particular, with a pinch of salt at this stage – considering just how mind-blowingly incredible the in-game shots look already. Bullshots are a very real thing.
Either way, we’re bound to hear much more about Mankind Divided very, very soon. I, for one, cannot wait.
Last Updated: April 8, 2015
Admiral Chief
April 8, 2015 at 07:35
YES! I ASKED FOR THIS!!!
I wonder which ending will be the canon ending, since AJ is alive
Dutch Matrix
April 8, 2015 at 07:56
JC Denton is your father. And your mother was a member of the Borg…
Admiral Chief
April 8, 2015 at 07:58
No, actually JC, Paul and Alex are all cloned from Jenson, if I remember correctly
Dutch Matrix
April 8, 2015 at 07:59
That is what they want you to believe…
Axon1988
April 8, 2015 at 08:00
What were those dinosaur birds called in DX? I think those are also related… 😛
Dutch Matrix
April 8, 2015 at 08:02
I think they were called Tweety. 😛 I cannot remember dinosaur birds… Been a good few years since I played DX…
Axon1988
April 8, 2015 at 08:03
But they were GREEN. Also they hurt me a lot.
Admiral Chief
April 8, 2015 at 08:05
Greasels
Axon1988
April 8, 2015 at 08:09
YEAH! Horrible creatures! Absolutely one of the worst ever. I do hope they make a come back.
Dutch Matrix
April 8, 2015 at 08:21
It’s all coming back, it’s all coming back to me now…
Axon1988
April 8, 2015 at 08:23
There were nights when the wind was so cold
That my body froze in bed
If I just listened to it
Right outside the window
Dutch Matrix
April 8, 2015 at 08:24
But you were history with the slamming of the door…
Lord Chaos
April 8, 2015 at 08:25
And I can’t remember where or when or how…
Dutch Matrix
April 8, 2015 at 08:26
But I banished every memory you and I have ever made
Axon1988
April 8, 2015 at 08:27
There were days when the sun was so cruel
That all the tears turned to dust
And I just knew my eyes were
Drying up forever
Admiral Chief
April 8, 2015 at 08:36
W
T
F
Axon1988
April 8, 2015 at 08:41
It’s a sing along! Except that nobody is singing along…
rollingmol
April 8, 2015 at 08:41
Borg mentality?
Lord Chaos
April 8, 2015 at 08:42
Failed day 1 patch?
Zubayr Bhyat
April 8, 2015 at 08:59
Laputan Machine 🙁
Viking Of Science
April 8, 2015 at 08:52
If they’re smart, They’ll have you import your old save, Or have you make that choice in the beginning, a la Mass effect 2.
Admiral Chief
April 8, 2015 at 07:36
As long as I can do my sneaky ninja, I’m happy.
Zubayr Bhyat
April 8, 2015 at 09:00
That’ll definitely be in. My last playthrough was all stealth. The XP bonuses were so worth it.
Hammersteyn
April 8, 2015 at 09:05
Did not even see me coming
http://img0.joyreactor.com/pics/post/mixed-gif-wall-break-1822144.gif
Ranting Raptor
April 8, 2015 at 07:51
Looks like Cryengine
Admiral Chief
April 8, 2015 at 07:56
Not a bad thing
Dutch Matrix
April 8, 2015 at 07:58
Nope. Sorry. it’s the Doom 3 engine. 😛
Ranting Raptor
April 8, 2015 at 08:03
Really? Wow. Impressed if it is
Dutch Matrix
April 8, 2015 at 08:05
Actually it is a heavily modified version of the Quake 1 engine. 😛
Lord Chaos
April 8, 2015 at 08:06
I would have guessed it was a tweak on the first Unreal engine.
Dutch Matrix
April 8, 2015 at 08:07
Nope. Sorry. They actually tweaked the Castle Wolfenstein engine. But just by a little bit.
Lord Chaos
April 8, 2015 at 08:08
Wolfenstein 3d, the game that’s actually generated in 2D. :/
Ranting Raptor
April 8, 2015 at 08:42
Now you’re screwing with me
Dutch Matrix
April 8, 2015 at 08:00
Just another game I won’t be able to play because hardware.
Ross Woofels Mason
April 8, 2015 at 08:02
Awesome, I loved Human revolution. Actually played through it again in December. Story got iffy but the gameplay in that game is just a ton of fun.
Lord Chaos
April 8, 2015 at 08:03
Want to replay it again someday. I got bored and pretty much just berzerked the last 25% of the game.
Ross Woofels Mason
April 8, 2015 at 08:11
Yeah that was my problem the first time I played it. Managed to go for the ghost runs on the Wii U directors cut but that was because i did not care about the story second time around lol.
Ranting Raptor
April 8, 2015 at 08:04
Confession bear: I’ve never played any of the Deus Ex games…..
Dutch Matrix
April 8, 2015 at 08:06
The first one was quite amazing. The second and the third ones never really appealed to me.
Zubayr Bhyat
April 8, 2015 at 09:01
Second had me kakking myself over choice, human revolution was great – it needed better level design though.
Captain JJ the flash noob
April 8, 2015 at 08:16
The First
The best
Second…very bad
And HR is actually good. Just a few issues if you’re into the stealth thing.
Greylingad
April 8, 2015 at 08:19
Stealth thing? You managed stealth in HR…. I bow to you lord of stealth!
Dutch Matrix
April 8, 2015 at 08:19
I managed stealth in Quake 2…
Greylingad
April 8, 2015 at 08:29
I loved the stealth element in Quake 2, it’s the shotgun in your face kind of stealth that works best for me….
Captain JJ the flash noob
April 8, 2015 at 08:33
http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/facebook/000/296/441/24a.jpg
Greylingad
April 8, 2015 at 08:36
HAHAHAHAHA!!!
Pariah
April 8, 2015 at 08:21
I managed stealth in HR O_o
It was just those boss battles that pissed me off no end.
Captain JJ the flash noob
April 8, 2015 at 08:21
I tried to do the entire game in Stealth. But then come the boss battles and you’re pretty much set up for sneaking against a tank in a square room.
Pariah
April 8, 2015 at 08:22
Yup. This.
Greylingad
April 8, 2015 at 08:28
I couldn’t stealth a single section in that game, not because I’m bad at stealth, but because of [insert random bug here] and then trying to traverse the scenery… good lord… I have never had a game frustrate me as much as those awful boss battles… “Wow great, you made it to here sneaking did you? Muhahaha!! Well up yours, you suck and you will die….repeatedly… and a few times more just for good measure, because we felt like it…”
Brady miaau
April 8, 2015 at 08:48
Nah, I could stealth large sections, played on Xbox 360. Just timing and stuff. Also fun to take a guard down, then drag his body somewhere.
Hammersteyn
April 8, 2015 at 09:04
The first is still the best.
Captain JJ the flash noob
April 8, 2015 at 09:39
By far far 🙂
Shan
April 8, 2015 at 08:13
Life completion is near…..
Captain JJ the flash noob
April 8, 2015 at 08:14
I just hope they don’t make the same mistakes as they had in HR.
Brady miaau
April 8, 2015 at 08:16
Boss battles? or did I miss other stuff? Played it through 4 times, which for me is a lot, for any game.
Captain JJ the flash noob
April 8, 2015 at 08:20
Boss battles. Yes.
It also lacked the darkness that the original had, but I can’t complain about that really.
It was a good game.
Lord Chaos
April 8, 2015 at 08:23
More like Dishono(u)red?
Captain JJ the flash noob
April 8, 2015 at 08:26
That was also quite a decent game.
I just really enjoyed the original Deus Ex.
Brady miaau
April 8, 2015 at 08:47
Deus Ex was much, much better. I found it fluid and easy to play, while keeping it tricky. I thought the stealth was very well done and accessible to me, a casual player of games like that.
Dishonoured, yeah, not so sure. It was one of those almost brilliant games. in my ever correct opinion, of course.
Captain JJ the flash noob
April 8, 2015 at 09:40
The Stealth in Dishonoured was a bit iffy at times.
Zubayr Bhyat
April 8, 2015 at 09:02
Boss battles were rubbish imo. We should get darkness now that it’s probably going to be on current gen only.
Hammersteyn
April 8, 2015 at 09:03
Agreed
Greylingad
April 8, 2015 at 08:15
But it’s…and they…and then the thing with the…ok…I’ll then have air to eat for the rest of the year…take my money…
Rock789
April 8, 2015 at 08:33
YES!! Please let it be so! I’ve been longing for a new Deus Ex – LOVED Human Revolution! I’m ready to get augmented once again.
Hammersteyn
April 8, 2015 at 09:06
http://media.giphy.com/media/FjeGBljESVAzu/giphy.gif
sigma7
April 8, 2015 at 14:07
Looks good and everything, but seems like a Crysis game.
Ghost In The Rift
April 8, 2015 at 20:29
Those graphics!!!!, so sorry old gen, its your time to die!