Hands-on with the black-and-gold world of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided

Few sci-fi stories are as good as those that question the line between what’s human and what’s not. The tales resonate across media, like with Blade Runner film; the I, Robot novels; the Battlestar Galactica reboot; and the Deus Ex video game series. We’re about to dive back into this theme with the impending launch of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided.

It’s coming out on the PC and consoles on August 23, and it brings back its mechanically augmented hero Adam Jensen. It’s a sequel to the 2011 game, Deus Ex: Human Revolution. That game had cinematic storytelling, but its gameplay had flaws. Mankind Divided aims to fix those problems and to give the story of cyber-humanity its due. If it really works as publisher Square Enix and its studio Eidos Montreal promise, it could be the best game in the series.