How Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is balancing stealth, action, and story

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is one of the major titles coming this summer, and Square Enix showed off another preview of the game to mark the progress it has made since this spring. I got a good look at the early levels of the game, which now have more cinematic elements that add more emotion and context to the story.

The story is what will carry this action-stealth role-playing game. The game takes place in 2029, two years after the events of Deus Ex: Human Revolution, which closed with an “aug” incident where augmented human beings lost control and attacked and killed millions of people. Now there’s a state of “mechanical apartheid,” where augmented humans are discriminated against. It is a tale that will remind you of other sci-fi media, such as the Blade Runner film; the I, Robot novels; and the Battlestar Galactica reboot.