The DeanBeat: Why Donald Trump should play Deus Ex: Mankind Divided

Deus EX: Mankind Divided has been in the works for several years, but its sci-fi plot is a prescient allegory for our U.S. Presidential campaign, where a divisive politician has capitalized on fears of terrorism and people who are not like us. Donald Trump ought to play this game, if only because it holds a mirror to his demagogue’s tactics of using race, religion, and the war on terror for his own personal political gain.

The cyberpunk story plays out the consequences of an incident where a nefarious man decides to divide humanity into two factions. His shadowy organization pits “natural” humans against mechanically augmented humans, or “augs.” In the previous game, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, the aug hero Adam Jensen tries but fails to stop the “aug incident,” where a signal sent to a chip in every aug’s head compels them to slaughter as many natural humans as possible. More than 50 million people die in a massive genocide before Jensen can stop the signal.