Speaking of augments, there are a bunch of new ones for you to try out such as Remote Hacking and the Elbow Chisel Launcher (not its real name) as well as tweaks to the old ones to make them more useful. You also start the game with a decent number of augments already available to you, which makes a nice change from the usual contrived reasons why youвЂ™re back to square one for the sequel. You no longer have to inhale protein bars to be able to sustain your augs, you get decent rewards for finding and using key codes and passwords rather than hacking things, you can rotate objects you pick up, and thereвЂ™s an option to auto-sort your inventory if you like that kind of thing. The core gameplay is very similar to Human Revolution with a number of tweaks and enhancements to make it a generally more pleasant experience. The other Augs, however, are having a pretty awful time of it and the game makes that abundantly clear a lot of the side missions are centred around helping out your downtrodden mechanical brethren in one way or another but it feels a bit weird that youвЂ™re able to solve all their issues with impunity despite being a вЂњclankвЂќ like them. You have a Claymore in your torso and can throw fridges so itвЂ™s not like a few cops are really going to cause you much trouble. Yes, youвЂ™re treated badly by the police, stopped and asked for documents at checkpoints and shouted at in the street by all manner of arseholes but youвЂ™re Adam Jensen, and so you can basically do whatever the fuck you like and nobodyвЂ™s going to be able to stop you. Now, I donвЂ™t want to shit on Eidos Montreal for trying to tackle a serious topic in a game and only partially succeeding but most of the places where they fall down are of their own making. Adam Jensen now works for InterpolвЂ™s Prague-based Task Force 29 (or does he? Yes he does, but also maybe not? Who can say?) as their only augmented field agent, which seems to mostly involve being dropped onto rooftops solo while everyone else goes in the front door. The core of the plot is honestly pretty formulaic, if well written, and its resolution is a little underwhelming вЂ“ IвЂ™m waiting to see if the planned DLC expands on the story or is more side content like Missing Link was, because the former could well change my view on things (though I generally dislike DLC being a вЂњmandatoryвЂќ part of the story, for obvious reasons).ДЇollowing on from The Incident, where augmented humans all went crazy and starting attacking people, there is now вЂ“ to quote the much-maligned marketing bumf вЂ“ a mechanical apartheid, with Augs and Naturals no longer allowed to share the same subway cars when fast-travelling. You know how films these days are always trilogies and that they typically film parts two and three in one go and just cut them into two movies meaning that part two is basically all setup and no payoff? Well thatвЂ™s how this feels. A plot which feels kind of lacklustre, to be completely honest. Yes there are some bits about his augments and a few conversations with David Sarif, but otherwise Jensen is just an augmented guy working for Interpol who gets involved in the plot. I think part of the problem is that, despite a few attempts later on in the story to kind of make him relevant with a few side missions, thereвЂ™s no real reason that you couldnвЂ™t have embodied a totally new character and still had the same experience. IвЂ™m not anti-Jensen, the man shares my first name after all, but while Human Revolution fundamentally centred around him it feels like a lot of the time Mankind Divided is off to his left a bit. This is the second game set in the Jensenverse, where gruff men in long coats alternate between skewering people with elbow chisels and holding intense philosophical debates with the leaders of political movements, though itвЂ™s unclear quite why it needed to be. I think itвЂ™s fair to say that I love Deus Ex I played the original obsessively, was hugely disappointed by Invisible War, delighted by Human Revolution and, I think, overall IвЂ™m happy with Mankind Divided.

Action role-playing, first-person shooter, stealth

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