It promised to be more than just an entertaining and well-crafted action RPG - a game that will make you think about real world issues. With a controversial marketing campaign employing charged phrases like “Mechanical Apartheid” and “Aug Lives Matter,” Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, the latest entry in the series, seems intent on invoking that history to make a bold entrance. Ion Storm’s original Deus Ex (2000) is both a hugely influential video game and a stellar example of this prescient genre.
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