When you played stealth in Human Revolution you felt like you had something that was some of the best stealth you could have in gaming. "Combat was good but it was not as good as it could be," Jacques-Bellette says on Human Revolution. The team wanted to make more offensive augmentations this time around, so while the Titan Shield will let you take more damage, you'll also be able to launch Jensen's arm blade at your enemies, or fire out a Tesla EMP. No longer do you have to go into a quick wheel to activate the ones you want they can now be assigned to the D-pad or to the shoulder buttons.Īnd there are new augmentations to play with, including a smart vision augmentation that lets you see what weapons your enemies have, as well as illegal augmentations that can be purchased from the black market. "It has maybe a few more gamey elements but it still feels like this interestingly complex system without making it too much of a chore at the same time."Īccessing Jensen's augmentations is also easier.
Something we wanted in Human Revolution but for all sorts of reasons didn't implement it is fog of war, so you don't always see the entire network." "It's the same recipe, I think we had something really good," says Jacques-Belletete.
#Deus ex mankind divided augmentation software#
Hacking has always been a big part of the Deus Ex franchise, and while the basic hacking gameplay is the same in Mankind Divided, it's now also more challenging thanks to booby traps and obstacles, which you'll need to find software to circumvent. This segregation is felt in the moments walking around the city: queues are separated by augs and non-augs, while non-augmented folks will act suspiciously around you. In Mankind Divided, society has segregated augmented and non-augmented humans, the latter now second-class citizens and many of them branded terrorists. "Apartheid" is still a very loaded word, and some commentators felt the game's use of it was somewhat flippant. The societal tension created from the fallout led to what the game refers to as the "Mechanical Apartheid", which has already caused some controversy.
Indeed they have: it's been two years since the Aug Incident, where augmented humans were hijacked and controlled to kill millions of people. "The good old days are gone," a police officer declares during our gameplay demo of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided. "Just look at the crazy architectural projects that are being done right now, or the ones that are projected for the next ten or fifteen years - it's crazier than what we're seeing in Hollywood sci-fi movies most of the time." Tensions rising "I'll always tell my guys, even though we want to make futuristic looking buildings or skyscrapers or structures, never invent it from scratch, find something that already exists and get inspired from it," says Jacques-Belletete. The team has also tried to ground the game's architecture in real-world examples. "They've evolved from Human Revolution because obviously they've also evolved in the real world." "All the touch technology - you're going to notice in Mankind Divided the information pads, the pocket secretaries and all these things," Jacques-Belletete tells us. Only two fictional years separate Human Revolution's and Mankind Divided's stories, and you'll notice that some of tech has advanced further to account for real-world developments.
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