Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is a FPS Role-Playing games for PS4, XBONE and PC, which was developed by Eidos Montreal and published by Square Enix. It is sequel to 2011's game called Deus Ex: Human Revolution for PS3, X360 and PC, but also available on Wii U along with multiplatform consoles as Director Cut in 2013 release.
I remember playing Deus Ex: Human Revolution on my PS3 since 5 years ago, so it wasn't my favourite FPS shooter on my list, but it's still plays okay because it does have really great presentation, outstanding graphics design and decent combat gameplay which I had fun playing and sometimes the game can be quite frustrating for most of the missions, but overall it's better than the original 2000's game Deus Ex in my opinion. I've decided to play the 2016's sequel for my PS4 to see if this game actually becoming good as the Human Revolution and so far I actually liked this game a lot better than the previous game because I felt the both main and side mission are quite entertaining to play and the combat gameplay are just like the Human Revolution, but slightly more polished combat systems makes easier to play. The graphics are still outstanding for most of the game's design and I find the story in the game is pretty okay in the whole because it's not quite sounds strong as the previous game, but offers interesting narrative and conversation dialogue that made the storyplot sounds pretty decent overall.
Without go further do, let's talk about the game's overall.
Presentation
This game sets two years after the event of Human Revolution. It's starts off with augmented security offer Adam Jensen now working with the special interpol unit, Task Force 29, to capture terrorist group of augmented humans. After the mission from Task Force 29, he returns to Prague to meet his Juggernaut contact, Alex Vega giving Jensen a mission task just right before they got caught in the blast of terrorist's bombing, but they got survived after the terrorist's attack. His task is to make investigation that linked to terrorist's bombing and confront those who are behind the attacks in Prague.
I actually found the story is pretty interesting to hear the conspiracies theory that involves hiding behind the secrets that really affecting the human mankinds, but it's good to hear the character's investigation that brought out the information to find out what really happened to human's world. I also liked the dialogue conversation between the characters that brings out the extra plot in the game and the main protagonist Adam Jensen is quite a cool character with his awesome long-coat, futuristic sun-glasses and his badass aug-technology that made him look great, but he's lacked of his personality as he looked quite strict with the supporting characters during the conversation, which is okay for story's presentation. I also liked the looks of the stealth-kills animation where Jensen performs two types of melee attacks on their enemies, but it's seems too simple compared with the previous game that has more variety of melee attacks during the stealth-kills animation, but still it's pretty brutal at the same time in the game. The weakest point was the game's ending kinda feels empty that didn't give a proper story's conclusion and the length of the game is kinda short compared with the previous game doesn't mean the story sounds bad overall.
Overall, the story has interesting plotlines, the main character are quite decent and the cutscenes are quite cinematic especially with stealth-kills animations.
Gameplay
The player takes control of Adam Jensen to complete the each main and side-missions in the game.
The combat gameplay are slightly more polished than the previous game. It has some of the useful types of weapons such as pistol which is a basic weapon to use, but you can also modify this weapon with the silencer making it less noisy to shoot and changing the different types of bullets such as EMP bullet are useful for temporary disable security objects. The combat rifle are great for long-range distance, but you can also use anti-armor bullets are used for damaging enemy's armor, turrets and security robots which works really well with some different types of bullets. The shotgun works with the close-range combat, while sniper rifle are used for long-range distance, but allowing to give instant kills on the enemies. Most of the weapons in the games has amazing aiming controls and shooting accuracy making it more polished combat gameplay. You can perform two types of stealth-kills such as putting the enemy to sleep or instantly kill them, so putting the enemy to sleep are lot more quieter than using the instant melee kills for the stealth gameplay. In stealth gameplay, the player will see on the radar which actually tells that there are enemy nearby, so if the enemy did see you in the unauthorised area then they will fight you as hostle. You can hide behind the cover that prevent enemy caught you in action, so you will notice the yellow indicator on the screen which tells you that the enemy will able to notice you in the area before the fight starts. I say the stealth gameplay are very challenging for some missions which increases the fun factor of the single-player campaign.
On the dialogue tree, your character has to make decisions by selecting each of the conversation dialogue-lines, so it's entirely up to you to pick the ones is right for the game's story which increases the story experiences.
This game has several of the places to explore such as houses, hotels, bank, station, pubs and so on which are good for finding collectables datas, newspapers, ebook, and variable items. You can also hack some of the devices to gain infos, shutting down security cameras and obtaining codes to unlock doors, so I say the hacking gameplay are quite harder to trackdown the systems, but still it's quite challenging for those who enjoys collecting stuff. You can go to the store to purchase and sell the variety of weapons, bullets, computer software equipment, energy cell and health item which are very useful for some in-game missions. You can also use praxis kits to upgrade character's augmentations such as adding capacity of health and energy, abilities to lift heavy objects, using eye visions to scan the areas, making character's jump higher, adding more space on weapon and items inventory, and plenty of cool stuff that really enhanced the gameplay style.
Overall, it has entertaining missions, polished combat gameplay, great use of stealth mechanics, impressive hacking mode and some cool upgrades that made the game enjoyable.
Graphics
I say the graphics in the whole game are absolutely fantastic with glossy visual effects that has great use of textures details and the environment level design are well made for most of the buildings and places that has amazing backgrounds of the streets, pubs, houses and hotels which I believe the developer team wanted to make the level environment look bigger in the whole game. The character's design are looked realistic because you can see their facial expressions and body language are actually pretty more accurate and real alike as it's looked really good on the both cutscenes and in-game missions.
The graphics are much improved over the Human Revolution just to keep the game up to date. Overall, it offers fantastic visuals, great environment design and realistic character's models that made the game looked spectacular in general.
Music and Sounds
It really has upbeating industrial soundtrack mixed between electronic and ambient really sounds good in the whole game as it fits for gameplay missions and cinematic presentation adds the overall atmosphere. They did a amazing job with the sound effects of background sounds, ambient noise, gun shots and all of the sound work are sounds quite stunning and the voice cast did a great job of their character role that really fits the tone of voice as it's sounds really good on the character's dialogue.
Overall, it has stunning soundtrack, fantastic sound effects and great voice cast for their character role.
Special Features
This game has two side-stories downloadable content (via Jensen's stories) such as System Rift and A Criminal Past, and it features mini-game mode called Breach to complete the numerous of challenge which are quite cool to enjoy these features in this game. You can also check extra menus to see some of the cool trailers and behind the game scenes.
Advantages
Impressive presentation
Polished combat gameplay
Awesome stealth mechanics
Brutal melee kills
Outstanding graphics
Stunning soundtrack
Cool special features
Disadvantages
Short length campaign
Terrible ending
Final Verdict
Presentation 7.5/10 - Interesting plotlines, decent character and badass stealth-kills animations.
Gameplay 7.5/10 - Entertaining missions, polished combat gameplay, great use of stealth mechanics, impressive hacking mode and some cool upgrades.
Graphics 9/10 - Fantastic visuals, great environment design and realistic character's models.
Music and Sounds 8.5/10 - Stunning soundtrack, fantastic sound effects and great voice cast.
Special Features 7.5/10 - Three DLC content, mini-game mode and some extras.
Overall 7.5/10 - This is actually an enjoyable FPS game that has impressive missions, great combat and stealth gameplay, fantastic graphics design and interesting story that I finding it more entertaining. The game suffers short-length campaign and poor endings choices are not the best part of the game, but still this game offers exciting mini-game and three side-story DLC content to enjoy, so if you're the fan of this series or FPS role-playing genres in general then this game is definitely for you to pick up and play.
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