Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
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Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is an upcoming Cyberpunk-themed action role-playing video game—combining first-person shooter, stealth and role-playing elements—developed by Eidos Montreal and published by Square Enix as a sequel to the 2011 Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Set two years after Human Revolution in the year 2029, Mankind Divided features the return of Adam Jensen, with new technology and body augmentations.
Following the events of the previous game, animosity between augmented and non-augmented humans has reached the point wherein the very notion of augmentation is violently opposed by various elements of society. Now working for the Interpol-funded Task Force 29, Jensen is tasked with pursuing augmented terrorists. But he's also fighting his own war against the people responsible for the events of Human Revolution, in the process uncovering an ever deeper conspiracy.
- Can't Stop the Signal: The Juggernaut Collective, which is a global network of hackers, activists and anti-corruption agents.
- Crapsack World: More openly so than in Human Revolution. What once seemed like the cusp of a new golden age is becoming more and more like the messed-up state of affairs of the original Deus Ex.
- Cutting Off the Branches: Mankind Divided is stated to be vague regarding which ending of Human Revolution is canon, though Jensen himself would feel that whatever he did would seem like a failure. Elements of the plot are also mentioned as incorporating elements of every ending.
- Does This Remind You of Anything?: The state of affairs in 2029 can be described as "Mechanical Apartheid."
- Double Agent: Adam Jensen is actually working for the hacktivist Juggernaut Collective, which managed to get him into Task Force 29 with the intent of going after the Illuminati.
- Foreshadowing/Call Forward: Task Force 29 is basically a predecessor to UNATCO in the original Deus Ex.
- Government Conspiracy: Adam privately suspects that Task Force 29 is really a front for the Illuminati's plans.
- History Repeats: New forms of segregation and racism have emerged, with augmented humans even persecuted apartheid-style.