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  1. Nov 25, 2016
    0
    Deus Ex: Mankind Divided it's a failure. Why Eidos decided to continue the story of Adam Jensen, which in HR was absolutely completed and didn't require any continuing. Anyway, in the Universe of Deus Ex needed a new main character. Not because, that Adam isn't interesting as character, but because devs made story of Adam in HR - completed.

    Negative aspects of DEMD: - weak plot -
    Deus Ex: Mankind Divided it's a failure. Why Eidos decided to continue the story of Adam Jensen, which in HR was absolutely completed and didn't require any continuing. Anyway, in the Universe of Deus Ex needed a new main character. Not because, that Adam isn't interesting as character, but because devs made story of Adam in HR - completed.

    Negative aspects of DEMD:

    - weak plot

    - not interesting & very small game world

    - not interesting characters

    - stupid AI

    - casual mini-hacking-games

    - microtransactions for singleplayer

    - dOwn engine - the corrupted version of the nice game engine - Glacier 2 by IO Interactive (Hitman Absolution). Apparently, Eidos & Nixxes Software engineers made themselves augmentations...instead hands they implanted to itself - ****

    Achievement unlocked: I Never Asked for This.
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  2. Aug 25, 2016
    1
    In game store for a single player game, wtf is that all about and a pre order bonus that only work for one play through is nothing more than a cynical and disgusting show of contempt for the customer.
  3. Aug 25, 2016
    0
    A game where you fight against corporations... feeding another corporation. DLC, Microtransactions, bad port and the extreme sell-out campaign ruined the original spirit of the saga. A very sad day for deus ex true fans.
  4. Aug 25, 2016
    0
    Microtransactions? I'll find something else to play.

    Microtransactions are what I expect on a $1 or $5 cellphone game...Not a triple-A PCgame. Sorry, not for me.
  5. Aug 27, 2016
    0
    An insult for gamers. Full price for a beta game, microtransactions (pay to win). Really, do you think this will be a bestseller? A triple A with microtransactions? I am so tired. I'm starting to play indies for that reason.
    This is how to spoil a franchise.
  6. Aug 24, 2016
    1
    Say no to microtrtansactions and half arsed console ports. It really sucks when franchises that only exist because of pc are not given a respectable effort on the pc version.

    No full priced game should contain microtransactions OR day 1 DLC. It is insulting.
  7. Aug 27, 2016
    3
    Oh boy, where should I just start........
    First of all it could have been a good game. The world and the theme are interesting. But they just **** up the execution.
    First the Pros: - Interesting setting and theme - Adam Jensen and his voice - Beautiful Prague - You can solve problems your way, ghost, panther or assault gameplay are possible - very interesting side stories Then
    Oh boy, where should I just start........
    First of all it could have been a good game. The world and the theme are interesting. But they just **** up the execution.

    First the Pros:
    - Interesting setting and theme
    - Adam Jensen and his voice
    - Beautiful Prague
    - You can solve problems your way, ghost, panther or assault gameplay are possible
    - very interesting side stories

    Then the cons
    - 1 use microtransactions
    - Day 1 DLC
    - **** up mouse controls
    - **** up performance
    - **** up weapon balance and handling in general
    - useless weapons
    - dumb AI
    - 1 **** Ending only
    - your choices in the game doesnt matter at all
    - numerous bugs that prevents you from progressing the story
    - stealth gameplay gives the highest rewards, people who goes in like rambo wont even get half the points a stealth player gets
    - boring story
    - boring characters with no depht at all
    - unbalanced skills

    and I could go on with that but I would run out of space before Im finished.

    The Pros are obvious. The setting with the conflict between naturals and augmented is highly interesting and well implemented in the game.
    You will really feel discriminated by the NPCs in the game.
    The city of prague with its many faces and places to discover will invite you to actually use your new skills to find new and hidden spots.
    But the crown jewels in this game are the sidequests. Each of them are highly interesting, well written and with possible choices that makes you think of it twice.

    The Cons however drags this game into the hole (too) close to games like Ride to Hell or Mindjack.
    The day 1 DLC and the 1 use microtransactions for singleplayer (!!!!!) makes you feel like a cow thats milked by the company. Next thing are probably day 1 single use DLCs which forces you to pay every single time you start a new game. Its like you buy a new car with all the fancy extra things like autopilot, a powerful air conditioner or more comfortable seats. But then you have to pay for it everytime you use them even tough you actually bought the entire car.

    No idea how they managed to **** up the controls and the performance but they did. The mouse sensitivity is a complete disaster. The sensitivity in the game is complete different than the menu and inventory ones. The mouse sensitivity in the minigames is also a complete different one. And even when you aim down sight the mouse sensitivity suddenly changes making precise shooting hard to impossible.

    The weapons are completely unbalanced. A unarmored and not augmented enemy can eat up to 10 shots from the pistol or 8 shots from the assault rifle but goes down with 1 shot from the battle rifle or the sniper rifle.
    The most pointless balance choice are the doors in this game. Each of them can eat more dmg than some of the best armored enemies in the game. And you cant shoot the lock open, you have to deplete the HP bar of the door. Yes! The **** doors in this game have visible HP bars.
    This makes the SMG for example completely useless in the game. And you will have to find or buy your ammo yourself. It doesnt matter you are working for Interpol, obviously it was budget cutting time again.

    The performance is shameful, the FPS sometimes will go down to 5 in the batlles and probably kill you more than just 1 time.
    The AI is dumber than white bread. Enemies even on the highest difficulty level will only be dangerous trough their superior numbers. FFS these idiots dont even flank you if they have the opportunity.
    And the bugs just break what was left of the good stuff.
    The most severe I have encountered prevented me from finishing the game and probably even corrupted several of my savefiles. (Google M14 subway crash bug if you want to know more)

    The story in this game is almost generic and your choices during the main quests have no actual consequences.
    Example: In 1 mission you have to get past the police to gather some evidence. But even if you dont kill or touch anyone your boss will still **** on you for murdering police officers.
    After 3h top you wont give a **** anmore, not even about yourself. The characters in this game are all completely replaceable. Some voices in this game are just cringeworthy.
    And the freedom of operating how you want is just an illusion. You will get 20 points, 40 top if you take out an enemy in stealth. But going in loud will reward you only with 20 points for every kill. Plus 10 maybe if you hit his head. At the end of the game stealth players probably will have 1 or 2 levels more than other players. Seriously dont buy this game. If you do wait 6 months once they fixed the majority of bugs and maybe fixed the performance. This game wasnt worth 50 bucks. It wasnt even worth the 35 I have paid to my north korean keytrader. Wait until its like 30 or 25 before you give it a shot. I would have given this game 4 points but since I can even play the last 25% cause of the said bug it will totaly get 3.
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  8. E71
    Aug 23, 2016
    1
    - Major performance issues.
    - Denuvo.
    - Day one DLCs.
    - Microtransactions (if it wasn't insulting enough, they're single use transactions!)
    - Bland story.
    - Grindy feel to the game (hence the microtransactions).
    - Gunfights still a mess.

    The list keeps growing. Move along people, nothing good to see here.
  9. Aug 24, 2016
    2
    Very disappointed. Love Deus Ex gaming world, but the corporate ideas keep ruining the game.
    First, it is a port, and PC should've been the main development platform, then port to consoles, ends up with better games for all involved.
    The huge issue though is when they try to insert micro-transactions into an offline, single-player game. This isn't a free-to-play, multiplayer, online
    Very disappointed. Love Deus Ex gaming world, but the corporate ideas keep ruining the game.
    First, it is a port, and PC should've been the main development platform, then port to consoles, ends up with better games for all involved.
    The huge issue though is when they try to insert micro-transactions into an offline, single-player game. This isn't a free-to-play, multiplayer, online game. I purchased it, it's mine to do with as I want. They messed up on the pre-order DLC and the way it was handled multiple times.
    They are far too greedy, the game was already way more expensive, for a mediocre console port, that tries to gouge more money out of you with micro-transactions and paying for non-existent future content.
    Save your money, wait a year until it's on sale, all content is available, and the bugs are fixed.
    Never pre-order, never pre-purchase future content that doesn't exist.
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  10. Aug 25, 2016
    0
    Got a refund on it almost immediately. I **** absolutely refuse to spend $60 on a AAA PC game and then be further nickled and dimed with day 1 DLC and microtransactions. **** I'm done with Deus Ex unless they make some serious changes in the next game.
  11. Aug 24, 2016
    2
    To be clear have bought and played this game (though I haven't finished it) so I've seen all this first hand.
    I'm writing a review early to warn potential buyers and to make a serious statement to Square Enix that their business practices are NOT OK
    Micro transactions are bad enough, but 1 use? For paid digital content that is simply ridiculous I find it hard now to review this game as
    To be clear have bought and played this game (though I haven't finished it) so I've seen all this first hand.
    I'm writing a review early to warn potential buyers and to make a serious statement to Square Enix that their business practices are NOT OK
    Micro transactions are bad enough, but 1 use? For paid digital content that is simply ridiculous I find it hard now to review this game as anything but a scam.
    Also putting a shop in the main menu of a single player campaign is just sleazy, how low are Square's expectations of their customers standards?
    Honestly the decent gameplay is just overshadowed by these factors so I stand by the fact that my review is a real statement on the product as a whole.
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  12. Aug 25, 2016
    0
    I literally just made this account on metacritic and have never even thought about writing a review for a game in my life. However the gaming industry has hit an all time low with this game.... I fear we will only see more micro-transactions in single player $60 games moving forward.
  13. Aug 26, 2016
    0
    As much as it bothers me to say it? The narrative just isn't there. I could tell from the advertising alone which went from the uplifting, artsy, philosophical, and augmented (heh) reality affair. It was in the aesthetic, which somehow made a modern clothes fashion out of something very Renaissance. It was clever. It was so clever. And everyone still talks about those marvelous ceilings.As much as it bothers me to say it? The narrative just isn't there. I could tell from the advertising alone which went from the uplifting, artsy, philosophical, and augmented (heh) reality affair. It was in the aesthetic, which somehow made a modern clothes fashion out of something very Renaissance. It was clever. It was so clever. And everyone still talks about those marvelous ceilings. What really glued the final experience together though was the narrative. Yes, the end was a little weak, but the experience as a whole was worthwhile.

    Mankind Divided, by comparison, is confused and cowardly. The first whiff I got of this was with its advertising campaign, which was decidedly unga bunga to appeal to a low-brow mainstream. I suppose Human Revolution didn't sell well enough, after all. So this Jensen is dragging his knuckles. It tries to be 'relevant' but it does this with base animal mimicry by aping Black Lives Matter instead of telling a story of its own. The comparison of augmentation with racism is disingenuous at best, not because there wouldn't be prejudice there, but it's such a gross misunderstanding of the type of prejudice. If they're trying to form an allegory about the prejudices people face, they need to look at ableism, not racism.

    It's a skeevy, craven little coward in how, unlike Human Revolution, it's too afraid to say anything about any of the issues it clumsily and ham-fistedly brings up. This is Deus Ex for stupid people. It's like they took Human Revolution, and fed it through an idiot filter. Out comes Mankind Divided.

    It's frustrating, because aside from the silly approach to its ending (which I suspect was due to deadlines and money)? Human Revolution was a very intelligent game with so much promise and potential, it was Deus Ex again for a younger audience, and one that hadn't been intellectually stunted just for the masses. Sadly, we're at the point now of what I feared Human Revolution would be. I guess it took a sequel for it to happen, and it really is a shame. Money talks more than artistic expression at EIDOS Montreal, I suppose. Which is impression I got from THI4F, too. And this is very much Deus Ex's THI4F.
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  14. Aug 24, 2016
    4
    Ta gra w ogóle nie powinna być wydana PC w obecnej postaci. Jak zwykle ostatnio twórcy zatrzymali się na etapie beta testów i przenieśli się w czasie o 6 miesięcy do przodu po czym wcisnęli magiczny czerwony przycisk z napisem "więcej kasy".
    Rozłamu ludzkości raczej nie będzie, jest za to kiepski port z brakiem optymalizacji i licznymi błędami. Nie tego oczekiwaliśmy. Kolejny raz gracze
    Ta gra w ogóle nie powinna być wydana PC w obecnej postaci. Jak zwykle ostatnio twórcy zatrzymali się na etapie beta testów i przenieśli się w czasie o 6 miesięcy do przodu po czym wcisnęli magiczny czerwony przycisk z napisem "więcej kasy".
    Rozłamu ludzkości raczej nie będzie, jest za to kiepski port z brakiem optymalizacji i licznymi błędami. Nie tego oczekiwaliśmy. Kolejny raz gracze komputerowi dostali produkt niedokończony, który na dobrą sprawę jest na etapie beta testów i nie powinien zostać wprowadzony do sprzedaży.
    Optymalizacji może i nie ma, no ale przynajmniej Denuvo jest. :)
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  15. Aug 27, 2016
    0
    This game still being alpha-tested by customers for their money! First level still not playable for me because of missing geometry. total crap. don't buy it.
  16. Aug 24, 2016
    0
    - Very bad graphics worst than Human Revolution..
    - Performance issues and bad optimization.
    - Almost boring story. - DLCs and Microtransactions day one REALLY? I pay full price for a game and I have to pay even more for other sh*t? GO TO HELL... - Nothing special about this game Human Revolution is the real deal not this crap. All in all Square Enix is getting worst and worst with
    - Very bad graphics worst than Human Revolution..
    - Performance issues and bad optimization.
    - Almost boring story.
    - DLCs and Microtransactions day one REALLY? I pay full price for a game and I have to pay even more for other sh*t? GO TO HELL...
    - Nothing special about this game Human Revolution is the real deal not this crap.

    All in all Square Enix is getting worst and worst with their quality and their greed is non stop just like other companies like EA and such. I would NOT buy anything this company makes any more unless they cut the Bullsh*t. They need to learn greedy bastards. I will not buy FF15 suck it Enix..
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  17. Dec 13, 2016
    1
    Wow. What an utter disappointment.
    I've been a Deus Ex fan since day one. I own physical and digital copies of the original. I even own The Fall (for what it's worth).
    Deus Ex Mankind Divided looks good, feels good, but there's little else underneath. You are faced with pivotal decisions...or at least decisions that seem pivotal, but it doesn't seem to make any difference which you
    Wow. What an utter disappointment.
    I've been a Deus Ex fan since day one. I own physical and digital copies of the original. I even own The Fall (for what it's worth).

    Deus Ex Mankind Divided looks good, feels good, but there's little else underneath.
    You are faced with pivotal decisions...or at least decisions that seem pivotal, but it doesn't seem to make any difference which you pick.
    The story is best told through the live-action trailer, which was just pure excellence. The story in game is vague and there's no underlying feeling of "mechanical apartheid" other than a sign here and there or a guy checking your papers. More of a minor inconvenience than an impact.
    The load screens are abysmal for a game of this spacial size.
    All of that, I can still handle since the gameplay is so much fun and so well done, with excellent leveling system, interesting augments, fun weapons and all kinds of different approaches to every area.

    What I cannot handle is an in-game store in an SP game, with once-use items. Regardless of it being used or not, it doesn't belong there.
    The story ends so abruptly that one can only assume it's to either sell the DLC or to prepare it for a sequel. Problem is that after this experience I have no interest in a sequel. At this stage even Invisible War is more memorable.
    In a way it feels like Eidos Montreal tried to succeed and Square Enix tried their best to cash grab.

    Deus Ex Mankind Divided is my biggest gaming buy regret of the year. Proof that pre-ordering really isn't worth it.
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  18. Aug 24, 2016
    0
    Will not support Day 1 DLC and microtransactions(especially 1 use microtransactions on a 60 dollar game). Tired of the game industry pushing them, and Mankind Divided is the worst so far.
  19. Sep 29, 2016
    0
    Deus ex MD in a nutshell:
    A.J. : Ok...I'm going after the real enemy now guys!
    THE END.
    WTF?
    One time use DLC with seasonal pass.
    Free DLC requires an account to be made with SE and is one time use.
    Never buying from Edios after 2 abominations in a row.
  20. Aug 26, 2016
    0
    I had heard about the DLC on release and savebound microtransactions. I tried to ignore those to simply enjoy the story and gameplay.
    After starting the game I am immediatly asked to register with Square Enix to get some free items. The money the publisher tries to grab with the DLC and microtransactions semm to be unsufficient, as they feel the need to sell my data too. I refused and
    I had heard about the DLC on release and savebound microtransactions. I tried to ignore those to simply enjoy the story and gameplay.
    After starting the game I am immediatly asked to register with Square Enix to get some free items. The money the publisher tries to grab with the DLC and microtransactions semm to be unsufficient, as they feel the need to sell my data too. I refused and started to play.
    After about two minutes into the first mission I discover the first hidden room. Expecting to find a little extra ammo oder something nice I instead find a chip that asks me to install an app on my phone and scan a code to recieve an item. Really, Square Enix?
    Needless to say that totally broke immersion, again. As someone who played the original Deus Ex on release I am NOT gonna sit there and play a game that breaks immersion every 30 minutes by asking me to register online, scan some code or buy additional credits with real money.
    I refunded the game and I refuse to buy from Square Enix ever again. Shame on you for treating Deus Ex like this and shame on you for treating your full price paying customers like this.
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  21. Aug 24, 2016
    0
    - pay to win singleplayer
    - horrible port
    - console port mouse
    - terrible performance
    - single use pre order bonus and DLC

    You dont **** it up! In AAA game mircro transaction Really ! Performance that terrible i rather refund than play this crap. Augs locked to seasson pass really ! Square Enrix just shown new level of shady crapy behavior to the customer
  22. Aug 26, 2016
    1
    The game keep crashing so I have to wait for a patch.
    I'm so angry I don't really care if it will come out or not.
    The graphics are laggy and this feels like one of these lazy bad console port. The story is ok though, nothing unusual, the same bland story that surprise you but does not makes you want to think about it that much. I like to play after work, gets things off my head,
    The game keep crashing so I have to wait for a patch.
    I'm so angry I don't really care if it will come out or not.
    The graphics are laggy and this feels like one of these lazy bad console port.

    The story is ok though, nothing unusual, the same bland story that surprise you but does not makes you want to think about it that much. I like to play after work, gets things off my head, really nice.
    Gameplay is fine too, it hinerits its predecessor, no big glitches, everything goes smoothly.

    Seeing the microtransaction menu piss me off though.
    Sure I don't HAVE to buy some extra Praxis, but I can't stand the fact that other people will fall for that trap.
    Get your **** together and don't you pull that trick ever again in a 50€ solo game.
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  23. Aug 24, 2016
    0
    Season Pass+ Microtransactions+ not very long for a rpg. Wait for the base game to drop to 20-30€, then it will be a fair price for the whole package
  24. Aug 24, 2016
    0
    For a game that looks like like it was made a decade ago it sure demands a lot from your computer which is just laughable. With those graphics, my 10 year old computer should be able to run the game at max so there is no excuse for these major performence issues. It should run as smooth as undertale does.

    Day one DLC and microtransactions in a single player game is another way for game
    For a game that looks like like it was made a decade ago it sure demands a lot from your computer which is just laughable. With those graphics, my 10 year old computer should be able to run the game at max so there is no excuse for these major performence issues. It should run as smooth as undertale does.

    Day one DLC and microtransactions in a single player game is another way for game companies to show no respect for gamers wallet, they want every dollar in there and then move on to every dollar in your bank account.
    You've already payed full price for the game, you should then have access to everything in the game, there should not be a single thing locked behind a payroll.
    It's a disgusting practice and should not be supported, Just for that reason alone is enough to not ever wanting to even look at this game.
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  25. Aug 26, 2016
    0
    This game crashed 10 times I've tried to play it. When you want to do more than 3 augmentations or you just walks over the level - it crashes! OMG! So poorly optimized videogame I haven't seen last 2 years!
  26. Aug 23, 2016
    0
    DLC in a single player game, and you can only use it one time because it is save locked? Thank goodness Steam lets you refund the game. Shame on you, SE
  27. Aug 24, 2016
    1
    Thank everything that's good for steam refunds.
    I may love the original game and liked the Human Revolution, but I also would not like to support companies with ingame stores in 50 euros singleplayer games, in fact in any singleplayer game.
  28. Aug 24, 2016
    1
    A Cult Franchise with great potential ruined by greedy marketing and business moves and wobbly port.

    - Undisclosed Denuvo DRM - Undisclosed Microtransactions in SIngle Player - Deceptive and misleading Advertisement (One use DLC's) - Story abruptly ends halfway in Game - Almost only glorified fetch Quests - No Bosses, except a one hit one at the End - Performance Issues and Bad
    A Cult Franchise with great potential ruined by greedy marketing and business moves and wobbly port.

    - Undisclosed Denuvo DRM
    - Undisclosed Microtransactions in SIngle Player
    - Deceptive and misleading Advertisement (One use DLC's)
    - Story abruptly ends halfway in Game
    - Almost only glorified fetch Quests
    - No Bosses, except a one hit one at the End
    - Performance Issues and Bad Optimization (Denuvo? Port?)
    - Disappointing Voice Acting
    - Disappointing Lip Sync
    - Tacked on Microtransaction infested Multiplayer
    - Unskippable Intros
    - Mouse Acceleration Issues
    - Miserable Season Pass (Only One-Time-Use-Microtransaction-Stuff, apart of 2 Missions)
    - A lot of CTD's and crashes almost everywhere

    They eventually even will get sued in US, EU, Canada, Australia by Consumer Protection because of the deceptive One-Time-Use DLC's. This could blow up in the next Weeks if they not fix it meanwhile.
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  29. kbx
    Aug 28, 2016
    3
    A lot of advanced and seriously sounding video options in the menu and..... medicore, dated, worth of year 2005-2007 graphics in the game. Totally wooden characters and animations. Performance... is this game running additional stress test program for cpu and gpu in the background during gamplay? AI... non existent. You can walk inches behing and side enemies and they cant spot you. ForA lot of advanced and seriously sounding video options in the menu and..... medicore, dated, worth of year 2005-2007 graphics in the game. Totally wooden characters and animations. Performance... is this game running additional stress test program for cpu and gpu in the background during gamplay? AI... non existent. You can walk inches behing and side enemies and they cant spot you. For comparison ... in 2007 Crysis koreans could spot you from long distance and instantly switch to "go and check" mode. Im a BIG fan of original deus ex for pc and games overall but look.... if we continue to accept this kind of "quality", make preorders and so on... as a gamers community we will hurt ourseleves very badly. Dont buy, if you bought make a refund... say no to medicority. Expand
  30. Aug 23, 2016
    0
    MICRO-TRANSACTIONS!!! Do not support this game, we don't want to encourage micro-transactions to take over in console or PC gaming.
    The game is also unforgivably short. 30 hours for all content and side quests. It is ridiculous. This game is dead to me.
  31. Aug 25, 2016
    0
    DLCs and Microtransactions....... bad graphics worst than Human Revolution...... very stupid story, do not buy this item. do not buy this item.do not buy this item.do not buy this item.do not buy this item.do not buy this item.
  32. Dec 28, 2016
    0
    AVOID AT ALL COSTS!!!

    This is one of the most underwhelming, disappointing, and boring games ever made. The plot of this garbage is unsatisfying and ordinary enough to have been a basic side quest of the first Deus Ex game. None of the characters are interesting, none of them have any depth in this humorless, linear, predictable, and plain world. To add insult to injury there also is no
    AVOID AT ALL COSTS!!!

    This is one of the most underwhelming, disappointing, and boring games ever made. The plot of this garbage is unsatisfying and ordinary enough to have been a basic side quest of the first Deus Ex game. None of the characters are interesting, none of them have any depth in this humorless, linear, predictable, and plain world. To add insult to injury there also is no closure in the end; the game has the audacity to conclude in a massive cliffhanger, as if anyone would want to buy the next installment after having experienced this unpleasantness.

    The gameplay itself is childish and offers absolutely no challenges: more than three quarters of all the usable items/weapons/augmentations are unnecessary for a complete playthrough on even the highest difficulties. In retrospect, the entire game can be beaten in less than 6 hours without killing a single person, not that there are moral consequences or anything.
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  33. Mar 20, 2017
    1
    Deus EX is my favorite game. Fantastic writing and gameplay.

    Pros + Storytelling + World Cons - Dialogue wheel, I prefer to see texts in sentences to select. - Inventory management for item combination is terrible. - Denuvo added, seriously Steam isn't enough that another layer of DRM has to be added? If Denuvo goes bankrupt and shuts down I lose this game that I
    Deus EX is my favorite game. Fantastic writing and gameplay.

    Pros

    + Storytelling

    + World

    Cons

    - Dialogue wheel, I prefer to see texts in sentences to select.

    - Inventory management for item combination is terrible.

    - Denuvo added, seriously Steam isn't enough that another layer of DRM has to be added? If Denuvo goes bankrupt and shuts down I lose this game that I purchased forever. Shame on the devs and pub for this, for the addition of Denuvo I have to rate this a 1, with the other 2 cons on top.
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  34. Oct 5, 2016
    4
    Loading, glitches, loading because of glitches, glitches because of loadings.... This game has some serious problems and it's a lot of times frustrating to have to load and wait 40s to 1 min to reload, mainly when you are trying to get the ghost achiviment in the mission or just into some really heavy fighthing... Besides of that, there are a lot of glitches and too many actions are takenLoading, glitches, loading because of glitches, glitches because of loadings.... This game has some serious problems and it's a lot of times frustrating to have to load and wait 40s to 1 min to reload, mainly when you are trying to get the ghost achiviment in the mission or just into some really heavy fighthing... Besides of that, there are a lot of glitches and too many actions are taken by the same buttons. So let's say that sometimes you are in the middle of a fight, has to reload, but ends up hacking that keyboard next to you when you hit the X buttom (Xbox One)...
    Also, store for a f***** single player?? How gready are you guys??
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  35. Jan 27, 2017
    3
    Terrible, interminable cut-scenes that seem to be more about the game developers frustrated Hollywood ambitions than the game itself. A boring main character, who is like a walking trope magnet. A universe that's about as subtle and realistic as He-Man. Micro transactions. What's to like?
  36. Sep 6, 2016
    1
    This is a terrible game. I mostly enjoyed Deus Ex HR, but literally couldn't continue this game after trying to enjoy it for 5 hours. I almost never quit games this early, but this is really a trash experience.

    In summary: The graphics are mediocre at best. The art design is uninspired and dated. The animations are embarrassingly bad. Everything about the movement feels clunky,
    This is a terrible game. I mostly enjoyed Deus Ex HR, but literally couldn't continue this game after trying to enjoy it for 5 hours. I almost never quit games this early, but this is really a trash experience.

    In summary:

    The graphics are mediocre at best. The art design is uninspired and dated. The animations are embarrassingly bad.

    Everything about the movement feels clunky, from the awkward climbing to the weird floaty sprint, to the unsatisfying and fiddly jumping, to the weird and disorienting one-second blackout before any melee combat takedown. Combat is awful. The enemies kill you within seconds if you don't strictly adhere to cover the whole time, and if you do the game just becomes a mediocre CBS with laughably piddly gun sound effects and uninteresting enemy AI.

    The story is truly pathetic. There's no real hook, no compelling characters, and the atrocious voice acting strangles an already below-average script.

    The game is littered with terrible design decisions. Making Bioenergy, the resource which lets you do all the things that are almost fun in the game (e.g. punch through walls, use SmartVision, do melee takedowns) a NON-RENEWABLE resource is a truly bizarre decision, meaning you're constantly walking around with the bare minimum energy, for fear of wasting the few biocells you've managed to buy from vendors (who then run out of them entirely). This essentially locks you into a low-power, low-fun mode for the vast majority of the game.

    The game seems to be designed to make you have as unpleasant an experience as possible, mostly by presenting you with either a direct route filled with enemies, or an arbitrary route filled with air vents and demolishable walls. I didn't feel satisfied or smart once in the 5 hours I played - it doesn't feel like you're solving a puzzle when by far the easiest solution is always to just tranquilise everyone from a ledge and watch as they stupidly don't understand what's going on.

    I don't even care about the whole DLC/microtransaction issue. This game is just terrible all on its own.
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  37. Sep 6, 2016
    2
    All this buildup, and you think you're about to begin Act II, or Act III if the scope is smaller than HR, then you get the "New Game +" and realize the game is over right when it was about to begin.

    90% of this game is waiting for the story to start, the last 10% is disappointment that it's over when it was about to begin. Human Revolution had a story that was clear. Characters that
    All this buildup, and you think you're about to begin Act II, or Act III if the scope is smaller than HR, then you get the "New Game +" and realize the game is over right when it was about to begin.

    90% of this game is waiting for the story to start, the last 10% is disappointment that it's over when it was about to begin.

    Human Revolution had a story that was clear. Characters that had depth. Plots, character archs, conclusions. This game is great as far as the tools from Human Revolution being fleshed out. The scope has been drastically shrunken down. DRASTICALLY smaller feeling than Deus Ex, and Deus Ex HR.

    The game is still better than any non-Deus Ex game, but basing the game on its own merits it falls short story wise. That is a main, actually, it's THE main part of Deus Ex that sets the series apart from the rest of the plebian games around.

    If you don't play good games you'll love this title.
    If you've played and really liked and held Deus Ex and Deus Ex HR high, then you'll be left with an empty feeling at the end.

    TLDR. 1 hub, unclear stories, unanswered quetions, Microtransaction blindside, and the game ending when it barely felt like it had started. Buy it if you want, but don't expect to feel whole at the end of it.

    Score Breakdown
    If the game was a full game and not 1/2 of a game then it woulds start at a 10 and go down from there depeding on the story quality, depth, logistics.
    5/10 for half a game

    Microtransactions in single player game, and a season pass that is a microtransaction with 1 time use items -3

    5 - 3 = 2 potential spoiled by Square Enix splitting dev team into 2 to charge for 2 games instead of 1 whole game. Followed by forced pay game Breach, and forcing devs to add microtransactions. Sad day for Deus Ex and the devs whose hard work was spoiled by Square Enix.
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  38. Sep 12, 2016
    0
    Money abused POS, the dlc is simply unacceptable, the multi endings (sarcasm) are another fail, and to pay for skill points is another awesome way to milk money from the gamers!
  39. Oct 15, 2016
    1
    Gave up less than 1 hour into the game. Very bad console port. Clumsy controls, uninteresting story.

    After playing the "Human Revolution" I had very high hopes for this game. Alas - it is complete junk.
  40. May 13, 2020
    2
    I play games to take away any anger and to relax. this game did the opposite.
    I started it feeling intrigued, I ended up shutting it off feeling enraged and irrationally violent.
    I don't know what the designer were thinking but they clearly had zero interest in introducing the character or the world or the gameplay in any sensible way. I have no idea who this guy is, what he does, what
    I play games to take away any anger and to relax. this game did the opposite.
    I started it feeling intrigued, I ended up shutting it off feeling enraged and irrationally violent.

    I don't know what the designer were thinking but they clearly had zero interest in introducing the character or the world or the gameplay in any sensible way. I have no idea who this guy is, what he does, what is important to him, why I should care about him, or the world he is in, or the things he does. I have zero lead in to learn how the game is structured, what the game style is, what the focus is, what i can do, how to do it, what are the advantages, disadvantages, etc.
    The director of this game needs to go back to school.

    I am not getting any gratification watching some soldier balk at me for 10 minutes and then drop me on a rooftop. this is the most sloppy and lazy introduction to a game that a designer can do.
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  41. Oct 5, 2016
    3
    10 points minus one for:
    Loading times
    DLC thieves
    Terrible weapons (like shooting thin air)
    Weapon management is a chore
    Basically you need to be able to hack computers and do stealth to beat the game best
    **** hacking mini-games
    Boring story line and endless **** cut scenes
  42. Sep 13, 2016
    0
    Major issues............................................................

    - Day one DLCs.
    - Microtransactions
    - Bland story.
    - Grindy feel to the game
  43. Jan 15, 2017
    0
    Оптимизация ужасная даже после патча она не стала хорошей за это ставлю нижшую оценку, пока мы будем хавать не до деланные игры разработчики и дальше будут наплевательски к нам относиться, зачем делать игру как нужно если и так с хавают. Предлагаю всем игрокам сразу ставить минусы таким ужасно отимизированым играм и возвращать себе деньги в стиме нужно наказывать таких разработчиков рублемОптимизация ужасная даже после патча она не стала хорошей за это ставлю нижшую оценку, пока мы будем хавать не до деланные игры разработчики и дальше будут наплевательски к нам относиться, зачем делать игру как нужно если и так с хавают. Предлагаю всем игрокам сразу ставить минусы таким ужасно отимизированым играм и возвращать себе деньги в стиме нужно наказывать таких разработчиков рублем и низкими оценками за их халтуру Expand
  44. Apr 19, 2017
    3
    Full priced AAA game with micro-transactions. Avoid!! Yes, they are not "needed"... that's a load of bull... You paid full price you should get a full game, and improve as you're supposed to... by playing the actual game!!! -10 to the greedy idiot that had this idea on a full priced game... I was also gonna pre order FF XV... better not... until i'm sure they don't pull this kind of bull... again
  45. Dec 9, 2016
    2
    Prague is amazing and the game shows immense promise but it is hugely broken. Objects clip through the floor and, even though it was already an already unstable game, each update has made it more buggy. Random crashes all over the place.
  46. Oct 1, 2016
    4
    I loved the DeusEx series but this will be another forgotten one with it weak story and dated game play.

    DLC and micro-transactions are a joke, please fire those marketing executives. Mod support, where is it?! they officially endorsed a Dx1 mod called revisions and then left out any chance for the community to fix the issues we have with this game!. I give up with square, they've
    I loved the DeusEx series but this will be another forgotten one with it weak story and dated game play.

    DLC and micro-transactions are a joke, please fire those marketing executives.

    Mod support, where is it?! they officially endorsed a Dx1 mod called revisions and then left out any chance for the community to fix the issues we have with this game!.

    I give up with square, they've successfully ruined it, I'm going to go and be a cyberpunk2077 fanboy instead.
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  47. Jan 7, 2017
    0
    Terrible controls. Terrible tutorials. Progression to slow. Graphics look dated. Story is uninteresting. Hacking is not fun. Microtransactions suck. No love went into this game. Just another assembly line game. Awefull game overall.
  48. Sep 10, 2016
    1
    Micro-transactions in a single-player game + the game is cuted for dlc content/sequel.It can be as good as it wants to be a scam is still a scam.This type of corporate crap is what makes piracy grow
  49. Sep 3, 2016
    3
    This is an incomplete, buggy game. Some of the side quests do shine and the game play is very fun when it works. That said:

    * horrible control scheme * broken save system (literally - people can't save their game and lose hours of time). I have to manually delete old save files or the game begins to corrupt any save files I try to overwrite and won't create new ones * unavoidable
    This is an incomplete, buggy game. Some of the side quests do shine and the game play is very fun when it works. That said:

    * horrible control scheme
    * broken save system (literally - people can't save their game and lose hours of time). I have to manually delete old save files or the game begins to corrupt any save files I try to overwrite and won't create new ones
    * unavoidable crashes at several places in the game that prevent progression,
    * one-time use micro transactions
    * a story that moves the plot about 1cm forward and ignores most of the characters / plot threads from Human Revolution

    I could go on, but I already feel like I've wasted enough of my time and money on this game. The issues overshadow any positive aspects the game has. The planned DLC isn't going to be incorporated into the story and instead will be standalone missions. I was super excited for this game and looked forward to it for 5 years, now I just feel sad to see what Square Enix has done to one of my favorite franchises.
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  50. Dec 12, 2016
    3
    I'll not even speak about technical problems of DX:MD. They're obvious.

    They completely ruined the message of original Deus Ex. Mass augmentations? Ridiculous, if you ask me. The first game was based on this, real world. Not the fictional one, like DX:HR and DX:MD. The first game was about people and their real problems and not fictional, anime-styled "augs vs normal people". Any
    I'll not even speak about technical problems of DX:MD. They're obvious.

    They completely ruined the message of original Deus Ex. Mass augmentations? Ridiculous, if you ask me.

    The first game was based on this, real world. Not the fictional one, like DX:HR and DX:MD. The first game was about people and their real problems and not fictional, anime-styled "augs vs normal people". Any mention of real life politicians, bankers etc was also carefully erased from this one.

    Silly and hollow game. Highly recommended for fans of Metal Gear Solid and similar japanese crap.
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  51. Jun 27, 2019
    4
    After I played Metro Exodus I could not play this game ... It is neither RPG nor FPS ... It is a confusing game, in summary it is a very bad game ...
  52. Jun 20, 2020
    3
    "Consolización" de juegos de PC.

    La anterior entrega, Human Revolution, ya me pareció muy sobrevalorado, era un juego muy inferior al Deus Ex original, un juego demasiado lineal para llevar el nombre de esa franquicia y con errores de diseño muy habituales en los juegos modernos como los ataques semiautomaticos o los qte, además del pésimo diseño de los combates contra los jefes. Pues
    "Consolización" de juegos de PC.

    La anterior entrega, Human Revolution, ya me pareció muy sobrevalorado, era un juego muy inferior al Deus Ex original, un juego demasiado lineal para llevar el nombre de esa franquicia y con errores de diseño muy habituales en los juegos modernos como los ataques semiautomaticos o los qte, además del pésimo diseño de los combates contra los jefes. Pues bien, Mankind Divided no mejora nada de eso, el apartado jugable está mal diseñado y claramente centrado en el control con mando de consola ("consolización" de juegos de PC) y es aún peor en la historia y los personajes (que tampoco eran demasiado buenos en HR), por eso queda un juego muy mediocre. Muchos han centrado su crítica en que es una estafa llena de DLC o que el juego tiene muchos bugs, todo eso es cierto, pero si no los tuviera seguiría siendo un juego mediocre. 3/5.
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  53. Mar 24, 2022
    2
    How can anyone like this game? The story is messy and boring. The first mission is like you started in the middle of the game. The hub is crap. The stealth sucks. The only thing good about it is that I spent €4 on it which is already too much.
  54. Sep 27, 2021
    3
    Что это за игра? это спин офф Watch Dogs??

    Порт на пк отвратительный я даже не знаю как объяснить, что происходит на экране...эта графика одновременно лучше чем Deus Ex: Human Revolution и в то же время омерзительна. Сложно понять что я вижу иногда даже в плотную. Перепробовал все ползунки настройки графики, но так и не нашел ни баланса, ни приятной глазу графики. На что ушел безумный
    Что это за игра? это спин офф Watch Dogs??

    Порт на пк отвратительный я даже не знаю как объяснить, что происходит на экране...эта графика одновременно лучше чем Deus Ex: Human Revolution и в то же время омерзительна. Сложно понять что я вижу иногда даже в плотную. Перепробовал все ползунки настройки графики, но так и не нашел ни баланса, ни приятной глазу графики. На что ушел безумный бюджет в 70 миллионов канадских долларов?

    Звук в игре ужасен я слышу как храпит какой нибудь бомж за 100 метров от меня будто он у меня под ухом и каждый человек или машина в игре орут мне под ухо, но не Адам Дженсен который в каждой сцене говорит исключительно шепотом, что это вообще такое???

    Физика в игре в разы хуже чем в Deus Ex: Human Revolution это заметно в самой первой миссии в Дубае. После сцены оглушения врагов они взлетают, улетаю в разные стороны. Сам Дженсен будто передвигается не на своих двух, а на роликах или может быть коньках. Прошлой части можно было простить отсутствие ног, когда смотришь вниз, но с таким неприличным бюджетом неужели нельзя было этого сделать?

    Если проблемы, что я описал выше не дают тебе насладится игрой, то атмосфера полностью убивает желание играть дальше. В прошлой части погружение в игру происходило практически моментально, а тут даже за 6ч игры ничего подобного не произошло и каждую минуту проведенную в игре я всё больше хотел вернутся в прошлую часть и пройти её ещё раз.

    Очевидно, что из игры пытались сделать сервис. В игре есть какой-то магазин, тебя просят скачать какое-то мобильное приложения для данной игры которая к слову уже с позором удалили со всех площадок, Идея о игре-сервис с бесконечными продолжениями высосанных из пальца провалилась с треском, что не может не радовать.
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  55. Mar 2, 2022
    1
    The worst start to the game in all history of gaming. How to ruin a franchise 101.
  56. Aug 27, 2016
    2
    This game , seriously... the gameplay and sidequest are some good things about this game that's why i'll give it 2.
    But what the actual **** is that main story. it is equivalent to human revolutions first chapter. just when you expect things to get serious you fight a random subvilain and BAAAM curtains down.
    This is the biggest let down in video games since watch dog. This game isnt
    This game , seriously... the gameplay and sidequest are some good things about this game that's why i'll give it 2.
    But what the actual **** is that main story. it is equivalent to human revolutions first chapter. just when you expect things to get serious you fight a random subvilain and BAAAM curtains down.
    This is the biggest let down in video games since watch dog.
    This game isnt even half a game its just a prequel to some upcoming **** of god know what from dlcs to marketing sequels.
    Just call it deus ex - ground zero like the zero they ****ing deserve.
    i really can't understand how people are able to give this game a good rating when this game is nothing but 60dollars stepping stone just look at the last cinematique .
    And what the **** do you mean but your choices matter , oh really eliza speak of them in the news , great i feel 100times more important.
    ****ty graphics this game isn't a new gen game , disastrous performance on high spec .

    So let me put this straight in the last five years you spent creating the game you achieved :
    -better gameplay
    -better sidequests (we are talking about 10 of them)
    -moderatly good city hub

    But you failed to upgrade your graphics , create a good story , and finish the ****ing game.
    whether you chose not to or you couldnt finish, this is unacceptable.

    i finished this game in 20 hours (all side quests possible and a little of exploration) 5 of these hours spent in the metro with the incredible long wait time to get from zone to zone.

    and i still dont get why they did the 2 districts instead of one exept for boosting the on paper play time.
    Plus the marketing scandals of the day 1 dlc , the preorder and mircrotransaction isn't something that really surprised me , as i'd always know square enix as being first grade **** .
    I bought the game +season pass for 70 dollars dont make the same mistake i did , and dont buy this pilot episode
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  57. Aug 27, 2016
    3
    Starts out with something which promises to be fun exploring and overcoming several seemingly difficult obstacles in order to discover loot and fun quests and turns out to be a mostly repetitive and very dull game, filled with absolutely bland characters, weak plot and generic mediocre quests... If you are a fan of the first Deus Ex and are looking for an experience which will let youStarts out with something which promises to be fun exploring and overcoming several seemingly difficult obstacles in order to discover loot and fun quests and turns out to be a mostly repetitive and very dull game, filled with absolutely bland characters, weak plot and generic mediocre quests... If you are a fan of the first Deus Ex and are looking for an experience which will let you relive the fun you had with the original, this is not worth picking up.
    Personally much disappointed with what this game turned out to be, could be fun for someone looking for a generic stealth action game when it's on a sale for 10$
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  58. Sep 5, 2016
    4
    Game's Graphics look good, Game world seems strange, blocky and small, like the Human Revolution,
    Gameplay is clunky and exactly like the original Human Revolution, movement mechanics are hampered by clipping issues, and terrain snags off of changes in terrain/texture, show how badly coded the movement mechanics are, its shooter mechanics seem clunky and basic. This game feels more like
    Game's Graphics look good, Game world seems strange, blocky and small, like the Human Revolution,
    Gameplay is clunky and exactly like the original Human Revolution, movement mechanics are hampered by clipping issues, and terrain snags off of changes in terrain/texture, show how badly coded the movement mechanics are, its shooter mechanics seem clunky and basic. This game feels more like an expansion of Human Revolution, than an entirely new game. The atmosphere is disjointed and unimmersive, from a character perspective, yes the lore is there but that is it. This is a far cry from what this game could have been and what I had hoped this game would be. 4 out of 10 for the graphics, the fact that it is Deus Ex which we needed more of but it fails to deliver, anything beyond the 2011 Human revolution, I dare say that HR is still the better game.
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  59. Aug 29, 2016
    0
    I can pretty much copy and paste the other negative reviews. Since i don't need to add anything to it.

    - Major performance issues.
    - Denuvo.
    - Day one DLCs.
    - Microtransactions (if it wasn't insulting enough, they're single use transactions!)
    - Bland story.
    - Grindy feel to the game (hence the microtransactions).
  60. Aug 27, 2016
    0
    Hiding micro-transactions from pre-release reviewers is unethical, and releasing a product with numerous game-breaking bugs is disgusting. Yet, the true crime here is that this game is BORING. This AAA game gets an F! Spend your money on something else.
  61. Sep 28, 2016
    4
    I finished the game.
    Don't listen to all the angry kids it isn't a pay-to-win at all, microtransactions are even pointless.
    The PC is a SHAME FOR THIS STUDIO, the graphics are cool and better than human revolution though. The main problem is : 20hourrs compared to the 40s of Human revolution then DLC day 1 ? Metacritic how the hell this game could obtain 83 ?? The whole deus ex
    I finished the game.
    Don't listen to all the angry kids it isn't a pay-to-win at all, microtransactions are even pointless.

    The PC is a SHAME FOR THIS STUDIO, the graphics are cool and better than human revolution though.

    The main problem is : 20hourrs compared to the 40s of Human revolution then DLC day 1 ? Metacritic how the hell this game could obtain 83 ??

    The whole deus ex universe is there but it should be sold half the price because it's ot a full game but half of the story. again, Shame on that studio
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  62. Aug 30, 2016
    0
    - Awful performancedue to zero opimization
    - Denuvo DRM
    - Day one DLC which was falsely advertised as per game and not once-per-save-game
    - Deceitful lying false advertisements microtransactions for a single player game
  63. Aug 31, 2016
    0
    Absolute and total rubbish. Just like any "AAA" game. As idiots keep buying this stuff, they keep pushing the boundaries and laughing out loud with your green in their pockets. Single use microtransactions now. Really ? And in an single player campaign to boot. Hah, what will they think of next. Who still buys this **** ?
  64. Aug 31, 2016
    0
    Poorly optimized for PC, forced mouse acceleration, how can a studio do Human Revolution on the PC so well yet mess up the sequel so badly. Buy it on sale only after they patch this damn thing.
  65. Sep 1, 2016
    3
    If anyone here introduces a totalitarian behavior - it's you Square Enix, Canada.

    Já jsem z České Republiky, takže se mi nelíbí jak je prezentována naše země. To by se nelíbilo asi nikomu, jak se komolí názvy, jak se špatně vyslovují slova, jak je naše hlavní město prezentováno jako nějaký totalitní stát. Když nedokáží ani jednoduché názvy správně napsat, a většina postav mluví s
    If anyone here introduces a totalitarian behavior - it's you Square Enix, Canada.

    Já jsem z České Republiky, takže se mi nelíbí jak je prezentována naše země.
    To by se nelíbilo asi nikomu, jak se komolí názvy, jak se špatně vyslovují slova, jak je naše hlavní město prezentováno jako nějaký totalitní stát.
    Když nedokáží ani jednoduché názvy správně napsat, a většina postav mluví s Ruským přízvukem!Je to spíš výsměch České Republice a všem hráčům od nás!

    Prošli jsme si totalitou fašistickou, s okupací od Hitlerova Německa už v roce 1939!
    Desetitisíce lidí byly odvlečeny do koncentračních táborů, byla vyhlazena celá obec LIDICE.
    A pak i vnucenou totalitou komunistickou s okupací v roce 1968!
    Na což asi nějak autoři pozapomenuli, na protest proti okupaci se upálil Jan Palach a další.

    To, že jsme si tímto vším prošli, neznamená že jsme dobré místo pro nějaké další pokusy, to je vyslovený cynismus a neuznání našich obětí. Je to plivnutí do tváře všem dotčeným rodinám a národu.

    Příště ať si autoři zasadí děj do Vancouveru, a udělají si tam vlastní totalitní stát!
    Nebo příště mohou udělat hru jak na pláži Juno v Normandii umírají hadroví panáčci, padají jak domino, a křičí: „Hepl“ „i watn to liv“. Bude to vtipné? Zábavné? Bude to povzbuzující?

    Ale tak do malého se snadno strefuje, malí málo křičí, a malí nikoho nezajímají, přijdeme k nim vykrademe jejich města, duši, lidi, a pak z nich uděláme nějaký hnus. Klasika. Jak se u nás chovají vaše korporace - pracoval jsem v Kanadské firmě, a ta se tvrdě bránila vzniku odborů, až u soudu.
    Co to jste za hnusné pokritce!?
    Využít nás celé od hlavy k patě, jako nějaké otroky.. a pak si z nás ještě dělat legraci a pokusné hry.
    Jestli tady někdo zavádí totalitní chování - jste to vy.

    Vaši hru mám chuť vyhodit, i když jsem si ji koupil.
    Děkuji za příjemný zážitek.
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  66. Aug 26, 2016
    4
    I want to like this game, I really do...

    But I am getting stuttering and framerate lag and can't play the game. I am using a Fury X GPU, and I can't even get a stable performance on low quality. Terrible optimization.
  67. Aug 29, 2016
    0
    I've waited a long time for this title to come, in fact I was a huge fan of Deus Ex since the very first game.
    I can live with the fact the game was launched poorly optimized, but the fact that this game comes with microtransactions disgust me so much that Deus Ex is dead for me. I can' t support a game that has full price with microtransactions inside.
  68. Nov 19, 2016
    4
    The story is ok
    The world is fine.
    The engine is complete **** It doesnt run well on any hardware and there are still so many crashes that it is unplayable.
    Dont buy it, even on sale
  69. May 31, 2018
    3
    A step down in nearly every way over Human Revolution. I knew it would be bad because of what I had heard from fellow gamers, but playing it for myself was incrediblly awful. I could never have imagined it would be this much worse than the previous entry. It may be a good thing they are never making anymore of these. Epic Fail.
  70. Feb 27, 2020
    2
    Bad story, bad AI, not compelling, just a waste of money and time, don't bother
  71. Mar 31, 2022
    0
    Tried this game 4 times, crashed 4 times. Could be the pc port. But 4 out of 4 crashes after 30 minutes of playing. Nah
  72. Aug 29, 2016
    3
    The ugly story that does not move the story of the game world , the hero of a single step . Two final selection killed my every desire is not something that pereprohodit , and even run this hack . Why do something to choose or do in an RPG where no consequences ? Why do we play in this?
  73. Aug 26, 2016
    1
    - square enix employees ( guys who tested the game maybe only for 10 min or less ) eyes cant recognize the fps between 60, +60 , below 60 , and 30 fps !

    - square enix employees ( guys who tested the game maybe only for 10 min or less ) needs get up from his/her consoles and play more PC GAMES and its really Necessary for them that working , managing , designing and ... on a pc video
    - square enix employees ( guys who tested the game maybe only for 10 min or less ) eyes cant recognize the fps between 60, +60 , below 60 , and 30 fps !

    - square enix employees ( guys who tested the game maybe only for 10 min or less ) needs get up from his/her consoles and play more PC GAMES and its really Necessary for them that working , managing , designing and ... on a pc video games !

    - maybe you only have an old potato pc for testing your games in your hand and its time to build a new one and test your games on it , so please change the games system recommended to that your old potato hardware like pentium dual core 1.7 ghz + 750 ti and 4G memory and its enough for running your game for 30fps only or below , and forget about gtx 970 , 980 , 1080 , 6700k , and other hardwares cause maybe u think those are ll be ok and ll runs the game solid +60 and dont needs to try test on it !
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  74. Aug 31, 2016
    0
    Fantastic game. Everything about it is just great. Take your time and really explore every locale. It's worth it. Everything in this game is well made and expertly put together.

    Anyway I came here to say to heck with you square enix, and to heck with your **** DLC/microtransaction practices.
  75. Dec 21, 2016
    0
    I loved the last Deus Ex. I haven't played this game, but I've read dozens of reviews now. Microtransactions? Installing apps to your phone and scanning things in game? Selling your data? No thanks. I can't support this and will fight to lower the score as far as it can go.
  76. Sep 15, 2016
    0
    Stupidest microtrans system ever. Got refund after noticing it had microtrans when reviews said it didn't. Would buy the game again for full price if they removed them but as is Ill play the ware version of press release without microtrans until I can get it for 5$. Without microtrans would give 9/10 and it would be my game of the year so far but as is with all the immersion breakingStupidest microtrans system ever. Got refund after noticing it had microtrans when reviews said it didn't. Would buy the game again for full price if they removed them but as is Ill play the ware version of press release without microtrans until I can get it for 5$. Without microtrans would give 9/10 and it would be my game of the year so far but as is with all the immersion breaking microtrans have to give a 0. Hope they fire everyone who thought this was a good idea. Expand
  77. Sep 21, 2018
    0
    Starts off with the usual, shooting bad guys, but you have almost no ammo? Then you're walking around Prague, and there aren't even any bars, which is highly unusual for Prague. You can scale buildings, which goes unnoticed by the many police officers, and steal beer from fridges? You're a badass AUG and walking is most of the action you get. I bailed when I needed a keycard to get into aStarts off with the usual, shooting bad guys, but you have almost no ammo? Then you're walking around Prague, and there aren't even any bars, which is highly unusual for Prague. You can scale buildings, which goes unnoticed by the many police officers, and steal beer from fridges? You're a badass AUG and walking is most of the action you get. I bailed when I needed a keycard to get into a room. This is not an action game, its a lame RPG. Expand
  78. Sep 16, 2016
    0
    The game is a polished finished and complete product. The storyline is great (30 hours in right now), plenty of side quests that feel like they have meaning and consequences, amazing cast of memorable characters and a TON of exploration to do. The levels and areas are completely non-linear, you can get to your objective in a couple of different ways at least, same for dealing with enemies.The game is a polished finished and complete product. The storyline is great (30 hours in right now), plenty of side quests that feel like they have meaning and consequences, amazing cast of memorable characters and a TON of exploration to do. The levels and areas are completely non-linear, you can get to your objective in a couple of different ways at least, same for dealing with enemies.

    Since I'm a cyberpunk fan, I was completely hooked after the first hour of playing. Music, location style and design. There are so many things that got done right with this game.
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  79. Jun 26, 2022
    4
    The game felt flat compared to Deus Ex and Deus Ex HR. I HATED the fact that I got stuck with this Very White Character and not have the option to customise his appearance like in Deus Ex and Deus Ex Invisible war.

    The game seemed to take away my agency as Player and planted me in this dismal city and totally unfamiliar enviroment. Moreover when I solved and pieced together things
    The game felt flat compared to Deus Ex and Deus Ex HR. I HATED the fact that I got stuck with this Very White Character and not have the option to customise his appearance like in Deus Ex and Deus Ex Invisible war.

    The game seemed to take away my agency as Player and planted me in this dismal city and totally unfamiliar enviroment. Moreover when I solved and pieced together things before an event I was STILL forced to go threw reading the terminal message and go through the event. The game in several belittle a good players ability to figure out things on their own, unlike in Original Deus Ex

    Very dissapointed
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  80. Dec 29, 2018
    2
    This game is great if you like sneaking around like a wiener. Playing a lame hacking game that is a pain in the butt and requires you to reload your game constantly if you fail or you get swamped by people blasting you in the face. Not a big deal except loading takes forever.

    Honestly not even worth the $5 i paid for it.

    Graphics, story, and music seem amazing, but the gameplay is trash.
  81. May 31, 2022
    1
    Kaкая плoxaя и неинтepecная игра, графика на 360 прошло игры но не вышла на 360, в игре нет ничего нового и интересного что сделало бы ее лучше прошлой игры, игра с кучей глюков и недоработок.
    длс, ты купил нашу игру но нам мало денег купи еще длс, задонать купи улучшение
    Kaкая плoxaя и неинтepecная игра, графика на 360 прошло игры но не вышла на 360, в игре нет ничего нового и интересного что сделало бы ее лучше прошлой игры, игра с кучей глюков и недоработок.
    длс, ты купил нашу игру но нам мало денег купи еще длс, задонать купи улучшение
  82. May 26, 2017
    4
    Pros:
    + Objects Graphics are really detailed.
    + Weapons design are cool with some upgradable Specs. Cons: - Character's graphics are horrible (PS3 graphics alike). - Attachments are not able for all weapons. Why does suppressor make weapons weaker? - The content is terrible by the glitch or OVERCLOCK game's effects. - The game's audios are bad, too hard to hear even with headphone.
    Pros:
    + Objects Graphics are really detailed.
    + Weapons design are cool with some upgradable Specs.
    Cons:
    - Character's graphics are horrible (PS3 graphics alike).
    - Attachments are not able for all weapons. Why does suppressor make weapons weaker?
    - The content is terrible by the glitch or OVERCLOCK game's effects.
    - The game's audios are bad, too hard to hear even with headphone.
    - DE:MD is not made for low and mid-range PC. The world in game is much smaller than Batman Arkham Knight but take too much PC's system resource.
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  83. Feb 12, 2023
    0
    Wow what a giant hunk of garbage! How could any studio allow this piece of crap to be released? It cannot run at max settings on hardware that is top tier even 7 years after it's original release date. The map/nav is horiffic. Guides you completely to the wrong location and is utterly confusing. Even the give me a story (Easy) difficulty has you dying within 2 hits of any weapon. UtterlyWow what a giant hunk of garbage! How could any studio allow this piece of crap to be released? It cannot run at max settings on hardware that is top tier even 7 years after it's original release date. The map/nav is horiffic. Guides you completely to the wrong location and is utterly confusing. Even the give me a story (Easy) difficulty has you dying within 2 hits of any weapon. Utterly a complete piece of trash and fails to achieve any of the good marks from other games in the series. Expand
Metascore
83

Generally favorable reviews - based on 56 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 48 out of 56
  2. Negative: 0 out of 56
  1. Feb 10, 2017
    90
    Mankind Divided rewards exploration and respects your choices throughout its hefty campaign. The city of Prague is absolutely amazing with great details and visuals. The gameplay is also exactly what you expect from a Deus Ex game.
  2. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Nov 7, 2016
    80
    There is almost nothing you can complain about regarding the Mankind Divided gameplay. To achieve a greater score new Deus Ex lacks a better story and the possibility to "turn off" Czech language. [Issue#267]
  3. Oct 14, 2016
    70
    Despite the "Can't stop the progress" tagline, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is pretty much a rehash of the previous game.