I’m the world’s most cautious cyborg superhero, reconnoitering at a glacial pace, ghosting my way through a world of elaborate tactical puzzles with exquisite multi-path resolutions. I need these to unlock doors and computers, to disable security cameras, gun turrets and homicidal security robots.
I’m hunting for passwords and PINs stored on strangely hip-again PDAs or carelessly dropped in emails. Instead of gunning down adversaries, I’m cautiously sweeping buildings, flats and back alley bric-a-brac for story flavor ebooks and digital news rags about this near-future dystopia. But that’s not what’s interesting about it. To make me want to linger over inches of screen space, trawling for painkillers, grenades, EMP bullets, and upgrades to my tweaked out wetware.Įidos Montreal’s cyberpunk roleplaying game for PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, out August 23, has its obligatory action box.
It turns out Deus Ex: Mankind Divided‘s disruptive maneuver isn’t just to render me superhumanly flexible, but to slow me to a crawl.
