Deus Ex: Mankind Divided Designer Talks New Features and Augments

Eidos Montreal designer Antoine Thisdale has spoken to Shacknews about Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, which is a "far more dangerous" world than the one seen in Human Revolution.

Protagonist Adam Jensen needs even more powerful augments than before, as the world of Mankind Divided has dissolved into chaos. 

"It takes place roughly two years after Human Revolution," Thisdale commented. "The world has gone completely insane crazy over the aug incidents. Spoilers: At the end of Human Revolution, there's a big aug incident where people go crazy and, because they are augmented, they start killing people, killing themselves, and it's really bad. So two years later, everybody is scared of augmentations.

"This is where we enter the 'mechanical apartheid' part of the story," he continued. "There's a very big segregation of who's augmented and who isn't. So legislations and votes are going to force people to have a license, a different passport, and be clearly identified as augmented, because they are dangerous. Adam Jensen is still there, of course, but he's moved on from security and joined a special task force that is pretty much working internationally to fight terrorism and all the contrabands and all the stuff going on under their radar about guns and augmentations.

"And he's, of course, trying to find answers, because of all the events that took place during Human Revolution, Mankind Divided is this moment where there's clearly someone in control. They want to achieve something and Jensen won't take part of it. He wants to stop it."

In the game Jensen joins Interpol to track down rogue augmented individuals. Set two years after the events of Human Revolution, the game sees augmented people forced to live their lives segregated from the rest of society. 

One of the new augments is the Titan, which enhances armour, while existing augments will see significant improvements. Others will come with new abilities, such as a non-lethal version of the Typhoon augment. Thisdale hopes players will be encouraged to use a range of different augments to advance.

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided launches February 23rd, 2016 for PC, PS4, and Xbox One.