One of the greatest tragedies of gaming is that this game will never get the sequel it needed.
The immaculate atmosphere and soundtrack return from Human Revolution and the stealth-action gameplay is the best it's ever been. Prague is a wonderfully detailed and dense hub and developers could really learn from it instead of making everything open world. The side missions are just as good as the main story missions and really make you explore all of Prague. The graphics are also spectacular even now. This is one of the most incredible looking games I've ever played.
Unfortunately this time around the story isn't quite as captivating. It attempts to capitalize on the real life social issues that were happening when the game came out, but the clunky writing makes the racism allegory a bit ham-fisted and gives the impression that the writers weren't confident enough in the game's own world. And once again, augmentation is the only issue that's ever on anyone's mind.
Adam Jensen also doesn't really carry the story on his own and needs other characters to bounce off of. One of my favourite parts of Human Revolution was interacting with Pritchard and Malik, but in Mankind Divided the only ally filling their role appears a mere handful of times and just isn't quite the same.
The story does technically have an ending, but it's rather unsatisfying as your job isn't really done. There's clearly still more to unravel, but sadly it looks like we're never getting the answers and this will be Adam's swan song. A tragedy indeed.
The immaculate atmosphere and soundtrack return from Human Revolution and the stealth-action gameplay is the best it's ever been. Prague is a wonderfully detailed and dense hub and developers could really learn from it instead of making everything open world. The side missions are just as good as the main story missions and really make you explore all of Prague. The graphics are also spectacular even now. This is one of the most incredible looking games I've ever played.
Unfortunately this time around the story isn't quite as captivating. It attempts to capitalize on the real life social issues that were happening when the game came out, but the clunky writing makes the racism allegory a bit ham-fisted and gives the impression that the writers weren't confident enough in the game's own world. And once again, augmentation is the only issue that's ever on anyone's mind.
Adam Jensen also doesn't really carry the story on his own and needs other characters to bounce off of. One of my favourite parts of Human Revolution was interacting with Pritchard and Malik, but in Mankind Divided the only ally filling their role appears a mere handful of times and just isn't quite the same.
The story does technically have an ending, but it's rather unsatisfying as your job isn't really done. There's clearly still more to unravel, but sadly it looks like we're never getting the answers and this will be Adam's swan song. A tragedy indeed.