Surprisingly fun and polished. The sheer amount of possible content combinations (buildings, buffs, biomes, races, etc.) make it extremely repayable. On top of that I haven't seem anything THAT chill and relaxing in a looong time.
This game is not perfect but it if you like that kind of games, it's a bull's eye. I love cRPG games. I love stealth games. I love dystopian science fiction. I love games with story that makes you like "I just NEED to unravel all these things". A fair score for Deus Ex: Mankind Divided would be like 7/10. Add 1 if you like Deus Ex series. I do. Add 1 if you like stealth games. I do. (although stealth is just one of many ways of playing DX:HR). Add 1 if you like a good dystopian science-fiction. I do. For me personally it's 10/10, despite some flaws. Biggest of them is that the game story-wise feels like a demo. Sure, the story is good, but there are HUNDREDS of small things and leftovers showing that what we see is probably about 50-60% of what this game was initially designed. There are so many characters, items, places, dialogues, plots, even quests - that feel like "oh my God this is sooo great, where do I move this plot forward? wait what, no, please, no, don't tell me there is nothing more here about that plot..." :( Anyway, when I played this game it was a great experience. It's Deus Ex: Human Revolution improved in nearly all possible ways, except the lenghth and richness of the story. Oh - and let's keep in mind that the game was sabotaged by the publisher, Square Enix. They hurried it's release (forcing cuts in the game's content and story), forced micro-transactions in a single-player game (which made an extremely bad PR on launch) and forced use of Denuvo (which was the sole reason I didn't buy the game before - only now on GoG DRM free release). On top of that these noobs at Square Enix blame everyone but not themselves for "disappointing income" from this game and instead of taking lesson and releasing a sequel, they froze the whole Deus Ex series... Seriously, that's a clear sabotage for me.
I love cRPG games. I love stealth games. I love dystopian science fiction. I love games with story that makes you like "I just NEED to unravel all these things". Before playing Deus Ex: Human Revolution I barely heard of the Deux Ex series. After DX:HR I became a great fan of it. Deus Ex: Human Revolution is on my top 5 list of best games I ever played.
I was afraid to play this game again after 20 years... I had great memories of it and didn't want to destroy them. Fortunately, Soldier of Fortune aged surprisingly well and GOG version works flawlessly. When I started playing, I just couldn't stop until I completed it few evenings later :) There aren't many THAT absorbing games nowadays :) And the "Hard" difficulty from 20 years ago is a REALLY hard compared to these "hard(ish)" difficulty levels from current games :D
