I had my brother play Deus Ex: Human Revolution and I remembered how much wacky fun I had.

America in 2027 is depicted a crumbling dystopia (basically what America will actually be in 3 years minus some fancy tech) where Musk types like Sarif are “creating” wealth by further segregating deindustrialized cities like Detroit.

There is literally a mission where you infiltrate a FEMA concentration camp in a deindustrialized region of Detroit that was built to house dissidents. And a literal fedposting tries to hire you to orchestrate a gang war to prevent people from finding out.

I find China’s depiction in the game the most fascinating because China in HR is basically what the West fantasized China would become in the future. A neoliberal western vassal with a weak “Communist” party. There are Blackwater style PMCs in the game operating to protect Western sweatshops in China and brutalize the populace. Luckily, I had Jensen take them all out. fedposting xi-gun

Also, Israel apparently got wiped out so maybe the Cyberpunk dystopia is kind of based. zionist-despair

  • FourteenEyes [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    7·
    4 months ago

    Mankind Divided has even better gameplay despite being unfinished. Also there’s a bit where you pretty much have carte blanche to kill every cop in Prague

  • LeylaLove [she/her, love/loves]@hexbear.netEnglish
    5·
    4 months ago

    HR is so fucking fun. Also, a beautiful game even years later, the art style really has held up. The world they built for HR was just so interesting and fun to be in. Very flawed, but ultimately one of the games I hold most fondly from that console generation.