Deus Ex writer agrees with the criticism about the Mankind Divided ending

Come August, it will be nine years since we had a Deus Ex game, Mankind Divided, released in 2016. Some of you unfamiliar with the series may be shrugging your shoulders right now. “So what?” you may say, “we’re still waiting on Half-Life 3.” However, much like the elusive Half-Life installment, fans of the 𓄧exploits of Adam Jensen also nev🍌er got closure.

You see, Mankind Divided ended on a rather disappointing note, with the closing moments of the game strongly suggesting more was to come. However, it never emerged. As such, it’s become a major sore point in Deus Ex‘s history, and the game’s writer appears to agree.

In a recent interview on the YouTube channel “From Script to Life” (thanks, ), Mark Cecere – whose writing credits include the two Deus Ex reboots, Watch Dogs: Legions and Shadow of the Tomb Raider – also feels Mankind Divided’s ending was severely lacking.

It was rather “unsatisfying”

In the video – the bit in question begins around the 6:30 mark – Cecere agrees, for the most part, that the most recent Deus Ex game doesn’t feel finished. He goes on to say that the final fight between Jensen and the heavily augmented behemoth Viktor Marchenko was only supposed to be a kind of “halfway boss” battle.

Cecere adds that Marchenko was not considered the “brains” of the whole operation, which explains why the game feels “unsatisfying,” as he calls it.

Despite Mankind Divided being almost a decade old, I won’t spoil it by revealing how the story concludes. Suffice it to say, it actually doesn’t. That the game’s writer agrees there should have been more to come shows it wasn’t over. Those of us who have played it know that only too well.

Will we ever get a new game in the series, particularly one that finishes what Adam Jensen started? Sadly, about a year ago, Embracer Group allegedly shuttered a new Deus Ex project, leaving hopes of a continuation of the Mankind Divided story wavering.

Maybe it wasn’t the best Deus Ex game out there, but it definitely had its moments. Personally, I’m a fan of it. Even if it doesn’t quite hit the high marks of the OG release, it still deserves to have its story finished.