We'll probably never get a real sequel Deus Ex: Humanity Divided or experience how it and its predecessor would have connected to the original Deus Ex, It was published back in 2000. But there was a plan to wrap things up and connect all the dots, and it sounds like it was pretty darn cool.
Square Enix and Eidos Montreal rebooted this over a decade ago Deus Ex franchise with the open-world-style sci-fi Im-Sim prequel from 2011 human revolution, and then the 2016s followed Humanity is divided. But then Square Enix sold the studio and Embracer has canceled plans for a third game in 2023leaves the storylines hanging and never gives fans a satisfying conclusion to the prequel games or fully explains how they would connect to the original Deus Ex. Well, one of the writers involved in the last two Deus Ex Games has given a taste of what a third game could have looked like.
On January 7th Human revolution And Humanity is divided Author Mark Cecere appeared on an episode of the podcast series From script to life. When asked about the future of the franchise, he revealed details about what could have happened in the next game. The big takeaway is that Jensen, the brooding cybernetic hero of the two prequel games, never could really Defeat the original's big bad threat Deus Ex.
“He can never catch up Illuminatisaid Cecere. “We know that the Illuminati will last until 2050. We know that some of these characters, who are part of the Illuminati inner circle, are in the year 2050. So Jensen can never get there and do anything concrete.” So what can happen? That was the question we tried to answer at some point. So we had… one name to get rid of, and that was this [member] that Jensen would have caught up and done something.”
But Cecere says that anything Jensen would have done to eliminate that one member would have had “impact” that would have affected the original game.
“From Jensen [that]it causes Deus Ex, if that makes sense. And that's the tragedy of Jensen, that he causes what happens next – by doing something– he lets Bob Page become Bob Page. That is our goal,” explained Cecere.
Of course we didn't understand this story and instead we're left with the not-so-great cliffhanger ending Humanity is divided, which even Cecere doesn't like. The author says he agrees with “a lot of the criticism” at the end and says that “nothing is resolved” in the end.
As for another Deus Ex Cecere, who left Eidos Montreal before work began on the third game, doesn't know if one is planned, but admitted he tried to get involved in the final game before it was canceled.
“I wasn't involved, although I was in contact with people to get back in, and… then it went away. I would have loved to have been there to see it through to the end. But no news since then.”
