Deus Ex Writer Reveals Details On Canceled Sequel

We’ll probably never get a real sequel Deus Ex: Humanity Divided or find out how it and its predecessor might have connected to the original Deus Ex, released back in 2000. But there was a plan to take stock and connect the dots, and it looks like it would be pretty damn cool.

More than ten years ago, Square Enix and Eidos Montreal relaunched the game. Deus Ex franchise with a prequel to the 2011 open world sci-fi im-sim Human revolution and then followed that up in 2016 Humanity is divided. But then Square Enix sold the studio and Embracer has canceled plans to release a third game in 2023leaving storylines hanging and never giving fans a satisfying conclusion to the prequel games or fully explaining how they would tie into the original. Deus Ex. Now one of the authors who participated in the last two Deus Ex games shared an idea of ​​what the third game could be.

January 7, Human revolution And Humanity is divided writer Mark Cecere appeared in an episode of the podcast series From script to life. When asked about the future of the franchise, he gave details of what could happen in the next game. The big takeaway is that Jensen, the brooding cybernetic hero of the two prequel games, could never really defeat the big threat of the original Deus Ex.

“He’ll never be able to catch up” IlluminatiSecere said. “We know that the Illuminati will continue to exist until 2050. We know that some of the same characters who are part of the Illuminati inner circle are in 2050. So Jensen will never be able to get there and do anything specific. So what could happen? This was a question we once tried to answer. So we had… one name we could get rid of, and that was it. [member] that Jensen would catch up and do something.”

But Cecere says that whatever Jensen did to eliminate that member would have had “consequences” that would have led to the original game.

“After Jensen did [that]this causes Deus Ex, if that makes sense. And that’s the tragedy of Jensen, that he becomes the cause of what happens after… doing something– he makes Bob Page become Bob Page. That’s where we were going,” Cecere explained.

Of course, we didn’t get the story, and instead we were left with a not-so-exciting ending. Humanity is divided which even Cecere doesn’t like. The writer says he agrees with “many of the criticisms” of the ending and says that “nothing is resolved” by the end.

As for the other Deus Ex game, Cecere, who left Eidos Montreal before work on the third game began, does not know if it is being made, but admitted that he tried to take part in the last game before it was cancelled.

“I was not involved in this, although I was in contact with people to return, and… then it all went away. I wish I could have been there to finish it. But since then there has been no news.