Deus Ex: Mankind Divided Gameplay Premiere Video

I always appreciate the opportunity to see extended gameplay from a game that’s yet to release. While I understand that it’s still marketing (the game is shown in a carefully controlled fashion to look as spectacular as possible, often at the highest graphic settings on a really powerful PC), seeing a game in action for a relatively long period of time is certainly preferable to seeing edited gameplay snippets in a trailer or some kind of CGI target render.

That’s a fairly long-winded way to say that I’m glad that Square Enix published a 25-minute gameplay video of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided that shows an extended look at one of the missions of the game. The video includes some stealth and combat gameplay, a look at many of the new augmentations, a dialogue battle, and also some thankfully clearly marked story spoilers. The game looks very much like Deus Ex: Human Revolution on steroids, though whether that’s a good or a bad thing depends very much on how much you enjoyed the prequel to Ion Storm’s original: