Deus Ex Mandkind Divided’s story was apparently cut short due to the necessity of it being rewritten. This came as a result of actor Elias Toufexis, who voiced protagonist Adam Jensen, and others on the team not being satisfied with its direction.
For all the praise it received, fans usually agree that Deus Ex Mankind Divided’s final boss fight happened too brusquely and its story deserved to be further expanded upon.
Deus Ex Mankind Divided Story
“What had happened was – and I don’t want to step on anybody’s toes, so I’m going to be vague – we had filmed about two months of an entire game, and it was going to be a completed game, if I remember correctly, and me and a couple other people had a big problem with where the story was going, and it wasn’t working. So they rewrote the entire thing, and they made it much bigger.”, Elias Toufaxis told website VG247.
“I remember even doing performance capture, finishing the day, and then going to the writers, and going, ‘What do you think?’ And they were like, ‘Yeah, yeah.’ And I think we all decided, we shouldn’t be saying, ‘Yeah, it’s okay,’ we should be saying, ‘Yeah, that was fucking great.’”, he continued.
Toufaxis also revealed that the story was then supposed to continue in a following Deus Ex game, however, publisher Square Enix chose to focus on other projects after the title didn’t sell the expected number of copies. Developer Eidos Montreal is currently working on a Marvel Avengers game, so it’s likely we’ll have to wait a bit until we get to return to Adam Jensen’s story.
