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I had my brother play Deus Ex: Human Revolution and I remembered how much wacky fun I had.

America in 2027 is depicted a crumbling dystopia (basically what America will actually be in 3 years minus some fancy tech) where Musk types like Sarif are "creating" wealth by further segregating deindustrialized cities like Detroit.

There is literally a mission where you infiltrate a FEMA concentration camp in a deindustrialized region of Detroit that was built to house dissidents. And a literal fedposting tries to hire you to orchestrate a gang war to prevent people from finding out.

I find China's depiction in the game the most fascinating because China in HR is basically what the West fantasized China would become in the future. A neoliberal western vassal with a weak "Communist" party. There are Blackwater style PMCs in the game operating to protect Western sweatshops in China and brutalize the populace. Luckily, I had Jensen take them all out. fedposting xi-gun

Also, Israel apparently got wiped out so maybe the Cyberpunk dystopia is kind of based. zionist-despair

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[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 6 points 4 months ago

Mankind Divided has even better gameplay despite being unfinished. Also there's a bit where you pretty much have carte blanche to kill every cop in Prague