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Deus Ex: Mankind Divided

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A 2016 action RPG from Eidos-Montréal, set in a cyberpunk near future where a former counterterrorism agent confronts a shadowy conspiracy.

10 Interesting Facts About Deus Ex: Mankind Divided

Interesting Facts (3)

  1. #001

    A pocket secretary in the safe in Elias Chikane's puppet workshop holds the coordinates 47°22'N 8°33'E, which point to Zurich, Switzerland.

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  2. #002
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    Joseph Manderly, head of Task Force 29, is revealed to be secretly working for Bob Page and the Illuminati. That explains why he stays on as director when the organization becomes UNATCO in the original game, and shows he was part of Page's schemes long before the events of the first Deus Ex.

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  3. #003
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    The Picus news broadcast that closes the game reports that Samizdat's members, after the unrest and martial law in Prague, have moved to Paris and are starting to organize as Silohutte, the group that aids Deus Ex protagonist JC Denton.

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Easter Eggs & References (7)

  1. #004

    A Prague tech shop called "Tech Noir" nods to The Terminator: it is the name of the nightclub where Sarah Connor first meets Kyle Reese and the Terminator. Tech-noir also describes a hybrid of classic film noir and science fiction/cyberpunk, which fits the Deus Ex universe and series well.

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  2. #005

    Entering the combination "0451" at the game's first keypad unlocks the achievement "A Heated Combination", a nod to the original Deus Ex, where the same code opens the comm van near UNATCO HQ.

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  3. #006

    Near the Bolzano Monument in Prague stands a shop called "Sobchak Security", a nod to the business of the same name owned by Walter Sobchak in The Big Lebowski.

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  4. #007

    Attacking with the Icarus landing system unlocks the achievement "Going Down, Express Elevator To Hell", a clear reference to Hudson's classic line in Aliens.

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  5. #008

    An email exchange between Peter Chang and Ethan King at TF29 HQ mentions the hacker "Windmill", a reference to Arie Van Bruggen, whom Jensen dealt with in Deus Ex: Human Revolution, indicating he survived the previous game's events.

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  6. #009
    Contains a major spoiler — show

    Breaking into the VersaLife vault at the Palisade Bank in Prague reveals an email exchange between Morgan Everett and Bob Page about the failing health of Lucius DeBeers, head of the Illuminati. It foreshadows the original game, in which an ailing DeBeers is frozen by Everett at his Paris home to keep him alive.

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  7. #010
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    Using Victor Marchenko's killswitch unlocks the achievement "Laputian Machine", a reference to the original Deus Ex, where Gunther Hermann's killswitch is activated by speaking the same phrase.

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