Deus Ex vs Deus Ex: Human Revolution vs Deus Ex: Mankind Divided

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1	Deus Ex (2000)	Deus Ex: Human Revolution (2011)	Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (2016)
2	Story themes: Transhumanism (becoming more than human through technology without such an exaggerated, unrealistic premise as Human Revolution), explores manipulative ways in which governments control/exploit people without them realizing it, rich corporations and governments controlling people through technology in a far more subtle, realistic, and controversial way than in Human Revolution, the effectiveness and downsides to US democracy and Chinese Triad-influenced government, the idea and controversy of a centralized government, artificial intelligence, all of which with far more depth than its sequels except for transhumanism which is less of a focus (but again more plausible and relevant), effectively predicted the state of the USA post-9/11	Story themes: Transhumanism (regular people severing their own limbs to replace them with mechanically augmented ones), rich corporations and governments controlling people through technology (not strongly or very effectively touched upon)	Story themes: Transhumanism (continuation of Human Revolution but with even less plausibility), rich corporations and governments controlling people through technology (not strongly or effectively touched upon)
3	The story has many real-world implications and social commentary, truly thought provoking	The story is entirely fantasy and has no real-world implications, thus is not thought provoking	The story is entirely fantasy and has no real-world implications, thus is not thought provoking
4	Elaborates on its themes with real world facts and statistics	There are no real world facts and statistics to support most of its themes, and it misses opportunities to do so the few times it can	There are no real world facts and statistics to support most of its themes, and it misses opportunities to do so the few times it can
5	One of the most memorable protagonists in gaming due to his wit, humor, and ideologies (which are altered by the player's actions)	More generic protagonist with no memorable lines or distinguished personality	Same protagonist as Human Revolution
6	All dialogue is supremely interactive to the player's actions, but more often than not you cannot choose your dialogue responses during a conversation (they are essentially chosen prior based on how you defined JC Denton's character through your actions)	Much less interactive dialogue and narrative than the original	Much less interactive dialogue and narrative than the original
7	Interacting with NPCs and overhearing guard dialogue can lead to them giving their perspective on current events thus adding cultural exposition to the story, and can lead to deep philosophical discussions of various sorts, so NPC dialogue significantly adds to the game thematically	Interacting with NPCs can only lead to them giving very brief opinions on augmentation technology	Interacting with NPCs can only lead to them giving very brief opinions on augmentation technology
8	Interacting with NPCs associated with protagonist leads to them giving their opinion of you and your actions	Interacting with NPCs associated with protagonist leads to them giving their opinion of you and your actions	Interacting with NPCs associated with protagonist leads to nothing
9	No loose plot threads	No loose plot threads	Tons of loose, unfinished, rushed plot threads
10	Plot takes you to New York City, Hong Kong, Paris, which serve as the game's hub locations, combined with the NPC dialogue and general writing quality, it really introduces you to the distinct culture of these places (Paris not so much)	Plot takes you to Detroit, Hengsha (highly fictionalized location in China) which serve as the game's hub locations	You hardly ever leave the Czech Republic, which holds the game's only hub location
11	Can use up to 12 activated augmentations at once	Only has 4 activated augmentations which you can use at once	Limited to using 4 activated augmentations at once
12	Nanoaugmented protagonist, one of the more powerful protagonists in action games	Mechanically augmented protagonist, much weaker than Deus Ex's protagonist	Same protagonist as Human Revolution but more powerful
13	Best shooter game of the Deus Ex franchise, particularly with mods, due to augmentations and weapons (including melee weapons which are gone from the sequels)	Worst shooter game of the Deus Ex franchise	Second best shooter game of the Deus Ex franchise
14	Worst stealth game of the Deus Ex franchise	Second best stealth game of the Deus Ex franchise	Best stealth game of the Deus Ex franchise due to having the most non-lethal weapons and augmentations, takedowns, best movement mobility, best AI detection of the franchise
15	Smallest hub locations in the franchise, 3 hubs	Second biggest hub locations in the franchise, 2 hubs	Biggest hub locations in the franchise (1.5 hubs)
16	Very similar, comparable mission level design to Human Revolution, smaller overall but with more hidden content	Very similar, comparable mission level design to the first game, a bit bigger overall but less hidden content	Most open ended mission level design
17	Just about endlessly moddable, for overhaul mods I most recommend GMDX 9.0	Not moddable	Not moddable
18	DX8/OpenGL stock, also DX9 and DX10 with mods	DX9/DX11	DX11/DX12
19	DirectSound/DirectSound3D with hardware acceleration support (which leads to by far the best sound in the franchise)	FMOD (poor sound effects)	FMOD (good sound effects)
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