Deus Ex's maligned sequel was the most 2026 game of 2003: It clocked the 21st century even harder than Metal Gear Solid 2
Picture it: a crumbling world in the wake of a great collapse, filled with pornographic inequality and quotidian violence. A world where the uttermost limit of respectable politics seems to be presiding over—sometimes slowing, sometimes hastening, never reversing—a process of inexorable decline.
What am I talking about? Oh, you read the headline? That's cheating. Yes, I'm talking about Deus Ex: Invisible War. Again. Hey, I get it—PC Gamer has been bafflingly heavy on the Invisible War chat recently.