Almost a year on from reports that a new Deus Ex game had been canceled amid layoffs at Eidos-Montréal, fans have once again been reminded what could have been next for Adam Jensen, and his actor seems understandably disappointed, too.
In a recent interview on the From Script to Life YouTube channel (below), Deus Ex: Human Revolution and Mankind Divided writer Mark Cecere has been giving some insight into what the next game could have looked like.
In the interview, he mentions that players were initially meant to go to the city of Rabi'ah after what eventually became the ending of Mankind Divided.
Based on that, he says: "I would suspect the plan was to go to this new city," but "the story itself changed so much when we had to cut that I'm not sure where they would go with it after." Despite this, Cecere suggests that Adam Jensen could "never catch up to the Illuminati," but "we did have one name that we could get rid of and that was the one that Jensen would have caught up to and done something.
But the repercussions of it… by Jensen doing this, it causes Deus Ex, if that makes sense. And that's the tragedy of Jensen, is that he causes what happens after by doing something.