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. Blame a recent feature in Edge magazine, which got several of us—including our Jody, who made the powerful and correct case that the game is good, actually—thinking hard about the sad black sheep in the Deus Ex series. It also got one of us (me) replaying it all the way through the end. Still a banger, by the way.
