Eidos Celebrate April Fool’s Day With 8-Bit Deus Ex: Human Defiance

Ishaan Sahdev

Published: Apr 1, 2013 12:37 pm

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This morning, Square Enix and Eidos Montreal pulled their April Fool’s stunt with a joke reveal of Deus Ex: Human Defiance. It isn’t a movie or a follow-up to Human Revolution—it’s an 8-bit game:

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Eidos say: “Human Revolution brought about the cyber-Renaissance, Human Defiance marks the beginning of a Digital Golden Age.” Like regular Deus Ex games, Human Defiance will feature multiple options when it comes to tackling a given situation, from gunplay to being stealthy, and non-lethal boss fights.

Additionally, Eidos say that Deus Ex: Human Defiance will has a co-op multiplayer mode that teams Adam Jensen up with previous Deus Ex protagonist J.C. Denton.

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Ishaan Sahdev

Ishaan specializes in game design/sales analysis. He's the former managing editor of Siliconera and wrote the book "The Legend of Zelda - A Complete Development History". He also used to moonlight as a professional manga editor. These days, his day job has nothing to do with games, but the two inform each other nonetheless.