Deus Ex disagrees. Of course that's also the game where...
The totalitarian globalist technocracy sitting at the point-of-convergence for unchecked corporate & gov't power, and the UN army which serves as their public enforcement arm, are unambiguously the bad guys.
The far-right militia guys who have been designated as terrorists and who you are encouraged to kill on sight turn out to be good guys fighting for the interests of the people against said technocracy.
The avant-garde Situationist-style leftist rebels you run into later are pretty useless in a fight and will themselves agree that they'd all be dead without you, unlike the militiamen above who keep on trucking after you pummel the crap out of them in the first couple levels.
Literally every media outlet is under the control of the technocratic conspiracy, even the one that seems 'based' and on the side of freedom at first glance.
Perhaps most importantly, the game doesn't judge you for your actions and consistently gives you a huge degree of freedom to do whatever you want to do, all the way to the ending(s).
Yeah, I can see why Jacobin might have a problem with all that.
Deus Ex disagrees. Of course that's also the game where...
The totalitarian globalist technocracy sitting at the point-of-convergence for unchecked corporate & gov't power, and the UN army which serves as their public enforcement arm, are unambiguously the bad guys.
The far-right militia guys who have been designated as terrorists and who you are encouraged to kill on sight turn out to be good guys fighting for the interests of the people against said technocracy.
The avant-garde Situationist-style leftist rebels you run into later are pretty useless in a fight and will themselves agree that they'd all be dead without you, unlike the militiamen above who keep on trucking after you pummel the crap out of them in the first couple levels.
Literally every media outlet is under the control of the technocratic conspiracy, even the one that seems 'based' and on the side of freedom at first glance.
Perhaps most importantly, the game doesn't judge you for your actions and consistently gives you a huge degree of freedom to do whatever you want to do, all the way to the ending(s).
Yeah, I can see why Jacobin might have a problem with all that.
I STILL play the Deus Ex franchise to th8s day, with the first one being my fav. It truly was prophetic.