Actor Elias Toufexis has been busy lately, exhibiting up as area spy Kenzo in The Expanse, pleasant rubber brow alien L’ak in Star Trek: Discovery, and The Penguin in Gotham Knights, amongst different roles. In line with the actor although, he hasn’t heard anything about reprising the position most avid gamers know him for: Deus Ex prequel collection protagonist Adam Jensen.
“Yeah, as joyful as I’m to be busy, I want I used to be much more busy on a brand new Deus Ex” Toufexis wrote on Twitter. “I’m not underneath any NDA for Deus Ex as a result of nobody has referred to as me about it. Actually.”
As PC Gamer information lead Andy Chalk put it, “This one hurts.” Like Jay Anthony Franke as JC Denton within the authentic recreation, Toufexis did a tremendous job squeezing heat and humor out of a be-trench coated, sun shades at night-wearing lug who knocks guys out and hides them in vents for a dwelling.
The black and gold neo-Renaissance of the Deus Ex prequels makes for an incongruous continuity with the unique video games, however they seem to be a incredible little bit of sci-fi on their very own, and Toufexis as Jensen is the weirdly relatable, down horrible for an ex-girlfriend who carried out human experiments on him emotional core of the entire expertise.
It is not essentially a dying knell for Jensen although—again in November, sources instructed Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier {that a} new Deus Ex was “very very early” in growth. Quick ahead 9 months and you possibly can possibly knock off simply a kind of “verys” in the case of the alleged subsequent Deus Ex’s growth progress. Whereas Toufexis would have a central position and a variety of traces to file if he was the protagonist of a brand new Deus Ex, truly recording voice traces comes fairly late in a recreation’s growth after the script’s been finalized.
On the similar time, it’d most likely by no means be too early to start out looping in and locking down central, acknowledged expertise, and who’s to say that the following Deus Ex recreation would not be a reboot? Given trendy growth cycles, it may very effectively be a niche of ten years or extra between the earlier recreation, 2016’s Mankind Divided, and the launch of this subsequent undertaking (god rattling that makes me really feel outdated). That’d be a rattling disgrace although—Mankind Divided actually felt like the center a part of a trilogy that wasn’t allowed to be completed.
Eidos Montreal’s most up-to-date launch was Guardians of the Galaxy, a recreation that shocked us with its wit and heat at a time of peak Marvel oversaturation (I am getting uninterested in all these things, anyway). The studio modified palms from Sq. Enix to The Embracer Group final August, and doesn’t appear to have been affected by a current wave of layoffs and studio closures on the mega writer.
