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Originally posted by Aikido:

Deus Ex is based on William Gibson's Neuromancer, where corporations take a higher ranking of nations, and poverty is a natural phenomenon.
In the DE:HR if you go to "Extras" and select "In the making of..." You will hear Cyberpunk 3x times in that Documentary...
But as Technology advances, I agree, Deus Ex is the closest we got, Until CDPR Unleashed the Trailer of this beauty...

Absolutely, the cyberpunk genre inspirations are abundantly clear in DE:HR (and throughout the DE franchise.) I'm just talking about the sheer ambition of 2077's design goals for the player experience, which dwarf DE's, which is saying a lot. Think about how ambitious DE was just on its own. For a game to target, and succeed in, going beyond that by creating a contiguous open world of the density we've seen so far in this game's, is a little mind blowing. And I just feel like people are selling that a little short is all. I think some people just see a first person action game with some Deus Ex-like player choice but in a larger world, and I think it aspires to go well beyond that.