At the time of writing for this article, the mainstream North American media is bombarding everyone with the Democratic presidential nominee race. What does this have to do with Deus Ex: Invisible War? Between Howard Dean standing up for issues before it was popular and Joe Lieberman fighting against terrorists before a certain president could pronounce the names Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden, the original Deus Ex was a game about the war on terrorism before it became a reality. In fact, the publishers have deemed Deus Ex the future war on terror.