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4''Deus Ex: Invisible War'' is a FirstPersonShooter[=/=]ImmersiveSim with RPGElements developed by Creator/IonStorm and published by Eidos. Released simultaneously for Platform/MicrosoftWindows and Platform/{{Xbox}} in December 2003 in the United States, ''Invisible War'' is a sequel to the critically acclaimed ''VideoGame/DeusEx''.
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6''Invisible War'' takes place in 2072, twenty years after the original, in a world being rebuilt after the destruction of global infrastructure at the hands of the first game's protagonist, JC Denton. The World Trade Organization somehow forms a [[OneWorldOrder global government]], creating modern city-states, known as enclaves, in which the majority of the game takes place. All the world's major religions are united into a monolithic fanatical cult strongly opposing the [=WTO=]'s policies. Following a [[GreyGoo terrorist attack]] by an [[UsefulNotes/TheKnightsTemplar unknown group]] which destroys most of Chicago, the player assumes the role of Alex D (who can, in the first and only time in the series, be female), a trainee at the prestigious Tarsus Academy whose support as a mercenary is sought by several factions during the course of the game.
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8The game combines FirstPersonShooter, StealthBasedGame and a few RPGElements. The gameplay is significantly simplified compared to the original, exemplified in the "{{Universal Amm|unition}}o" concept, which gives the player character one ([[HandWave nanotechnological]]) ammunition store that's used by every single weapon in the game. Other examples include no skill system and plenty of handholding.
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10If you're having trouble playing it on modern [=PCs=], closing all other running programs may help; despite being over a decade old, the game is something of a resource hog. Also look into setting CPU affinity if you're running multi-core. This is one of those games that gets picky about its hardware.
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15* AcePilot: Sid Black. He will get you into a more advantageous starting spot in levels than Ava, but he also costs money, whereas Ava will fly you for free.
16* ActionizedSequel: Unlike the first game, there is no weapon skill progression, so your combat skills are at max from the very beginning of the game. At the same time, the Universal Ammo system makes a full Rambo run less viable than the first game, as you ''will'' run out of ammo unless you use at least some stealth.
17* AfterTheEnd: The game takes place after the Collapse, that is, a complete breakdown of social, political and economic order that occurred as a result of the events of the first game.
18* AIIsACrapshoot: To this day, players debate whether or not [[spoiler: Helios has completely gone off the rails of its and JC's promise of the "first true democracy" in the Helios Ending in favor of total control.]] Invoked in-game by [[spoiler: Chad]], who is convinced, and tries to convince Alex, that Helios has long since erased JC and merely uses his brain as a processor now. [[spoiler: He's wrong, though it doesn't shed light on the first point at all, and you can't get the dialog that proves it while going for the Helios Ending.]]
19* AmericanKirbyIsHardcore: Both the American and European covers show male Alex D aiming his pistol GangstaStyle [[SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou at the viewer]] while making a DreamWorksFace. The Japanese [[https://web.archive.org/web/20220826162511/https://i.redd.it/920nisokprm51.png cover on the other hand]] has as its centerpiece the silhouette of a person curled up in fetal position with his shins hanging down, resembling the shape of the human brain.
20* AncientConspiracy: TheIlluminati from the first game, although they are really more of a revival since they were mostly destroyed by the time of the first game. Also, UsefulNotes/TheKnightsTemplar.
21* AscendedExtra: [[spoiler:Chad Dumier. In ''VideoGame/DeusEx'', he appears for a total of ''one'' brief and optional scene. In ''Invisible War'', he becomes one of the major players in the story and setting as the leader of the Illuminati.]]
22* AwesomeButImpractical: The Dragon's Tooth Sword is easily the most powerful melee weapon...but is only obtained once you start primarily fighting the durable and explosive Templar armoured soldiers and the Illuminati elite troopers that release gas on death.
23* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: All but explicitly quoted by Alex to Leo Jankowski, who spent half the game going on and on about how powerful Omar augmentations could make him and what a great deal he's gotten by working for them - only to find out the hard way that, unlike the normal biomods he's used to, Omar augmentation ''hurts'', and that without individual emotions or being restrained by human morality, his new "friends" aren't all that ''friendly'' at all (when he gets cold feet and starts expressing doubt about the whole brain augmentation part, they calmly tell him that he's already made his choice and [[NightmareFuel they will simply wait for him to fall asleep before performing the brain modification, and that their augmented senses mean it would be futile for him to try to escape]]. Suddenly, being a badass posthuman doesn't sound like all that great a package...
24* BigBadEnsemble: [[spoiler:Saman, Nicolette [=DuClare=] and Chad Dumier, or JC and Paul Denton.]] It all depends on who you side with, but at the end of the game [[spoiler:you can have multiple factions and their leaders coming after you.]] However, [[spoiler:Saman]] is truly THE BigBad, since [[spoiler:his organization]] has been pretty much pulling the strings from within all the others throughout the game. You can still side with [[spoiler:him, of course]], but this would be the equivalent to siding with Bob Page from the original.
25* BioAugmentation: They're called Biomods now.
26* BlackAndGrayMorality: The Knights Templar are evil with everyone else being ambiguous.
27%%* BlackMarket: The Omar.
28* BlueAndOrangeMorality: The Omar, to some extent. They are a HiveMind playing all sides against each other with the intent of being the sole survivors.
29* BoringYetPractical:
30** The baton strikes quickly, easily takes down enemies with the increased strength biomod, and can disable cameras and turrets without exploding them with the EMP Discharge biomod.
31** As par for a ''Deus Ex'' game, the humble pistol. Accurate, easy on ammo, and the unique variants have good firepower.
32* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: The regular and black-market biomods are blue and red respectively.
33* CoolSword: The Dragon's Tooth Sword and its mass-produced version.
34* ConspiracyThriller: It's a ''Deus Ex'' game, so it's really this by nature. However, there are multiple conspiracy factions within the game, but it is later revealed that [[spoiler:there is one main antagonist AncientConspiracy faction that has been pulling everyone else's strings all along, and their leader serves as the true BigBad, so even though you can still choose different factions, there still is a group out to get you that is manipulating events (even though you can side with them anyway).]] Fittingly, this group is later revealed to be [[spoiler:none other than the Knight's Templar]].
35* CrapsackWorld: JC Denton caused a collapse of the economy, genetic experiments have infested cities as wild greasels and karkians have killed most urban wildlife and make walking at night dangerous. In contrast to his description of ''VideoGame/DeusEx'', Creator/WarrenSpector described ''Invisible War'' as set "five minutes before humanity's rebirth."
36* CrossPlayer: Unlike the first game, you have a choice of whether you want Alex(ander/andria) to be male or female (though at the end of the first game, [[spoiler: you find a male Alex D. floating in a tank]]). Certain characters will treat you differently based on your gender, and it opens and closes a few extra mission options for the player.
37* CuttingOffTheBranches: Beside the case of MergingTheBranches, there is also a straight example. [[spoiler:Paul Denton ''lives'' in ''Invisible War'', where he could have died in the first game depending on player actions.]]
38* CyberPunk: Quasi-Zaibatsu Corporate-State dominance by the World Trade Organization, Cybernetic enhancement of the human body, and both of the "not evil" factions seem to be attempting to use technology of some sort as cornerstone of their schemes for [[TakeOverTheWorld world domination]]. Plus, the main character has the ability to reject all of them at the end of the game. That fits all of the requirements of CyberPunk.
39* DancePartyEnding: The secret 5th ending, with every single major character (who you haven't killed off yet) enjoying themselves together in Club Vox.
40* DeathOfAChild: You can kill little schoolgirls in this (compared to the first game, where [[MenAreTheExpendableGender you could only kill boys]]).
41* DawnOfAnEra: Whereas the original ''Deus Ex'' which was set "5 minutes before a new dark age", this time you are 5 minutes away from Humanity's rebirth.
42* DevelopersRoom: The secret ending. When you flush the UN flag in Manderley's toilet, you find yourself in Club Vox with all living characters in there and datacubes with developer's comments floating midair.
43* DevelopersForesight: As maligned as the design is, the game will notice everything you do, especially if you do clever things or do things out of expected order.
44* DistantFinale: The Illuminati, JC & Helios and Omar endings all take place in the distant future in the years 2172, 2197 and 2272 respectively.
45* TheDragon: Billie Adams is the dragon for Saman.
46* DoomedHometown: Chicago is destroyed in the beginning of the game by a nanite bomb.
47* DownerEnding: The Purist ending is without question a downer: [[spoiler: [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Lead a pogrom against science itself?]]]]
48* EasilyForgiven: Right after the initial level of the game, you've given two choices for who to seek out in the name of pursuing your objectives. The local friendly law enforcement, or the church that just spent the opening level trying to murder you. While you do discover that those responsible for the attack [[FaceHeelTurn aren't part of the main group anymore]], you don't really have a lot of reasons to immediately trust them.
49%%* EliteMooks: The Illuminati commandos and PoweredArmor Templars.
50* EndOfTheWorldSpecial: Transhumanist AssimilationPlot, [[BigBrotherIsWatching benevolent dictatorship]], extremist theocracy, or 200 years of war leading to a ruined planet and the remainder of humanity becoming a HiveMind.
51* {{Flanderization}}: The Knights Templar of this game share the same name as those from ''VideoGame/DeusEx'', but they are an extreme exaggeration of one detail about the previous Knights. Where the Templars of ''VideoGame/DeusEx'' were religious bankers [[spoiler: related to the Illuminati]], the Templars of ''Invisible War'' are [[LuddWasRight extremist Luddite]] {{Church Militant}}s. It's not fully clear if the Knights Templar of ''Invisible War'' are a continuation of the few surviving members from ''Deus Ex'', or if they organized independently.
52* {{Foreshadowing}}: The Order sends you to Hangar 24 to investigate possible WTO complicity in withholding a cure for the nanite swarm plague. But barely a few steps away from the Church, the Omar trader will also send you to the same Hangar 24 to steal a Templar schematic for PoweredArmor. This tips you off to the fact that it isn’t the WTO withholding the plague cure, it’s the Templars. Further foreshadowed by the WTO tax auditor complaining about the Templars denying her access to Hangar 24 - further proving the Templars complicity in the plague.
53* FullCircleRevolution: [[spoiler: Nicolette [=DuClare=] and Chad Dumier, rabble rousers fighting against the establishment in the first game, FIGHTIN' THE POWER!.... And then they become the power, as the heads of the reformed Illuminati. It's InTheBlood for Nico, since her mom was partners in crime with Everett preceding the first game.]]
54* GaiasLament: The Earth hasn't recovered since the events of the first game, and in some cases things are worse. [=VersaLife=]'s transgenic creatures are now full-blown invasive species, and Nanite Swells--massive clouds of nanites from labs destroyed during the Collapse--infect people with Gray Death-like ailments.
55* GameplayAllyImmortality: The game has several immortal [=NPCs=] as well, but it also de-emphasized the issue by segregating the player from them. A lot of conversations with plot-relevant characters took place over video screens and across unbreakable walls. There was also areas where all your weapons are deactivated, thereby preventing you from attacking plot important characters prematurely. However, even if you glitch your way through and have your weapons still active, everybody in the area is still invincible anyway.
56* GangstaStyle: Alex (male) holds his gun sideways on the cover art, but is thankfully professional enough to never do that in the actual game.
57* GenderIsNoObject: The gender ratio for the various armed forces in this game is pretty much dead even, shockingly.
58* GoldenSnitch: Even if you've killed the [[AncientConspiracy Illuminati]] co-leader, or have been killing UsefulNotes/TheKnightsTemplar the entire game, you can still side with these factions in the end.
59* GreyGoo: The game begins with a Grey Goo ''bomb'' being detonated, sweeping over a city and reducing most of it to ash.
60* TheGreys: They now speak English and serve as JC Denton's minions.
61* GunsInChurch: Bars and other establishments have "weapons-free zones" that require patrons to submit to having their weapons deactivated--ostensibly this just keeps guns, heavy weapons, and combat-based augmentations from being used, but it also prevents the use of melee weapons. [[ImprobableWeaponUser Fire extinguishers make a handy replacement.]]
62* HeKnowsTooMuch: After completing the quest that the manager of [=QueeQueg=]'s Coffee Shop in Trier gives you, you can suggest to him that he goes public with the information that you discovered. A news kiosk later in the game reports that he was found dead outside his coffee shop.
63* HiveMind:
64** The Omar, a global black-market transhuman syndicate.
65** The [[spoiler:JC and Paul Denton]] ending.
66* HolographicTerminal: Played completely straight with the various news kiosks found throughout the game (even in "low tech" areas).
67* ILied: Inverted, Chairman Dumier at one point holds Klara Sparks hostage to your good behaviour. Should you abandon the mission to free her, he'll insist that he was bluffing and you didn't need to be so extreme.
68* IncendiaryExponent: Oh yeah, penguins on fire in the secret ending.
69* InformedAbility: The other Tarsus Cadets (and Paul and J.C. as well) actually don't have any nano-aug powers when you fight them in combat, just somewhat more health than a normal human enemy.
70* InsecurityCamera: The cameras now emit a field of light showing their field of view, which could be HandWaved as visible to you only due to augmentations.
71* InterchangeableAsianCultures: The Dragon's Tooth sword was originally based off of a Chinese jian sword, which makes sense as it was canonically developed in China. Yet it becomes a [[KatanasAreJustBetter samurai sword]] in IW ― a Japanese weapon.
72* InterfaithSmoothie: The Order combines aspects of every major religion in the world. You can hear some of its followers express concern that as a result their ideology is too convoluted to easily attract new members.
73* KatanasAreJustBetter: Not exactly katanas, but the jians from the original game are now curved.
74* KleptomaniacHero: There's still opportunities to indulge in a little StickyFingers.
75* LaserHallway: Red beams trigger alarms, green trigger [[DeadlyGas gas bombs]], and yellow ones set you on fire.
76* LimitedWardrobe: For completely unexplained reasons, Paul and JC are wearing the same clothes that they did in the first. The first, which took place twenty years ago. The same clothes from twenty years ago, bet they smell lovely.
77* LoadsAndLoadsOfLoading: The console version gets bogged down with this.
78* MassSuperEmpoweringEvent: In the "good"(ish) ending, all of humanity is [[BioAugmentation augmented]] with {{Nanomachines}} that provide [[WeWillHavePerfectHealthInTheFuture perfect health]], universal education, and a link to a central AI as part of program of "perfect democracy" - not just universal suffrage, but universal intelligence, ensuring that everyone's vote is based on educated opinions. This results in TheSingularity -- world peace, universal prosperity, rapidly advancing technology, easy space development and nanotech superpowers... for everyone. In comparison, the [[BlackAndGreyMorality alternatives]] are dictatorships by {{Mega Corp}}s, {{Church Militant}}s, or [[TheSocialDarwinist Social Darwinists]].
79* MenAreTheExpendableGender: One of the few [=FPS=]es that completely averts this trope, [=RPG=] hybrid or not, given all the female enemies that appear in this game are roughly of equal footing with the male enemies.
80* MentalFusion: JC Denton, who fused with Helios in the first game.
81* MergingTheBranches: The game uses a combination of the three possible but mutually exclusive endings of ''VideoGame/DeusEx''. [[spoiler:JC Denton merged with Helios, but this caused global communication to suffer a breakdown and the world descend into a period of war and economic depression known as "the Collapse", the Illuminati then used the resulting chaos during this time to consolidate their power.]]
82* MultiPlatform: Invisible War was an early example of a big-budget game being developed simultaneously for both the PC and [=XBox=], rather than ported after the fact.
83* MultipleEndings: Four of them plus a secret ending. As in the original game, you decide the ending at the last minute. [[spoiler:In the "good"(ish) ending, [[MassSuperEmpoweringEvent all of humanity]] is [[BioAugmentation Augmented]] with {{Nanomachines}} that provide [[WeWillHavePerfectHealthInTheFuture Perfect Health]], [[ViewersAreGeniuses Universal Education]], and a link to a central AI as part of program of "perfect democracy" - not just universal suffrage, but universal ''intelligence'', ensuring that everyone's vote is based on educated opinions. This results in TheSingularity - world peace, [[MatterReplicator universal prosperity]], rapidly advancing technology, [[IWantMyJetpack easy space development]] and nanotech superpowers... for ''everyone.'' The [[BlackAndGrayMorality alternatives]] are dictatorships by {{Mega Corp}}s, {{Church Militant}}s, or {{Social Darwinist}}s.]] In the secret one (where you take the flag from Manderly's office into the men's bathroom and flush the toilet), everyone stops fighting, turns Liberty Island into a nightclub and starts partying.
84* MythologyGag:
85** Gunther was ''right''. The maintenance man ''was'' plotting against him!
86** You also find a file that mentions a "skull gun" being received at UNATCO, which is something Gunther requested in the first game. However, the same file mentions Gunther was no longer available at the time, and it was sent back.
87* NamedWeapons: Red Greasel Hunter, Hellfire Boltcaster, Dragon's Tooth Sword, and the Widowmaker [=SMG=]. They all look like regular weapons, but have different properties. [[PoisonedWeapons Toxin Blade]] and Assassin Pistol are fairly generic names.
88* {{Nerf}}ed:
89** Nano-augmentations are significantly less god-like in ''Invisible War'' compared to the original game. In ''VideoGame/DeusEx'' once you max out your augmentations, you're essentially a PhysicalGod as long as you have bio-energy (and the augmentations really don't drain bio-energy particularly fast). In ''Invisible War'' the enhancements provided by augmentations are noticeably less powerful, and they drain energy much more quickly.
90** The pistol is less effective too due to headshots giving much less of a damage increase than in the first game.
91* NiceCharacterMeanActor: NG Resonance in-game. The AI constructs of her are vaguely Orwellian, but otherwise charming. Once you meet the real NG, she turns out to be a spoiled, self-centered brat.
92* NoTranshumanismAllowed: The Purist faction.
93* OhMyGods: UsefulNotes/TheKnightsTemplar shout things like "By the Skull of Sidon!" or "Baphomet preserve me!".
94* OmnicidalNeutral: Requirement for [[spoiler: the Omar]] ending.
95* OppositeSexClone: In the case that you choose [[Creator/LauraBailey female Alex]] (as Alex is the clone of JC).
96* PacifistRun: It's possible (with difficulty) to play the entire game without causing the death of anyone, boss or otherwise.
97* PamphletShelf: ''Jacob's War'', which is apparently a sequel to ''Jacob's Shadow'' of the original ''VideoGame/DeusEx''.
98* PlotParallel: The rivalry between two coffee chains, Queequeg's and Pequod's, mirrors the rivalry between The Order and the WTO. [[spoiler:They both turn out to be artificial rivals run by the same organization. And come on, both coffee chains should have clued you in by both being references to Literature/MobyDick (and Starbuck's).]]
99* PoweredArmor: Used by the Purist in order to have soldiers who can match their augmented counterparts from the other factions.
100* PowerNullifier: The bars in the game have a security system that scans weapons and make them inoperable until you leave (even melee weapons such as the baton). Combat-based augmentations are also disabled. The usage allows interacting with certain plot-critical [=NPCs=] without allowing the player to attempt killing them early.
101* PunnyName: The unique Widowmaker submachinegun. It's not a "widowmaker" in the usual meaning that it kills men and makes widows out of their wives. The secondary fire is a grenade launcher which launches spiderbot grenades. A black widow is a type of spider. It's a "widowmaker" in that is literally creates spiders.
102* PurelyAestheticGender: In terms of game mechanics but not necessarily of character interaction.
103* RankScalesWithAsskicking: All of the faction leaders are tougher than a normal human enemy, even though none of them (other than the Dentons) are explicitly augmented. The Dumiers and Tracer Tong are all as tough as an [[EliteMooks Elite Mook]], while Saman can withstand as much damage as a nano-augmented Tarsus Cadet or Paul Denton despite being explicitly a non-augmented [[{{Muggles}} Muggle]]. J.C. Denton himself has the (second) most health of any character in the game, being about on par with a Heavy Combat Bot in terms of durability.
104%%* RecurringBoss: Billie.
105* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Played straight with the Knights Templar who wear red and black uniforms, but subverted for the Order who, while they also wear red and black, are more morally gray.
106* ReligionIsWrong: One of the most glaring changes in tone and theme from the previous game is that the world's religions are not only subsumed into The Order, but that The Order [[spoiler:is just a method of control for the Illuminati]]. One of the truly "black" factions in the game, an offshoot of The Order, plunges the world into an [[TheFundamentalist extremist theocratic dark age]] if they win. In the previous game, spirituality and religion were themes which ran parallel to the setting, but never outright depicted to be "right" or "wrong."
107* RePower: Changing augmentations falls short of a SkillPointReset, instead replacing one augmentation with another. It still consumes an augmentation, and the new biomod is at level 1.
108* SapientSteed: [[spoiler:Ava Johnson, the "pilot" of the helicopter, is actually an AI construct.]]
109* SchoolForScheming: The Tarsus Academy you are a student of is a cover for the biomod development corporation [=ApostleCorp=].
110* SecretWar: Somewhat between The Order and the WTO, though they don't do a great job of keeping it a secret, and Alex can make it more obvious. [[spoiler: That both organizations are run by TheIlluminati and not really at war is the real secret.]]
111* ShopliftAndDie: Guards will react if you break into store display cases.
112* SkippableBoss:
113** It's possible to shoot (or utilize a bug involving a shower in the character's apartment) to kill [[spoiler:Billie Adams]] in the first stage proper, which removes the character from the plot altogether.
114** Silas Archer, the [[spoiler: Templars aligned principal of the Cairo Tarsus Academy]] normally needs to be killed when confronted about his treachery, after which you have to [[spoiler: shoot up the school]] to get out. However, this can be skipped if instead, you take the evidence of his duplicity to the SSC Security Chief one floor above. Silas is hauled into custody offscreen. In fact, a datacube found in Archer’s secret lair pretty much states that this security chief can be a powerful opposition to Archer.
115* SmugSnake: Luminon Saman is one of the oiliest guys in the ''Deus Ex'' series.
116* SocialDarwinist: The Omar. They constantly try to improve their functionality to prepare for the harshest of environments.
117-->The Omar are an application of anagenetic evolution to rapid environmental change. In solving the problem of survival on a planet disrupted by wars and self-replicating hazards, we have solved other problems.
118* SoulJar: Sort of. The [[{{Nanomachines}} Universal Constructor]] rebuilds JC's body every time you kill him.
119* SpecialGuest: Free Dominguez of Kidneythieves voiced [=NG=] Resonance, and their tracks play in the clubs in the game.
120* StoryDrivenInvulnerability: In contrast to the original ''Deus Ex'', where plot-critical characters were simply invincible, in ''Invisible War'' anyone can be killed--however, to prevent this with major characters too soon, they're in places where Alex Denton can't attack them save for players thinking outside the box--this usually reveals that the game is playing it straight at those points.
121** One example is [[spoiler: Chad Dumier]]. When first met the character is behind bulletproof glass, which only the EMP blasts (which are harmless to humans) or the Magrail can penetrate. However, a nearby bodyguard ''is'' a character type vulnerable to EMP blasts, and they create a toxic gas cloud upon death. Use the Magrail to take out the bodyguard and nearly everyone behind the glass drops dead while [[spoiler: Chad]] doesn't even flinch despite being in the middle of the cloud.
122** Due to a bug, it's possible to kill Billie Adams in the first level, before she runs into a locked, bulletproof room. Surprisingly, the rest of the game proceeds mostly as normal; in areas where Billie was supposed to appear, she's simply missing, and intercom messages she was supposed to send you are instead blank. Sometimes characters will talk as though she's there even though she's not (due to being dead), but otherwise the game remains entirely unbroken.
123** The scientist at Mako Ballistics that shows you the Mag Rail closes the door behind him, if you take the weapon. However, you can block it with a crate and kill him afterwards. He has the highest HP in the game (even JC Denton looks like a weakling in comparison). Probably so you don't use your shiny new "shoots-through-walls" weapon on him. If you hack away for a few minutes with a sword, he eventually dies.
124** It's possible to get the code from the security chief in the {{arcology}} for the nanobots and after activating the nanobots, you can kill him for the Harvester's reward, as presumably due to a glitch(at least on the PC version, not sure if it happens on the console as well) he dosen't disappear from his office like he's normally supposed to.
125* StrongFleshWeakSteel: The un-augmented Saman can take as much damage as his mooks in [[PoweredArmor powered armor]].
126* SunglassesAtNight: Averted with JC Denton, compared to his iconic first appearance. Alex doesn't wear them either, even with modified eyes.
127* TheSingularity: This is definitely what's implied to happen [[spoiler:if you take the Helios ending]]. However it's not just the technology that rapidly becomes more advanced, but humanity itself as well since they are actually part of said technology. With the economy now fully automated, it's implied that humanity will now completely focus on "new frontiers" and will become infinitely advanced. [[{{HumansAreCthulhu}} That actually sounds a little creepy for any aliens we might encounter.]]
128* TakeYourTime: Zigzagged with the impending Templar attack on the Omar in Cairo. The Templar recruitment booth will stay mum about any plans to attack the Omar until you get into the AirVentPassageway near Tarsus Academy so you can eavesdrop on them. After that, you have one hour by which to warn Leo, or the attack succeeds.
129* TitleDrop:
130-->'''Leila Nassif:''' We aren't equipped to fight a war.\
131'''Project Director:''' We're going to change the terms of engagement. It's our war, not theirs. We don't need cities or armies. We have the cells of human bodies. An invisible weapon, for an invisible war.
132* TomboyishName:
133** Alex, since you can be either male or female.
134** Billie Adams too, though she is always female.
135* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler: It was totally a good idea for Illuminati leaders and Saman to come to Liberty Island, what could possibly go wrong?]]
136%%* TrashcanBonfire: A common sight in the various slums.
137* UngratefulBastard: In Antarctica, you can encounter a Templar agent trapped in a holding cell calling for help. If you save him, he'll notice that you have augmentations and open fire right after giving a speech about how not all Templars are extremists.
138* UniversalAmmunition: Likely to be the most extreme example ever implemented. Every single weapon that uses ammo draws from the exact same ammo pool: the same kind of ammo for pistols, shotguns, [=RPG=]s, flamethrowers... This is very problematic because you still have a rather low limit of times you can fire just one weapon from full ammo, now with the added bonus that when you run out of bullets for that one gun, you've run yourself out of bullets for every single one of your guns. The in-game explanation justifies this by stating that ammunition is reduced to a slurry of nanomachines that form into the proper ammunition for the weapon. Also, all the weapons in the game are manufactured by a single company, Mako Ballistics, who has customized them all to be cross-compatible with one another.
139* UnwinnableByDesign: Because of the limited amount of medkits, energy cells, universal ammo, and biomods, if you are not careful with all those things (and don't create multiple saves), you can by endgame [[spoiler: be stuck at the bottom of UNATCO's headquarters with no health, energy, ammo, and no way to sneak past the guards that will spawn nearby when you make the final decision and reach the ending cinematic. The only way to win without cheating is to activate the "Disco" ending.]]
140* UrbanSegregation: The Seattle and Cairo levels play this straight.
141** Seattle is separated into two distinct areas, Upper (New) Seattle and Lower (old) Seattle, with Upper Seattle being built on top of massive spires that tower above the older, more impoverished neighborhoods of old Seattle.
142** Cairo, likewise, is separated into the {{Arcology}} (a pyramid-like structure where the rich people are located) and the Medina ("Old Cairo", where the lower class citizens are forced to live in a polluted atmosphere).
143** The two main sects are, interestingly, aligned to these areas too. The WTO headquarters are ''always'' in the upper class areas, and the Order churches are ''always'' in the lower-class neighborhoods. The various locations of the two coffee chains run along similar lines.
144* UselessUsefulStealth: Playing stealthily is only viable if you're trying to avoid the enemies completely, as going for a sneak attack will result in the enemies exploding, releasing gas, or shrugging it off and attacking you.
145* VideoGameCaringPotential:
146** You can spare Lin May Chen a lot of pain and confusion by telling her [[spoiler:the Order and WTO are not the same entity]]. Her relieved expression and renewed optimism and desire to do good makes the little white lie worth it.
147** You can have a promising young girl accepted to a prestigious academy, which moves her safely out of her polluted environment and poverty into her best chance for a better life. The reward for doing so would buy you a cup of coffee.
148* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: The Hellfire Boltcaster will set any non-mechanical entity on fire with 2 shots. You can do this to the children '''in a school'''. For an added dose of cruelty, the only way to get that weapon is to destroy the Nassif hydroponics facility that grows food for Cairo’s slum dwellers.
149* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection: Even your active efforts to bring down their organization won't stop the faction leaders from pestering you through the Infolink.
150* WhatTheHellHero:
151** Killing children at the Tarsus Academy in Cairo will earn you this from WTO Chief Morgan. And others. Note though, that acts like this won't carry any long-term penalty or change of attitude towards the player.
152** Klara Sparks will first warn you and then eventually attack you if you make a habit of executing unconscious enemies in your one mission together. Assuming she sees you, it is a game with stealth elements after all.
153* WhereItAllBegan: The final level of ''Invisible War'' returns to the same location seen in the first level of the original ''Deus Ex'', Liberty Island.
154* WouldHurtAChild: The Templars would murder a child simply because they're a prime candidate for augmentation. Alex (read:'''you''') can also kill children if you are so inclined to do so.

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