Cool new game

[Conscript]

www.politicalmachine.com

The Political Machine is a new strategy game in which you are the campaign manager for a candidate for President of the United States. Choose a political party, put together the dream presidential ticket and go for it. Based on the real world, The Political Machine gives would-be candidates the taste of the challenge real candidates face. Fund raising, campaigning, building support, hiring operatives, winning endorsements, going on "The O'Maley Factor" and other cable news shows to answer the tough questions, and more.

The Political Machine is both a single player game against the computer and multiplayer against other players on the Internet. The game will be generally available at a store near you this summer -- just in time for this year's election. Play as Bush or Kerry or any of dozens of fictional or historical politicians. Make your own dream Reagan/Roosevelt ticket or create your own from sctatch.

http://www.politicalmachine.com/game.asp

I know I'll buy it!

 

[stabme]

can you pick parties like.. national socialists? german workers party?

 

[jmiller]

can you pick parties like.. national socialists? german workers party?

I would assume it's based on American parties, and as far as I know there is no large "Nationalist Socialist" political party in the USA. :confused4

Aside from the National Front that is, and even then I don't think they have any sway in America.

 

[Conscript]

It's all about American politics since it is just a U.S. Presidential election simulation, so I think it's pretty much just Democrats and Republicans, though it might include a few of the big third parties like Libertarians and Greens, I'm not sure.

 

[murat]

hey sounds cool, hope they will translate it into other languages

 

[notnamed]

Games like that are boring. You'd think they'd be fun, yes, but they're not. At all.

 

[Seldimis]

I won't buy it till it will be international politics

 

[stabme]

I won't buy it till it will be international politics

then we could have national socialists!! :devious2:

 

[jmiller]

then we could have national socialists!! :devious2:

Care to list those countries that actually have powerful Nationalist-Socialist political parties then?

 

[stabme]

Care to list those countries that actually have powerful Nationalist-Socialist political parties then?

argentina? :tongue2: i'm assuming, as thats where all the ss officers and men went to when the war was cut, and they did have a strong influence on their military, so i wouldn't be surprised if they didn't impact their government.

 

[Conscript]

Given the presidential election in the USA the game is obviously designed to just take advantage of the growing interest in American politics. I doubt it would work translated in other countries. Many countries have very complicated election law and wouldn't be fun for American audiences.

I can't imagine any of my friends wanting to simulate the French election or Ukrainan election. We barley have interest in our own.

 

[jmiller]

I can't imagine any of my friends wanting to simulate the French election or Ukrainan election. We barley have interest in our own.

I can't imagine anyone wanting to simulate those elections.

 

[murat]

Many countries have very complicated election law

well, i prefer our 'complicated' law than recounting the votes every time (remember 2000)

 

[trenzterra]

Singapore was socialist-communist, but the same party later switched to become democrats.

 

[Robert]

too bad the download demo is closed. shucks.

 

[trenzterra]

too bad the download demo is closed. shucks.

Damn, I didn't even notice there was even one.