SimCandidate - Why Aren't There More Political Sims?

Thanks to Slate for their piece discussing why there aren't more videogames simulating current-day politics. The article posits: "The U.S. presidential campaign may be the first true election of the digital age, but it's still missing one key ingredient. Where is the video-game version of Campaign 2004?" It goes on to suggest that "presidential politics lends itself naturally to the idiom and audience of today's games. Political campaigns are already structured like games, with an escalating series of discrete competitions that determine the eventual winner. In addition, there's an existing body of readily available data, going back many decades, that could be harnessed to craft the simulation" Would you play a modern-day political sim videogame?

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FPS

[Uma Thurman]

The genre of first person shooters has been so wildly popular that it's pretty much dominated most of the game development that happens. It's had a stifling effect on other types of games.

There's just not enough money in the cerebrial games .