Presidential Gaming - A Political Machine?

Posted by simoniker on Wednesday March 31, 2004 @12:03AM from the tanner-88 dept.

Thanks to Blue's News for pointing to a Stardock press release discussing the announcement of a new PC strategy game based on running a U.S. Presidential campaign. An official site for The Political Machine has already been launched, with info on the 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." The title, from the developers of the niche favorite Galactic Civilizations, will debut via public Beta on the Steam-like Drengin gaming network on April 8th, and is due in stores this June.

Min score:

Reason:

Sort:

Dark Horse by Joe+U · 2004-03-31 03:44 · Score: 2, Informative

Does anyone remember the old MSNBC web game Dark Horse, where you ran a presidential campaign?

Granted, this will be more complex. Either way, it's good to see Pol/Econ turn based games becoming more popular again.
President Forever by viware · 2004-03-31 03:55 · Score: 3, Informative

Theres already a good game out like this, called President Forever.
It's super fun and complicated. Pretty much pure strategy. There's a demo to try it out on the website!