political machine 2008
Publisher:
Stardock Corporation / 2008-06-16
Genre:
Strategy
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Take your place in the race... the face for the White House is on!
The Political Machine is a PC strategy game in which players run for President. Players can choose an existing candidate or can design their own from scratch then choose a map/scenario to campaign in. From there players must tackle the issues and battle against their ideological opponent for victory on election day. Each scenario divides out the map into states (or provinces depending on the scenario). Each state is worth a certain number of electoral votes in which the player must win a majority of them on election day to win the game. A player has two major political resources capital and money. What they do with these two resources depends on the strategy employed. Each candidate has a number of traits that provide them with strengths and weaknesses such as charisma stamina integrity intelligence and position on the issues.As the player travels the country they can raise money build campaign headquarters do policy research make speeches take out advertisements or hire political consultants with various abilities. Meanwhile your opponent will be doing the same thing. As the game progresses the map will begin to turn either red or blue depending on who is winning (or purple of it's a tossup). Spend too much time raising money and you won't have built up an effective grassroots movement. Spend too much time giving speeches or building political capital with local politicians and you won't have the money to take out advertisements or conduct policy research that gives you access to better consultants and more effective campaign techniques.Product Highlights Your Own Presidential Candidate Design a candidate or choose from historical political figures. Modern Day Scenarios See how your favorite candidates might actually do in the election months before they happen. Democrat or Republican Campaign on the issues you think people care
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