Seems interesting, should have a demo or something tho. :x
Could you answer my questions? :)
I've known about this for a while.
But I have a few questions a demo could solve, but... :-[
Is it turn-based or realtime?
How big is the download? I have somewhere like 500MB left on my hard drive, and am too lazy to clear out any space.
Still probably won't buy it though.
I bought it.
I have just this to say:
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$$72.95!!!!??!?
ARE THEY INSANE?!
I know the dollar is bad, but still, it's a GAME.
It looks like a lot of fun, but I still haven't recovered from my conniption fit long enough to play.
I mean seriously, what do they send it on, a solid cocaine CD?
At that price they really should have a demo of some sort. That's a lot of money to be shelling out on something you can't be sure you will enjoy.
This is also possibly the only game in the world where lowering taxes actually causes the masses to strike in the street. You would think slashing income and property taxes to zero and instituting a modest national sales tax would be a popular move for a country that's sick of IRS paperwork; instead, it sent my popularity plummeting.
GPS lets you take over any current nation on Earth, which is a neat idea, until you realize that managing something like Sweden is just a bit less of a challenge compared to running a big power such as the United States. Sure, I had fun playing as the prime minister of Sweden, with its strong economy, budget surplus, and healthy population. All I had to do to rocket my popularity skyward was put in a brief cut on interest rates and use the ensuing tax revenue growth to fund popular projects, like hospitals, schools, and a youth soccer program that led to a Euro Cup-winning team. However, GPS sort of went out of its way to throw some wrenches into the works by saddling Sweden, of all places, with not one but two festering terrorist organizations. Despite dumping resources into internal security and policing I could never eliminate either of them. Meanwhile, things got even worse, and even more bizarre, when out of nowhere Iran, of all countries, launched a surprise military attack on Swedish soil. Such an act defies all sorts of logic.
As president of Burundi, I was shot at dawn during a military coup after only four days in power. It was unclear exactly what I’d done to upset the generals, but I’d proposed a number of changes, so I started the game again and this time tried making only one.
This must have appeased them slightly, as they waited six days before shooting me.
Giving up on Burundi, I managed to last an entire week as president of China before an attempt to give slightly more freedom to the press backfired and led the ‘Secretary General’ (sic) of the Communist Party to fire me.
This was particularly bewildering given that I’d just received a message from this same individual, congratulating me for giving more freedom to the press.
$$72.95!!!!??!?
ARE THEY INSANE?!
This is also possibly the only game in the world where lowering taxes actually causes the masses to strike in the street. You would think slashing income and property taxes to zero and instituting a modest national sales tax would be a popular move for a country that's sick of IRS paperwork; instead, it sent my popularity plummeting.
That sounds pretty realistic portrayal of how the U.S. would react to a national sales tax to me.
QuoteThat sounds pretty realistic portrayal of how the U.S. would react to a national sales tax to me.
I thought the people were going to streets and screaming, "DEATH TO AMERICA!" because they were worried a tax cut would deny America reveune, possibly leading to higher deficits and cuts in government programs.
January 28, 2009 - I was less than a week into the administration of my 44th president of the United States, the honorable Edward MacKenny, when suddenly the big guy was booted out of office after his popularity rating dropped faster than a meteorite crashing to Earth. And yet the only reason I can deduce for it was that that despite proposing cuts in income and property taxes, a proposed increase in vehicle registration taxes sent the electorate in a rabid frenzy. Of course, as any American who drives knows, it's the states that set their own vehicle registration taxes, not the Federal Government. That sort of sums up the relevant points about Commander in Chief: Geo-Political Simulator 2009, the follow up to last year's ambitious mess of a game, Geo-Political Simulator.
There is no such checks-and-balances in this game, in a game that is supposed to be focused on the US.
Yet there's also a deeper problem, which is that the developers still try to shoehorn every governmental type into one formula. The United States' unique separation of powers, as well as the distribution of power on local, state, and Federal levels, isn't really modeled, which is a problem since the game's main scenario gives you the role of president of the United States. Sure, a European country's parliament may be able to control the salaries and exact number of teachers in the country, but in the United States those kinds of critical details are dealt with on a state and local level. Another example is when it comes to nuclear weapons: you can only build them secretly, which is weird since the US is open about the fact that it stockpiles nukes. It just doesn't make much sense in the overall scheme of things.
"A new President for the USA": On January 20th, 2009, Inauguration Day, the new US president starts his 4-year mandate. He has to apply Democratic party policies and will be facing several challenges including: financial crisis, unemployment, introducing new social laws in health, education, and labor, sending home US troops that are in Irak, just to name a few tasks ...
Actually, re-reading the article makes me realize the real, true reason why the people protested.QuoteJanuary 28, 2009 - I was less than a week into the administration of my 44th president of the United States, the honorable Edward MacKenny, when suddenly the big guy was booted out of office after his popularity rating dropped faster than a meteorite crashing to Earth. And yet the only reason I can deduce for it was that that despite proposing cuts in income and property taxes, a proposed increase in vehicle registration taxes sent the electorate in a rabid frenzy. Of course, as any American who drives knows, it's the states that set their own vehicle registration taxes, not the Federal Government. That sort of sums up the relevant points about Commander in Chief: Geo-Political Simulator 2009, the follow up to last year's ambitious mess of a game, Geo-Political Simulator.
Vehicle registration taxes. If you drive a car, you're going to have to pay higher registeration fees. Yeah, that's going to lead to problems.
I think the main point I was trying to make is not about how a what-you-may-call-it tax is the worst thing on planet Earth, but how this game is not really...a good simulation at all. In general, not in this specific instance. For example, there is no such checks-and-balances in this game, in a game that is supposed to be focused on the US.
This was the only strange event I found (at least for this new updated version), as this game gets around, I'm sure reviewers will post new 'strangeness' {at least in how they preceive strange}...
I think the main point I was trying to make is not about how a what-you-may-call-it tax is the worst thing on planet Earth, but how this game is not really...a good simulation at all. In general, not in this specific instance. For example, there is no such checks-and-balances in this game, in a game that is supposed to be focused on the US.
Yeah, it does look like the game has serious issues.
Then blame it on the American school system that educated these American reviewers.American School System, A.S.S.
And Chris comes off slightly insane to me. :)
Yeah, the Balance of Powers series is great, altough I do dislike his reasoning for why a minor standoff over an small African country should logically result in nuclear war ("If you didn't WANT nuclear war, you shouldn't have escalated it up to a nuclear war").
Soviet Union: "I'm going to send in 1,000 military advisers over to the Sadinistas."
America: "Ahem."
Soviet Union: "Oh right. Cancel that then. I don't want a nuclear war."
Well, Isreal isn't exactly known for having a long list of friends.
Good point. And they can't smuggle them into the US either...
basically nothing has changed with these devs in 10 years, just more titles, moer updates and the bugs eventually get fixed but 10 more take their placeI seriously wonder what makes them keep going. Not a single release has been a fully functional game, and it seems to have no real existing fanbase, either. Surely it can't be worth the time they sink into ti.
For the Lutz!basically nothing has changed with these devs in 10 years, just more titles, moer updates and the bugs eventually get fixed but 10 more take their placeI seriously wonder what makes them keep going. Not a single release has been a fully functional game, and it seems to have no real existing fanbase, either. Surely it can't be worth the time they sink into ti.