Posted on: November 10, 2016
Silverhawk170485
Verified ownerGames: 2838 Reviews: 28
Stayin true or being currupt?
Will you tell your voters the truth or will you be corrupt and sabotage your opponent to achieve your goal, being the next president? This ist the question you will encounter in Political Animals. Don't let you fool you by the graphics. This game is not made for children. It's a turnbased strategy game where you conquer staates/countries not by war as usual, instead you use politics to do so. You choose one of a few avatars and go on vote-catching with your lawers, spies, security men and so on. Every character has special abilities and traits like in an RPG. So you can achieve your goal in different ways. In my opinion the game has just the right coplexibility. It’s not as complex as Democracy 3 from the same Publisher. Democracy 3 has the way more micro management. Political Animals can be more compared with a boardgame, which makes it more accessible to a broader audience. This doesn’t mean that it is not complex at all. You have to plan carefully your next move by analysing each staates priorities and how you can cover them. If you don’t do that, you’ll loose the support of the voters, your party goes bankrupt and you can’t pay your party members, which results in, that they won’t do any more actions for you. The problem the game has is, that some people might be indisposed of this game. The game was released during the presidential election 2016 in the USA, which was very emotional for some people and they mac associate the game with the US election. In fact, despite the time the game was released, the game doesn’t have any other connection to the US election. It’s more a abstract voting system with no direct connection to a specific election system of a specific country. By the way, the game has some satire charme. I can recommend this game.
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