For the third time we delve into the complex, interrelated issues that plague all politicians, forcing you to carefully balance existing issues with the need for reform. Alas, little has changed since the predecessors. Again, you move sliders, click through vast tables, fight off the urge to tear your hair out at the sight of yet more information that may or may not important for your decision-making task at hand. If nothing else, Democracy 3 will reflect the infuriating difficulty of weighing popular opinion against neccessary choices. Do you raise taxes in order to fund an important new law that will greatly decrease pollution? What about your failing infrastructure, education or unemployment? Come election time, your efforts will likely be ignored and condemned for these dreaded taxes. No, Democracy won't really surprise you in that regard or, in fact, in any other. You are strictly limited to a two-party 'democratic' system that is eerily fashioned after the United States of America of present times. There is no real opposition here or dynamic events that might shake things up proper, you merely play with yourself against turn countdowns and voter approval. Positech should have taken inspiration from more interesting - and stable - multi-party systems such as that of Sweden, Denmark, Germany, France or successful non-European nations such as Japan, India or even Indonesia in order to break away from the binary, black-and-white ordeal that is this game.
