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President Forever 2008 + Primaries (2006)

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Review

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This 2D election management game packs a mighty punch. The graphics are nothing to write home about and there's basically no music or sound effects to speak of and yet because it's a fairly unique game and does what it needs to well, it is an easy recommend to politics buffs. Nothing much else to say other than each full run through (primaries to the election) will take about 2 hours to complete (with no restarts) but you can save whenever you like so you can play through a campaign in 1 or 2 sittings. For variety it's nice to pick out of all the candidates and the easy to use editor means that the village idiot can put him/herself into the game in a matter of about 15-20 minutes. This mode also allows you to change the starting funds and points of the candidates so to make it more or less challenging although it should be known that it's not too difficult to win as the major parties on "Hard" difficulty with a little practice.

The game does suffer a little from repetition but only really after the first 10 or so campaigns and is a game you can come back to on and off quite easily. I'll be putting up a video of the other Theoryspark forever games - Chancellor Forever and PM Forever (UK) and amalgamate them into one video to demonstrate, however, in my opinion the US version is the most fun and interesting and is basically how I now know where all the US states are (definately educational).

Anyway, here's the link for the game: http://theoryspark.com/political_games/president_forever/info/index.htm
And Hopefully the resolution of the video isn't too crap.

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