The Political Machine 2012
Do you have what it takes to be president? Play as more than 20 candidates including Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Ron Paul, Newt Gingrich or create your own candidate from scratch. Players take to…
The Political Machine 2012 is a simulator, released 31 August 2012 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What The Political Machine 2012 is
The Political Machine 2012 was released in 2012. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Do you have what it takes to be president? Play as more than 20 candidates including Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Ron Paul, Newt Gingrich or create your own candidate from scratch. Players take to the campaign trail against a computer controlled opponent or a human challenger over the Internet. The goal: win the hearts and minds of America's voters to achieve victory in the 2012 presidential election.
How it plays
Its themes are 4x (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate), comedy, fantasy and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
How it was received
The Political Machine 2012 holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 15% of the 2,882 rated simulator games in our database, which average 71. Games released in 2012 averaged 70, so it scored 10 points below the year average.
What it launched against
The Political Machine 2012 launched on 31 August 2012, within three weeks of Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition, Dark Souls: Prepare To Die Edition, Borderlands 2 and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition, Dark Souls: Prepare To Die Edition, Borderlands 2, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.
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