Ahh, don’t you just love politics and how dirt gets dug up much faster than how a mole tunnels through your yard? The Political Machine 2008 is one strategy game for the PC, having been updated to include new vice presidential candidates complete with a host of compelling new features that enables users to whip up their own content that can be shared with their friends. This title is unique as you don’t assassinate anyone physically – just politically in a high-stakes game for survival, placing players in the role of a Presidential candidate on the campaign trail. Activities range from making speeches to buying ads, hiring spin doctors and consultants, raising money, and going on cable news shows.

The updated version of the title includes vastly enhanced multiplayer features including supporting match-making via Stardock’s Impulse, allowing for better online play. It also includes features allowing players to print out bumper stickers and campaign pins from within the game: Players can create their own candidates, controlling everything about them in how they look, and then export them as an avatar for on-line use or use the new print shop to create a variety of physical media with their creations including campaign pins, bumper stickers, and more. The update adds the new vice presidential candidates, Joe Biden and Sarah Palin to be incorporated into campaigns as well. Real-world scenarios are mixed in with fantastical scenarios. Players can choose the U.S. 2008 election, an election in history, or play in fun and humorous fantasy campaigns including one that takes place on an alien world and one that takes place in “Europa”. Players can also choose what television shows to be a guest on and will face tough questions from the hosts of shows like “The Colvert Report” and “The O’Malley Factor.”

You can pick this title up for $19.95 either in a physical format or via Stardock’s digital download platform, Impulse.

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