Разработчик: Stardock Entertainment
Описание
Your goal: Win the hearts and minds of America’s voters to achieve victory in the 2016 presidential election. Play as one of more than a dozen candidates such as Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, and more!
Think you can do better than the other candidates? Create your own candidate from scratch and show the rest of those windbags how to make a real run for the White House. Take to the campaign trail and try to out talk, outsmart, and out spend your opponents!
The Political Machine 2016 features updated relevant political topics from across the 2016 presidential campaign. Dozens of national issues including the Keystone XL Pipeline, human trafficking, and the Iran Nuclear Deal have been added, with more updates on the way as the season continues. Regional issues require the candidate to walk a fine line between appealing to the widest range of voters or appearing to “flip flop.”
Gaining favor from your voters by interviewing on talk shows might grant you some sympathy, but not everything can be swept under the rug forever. You must always be on the lookout for career-ending scandals like a torrid affair, natural disaster, or an unsavory email trail. They can pop up at any time and change the course of the campaign -- which can put you down in the polls!
Do you think you have what it takes? Take to the campaign trail and show the nation why you should be the next President of the United States of America!
Core Features
- Time for some Mudslinging! - Use your power and money to purchase ads to discredit your opponent and influence voters.
- Dozens of Candidates - Play as one of several pre-made past and present candidates like Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, and more.
- Turn Friends into ‘Frenemies’ - Challenge a friend for the presidency in multiplayer mode.
- Create a Candidate - Not a fan of the candidates? Create your own custom front runner and race for the White House.
- Out-talk, Out-smart, and Out-spend your opponents - Gain favor with the public by interviewing on talk shows, navigate disastrous random events, and buy advertisements to gain an advantage over your adversary.
- Practice your Politics - A sophisticated underlying simulation model uses census data and real issues to test your political savvy.
- Be Ready for Anything - Torrid affairs, natural disasters, email scandals, and other random events can come out of nowhere and change the direction of the campaign for better or worse.
- Check your Standings - With poll tracking and leaderboards, you can see how well people are playing as their candidates or what issues they are supporting over time.
Поддерживаемые языки: english
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *: Windows 10 / 8.x / 7
- Processor: 1 GHz Processor
- Memory: 1 GB RAM
- Graphics: 64 MB DirectX 9.0c 3D Video Card with Pixel Shader 2.0 Support
- DirectX: Version 9.0c
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 1 GB available space
- Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c Compatible Sound Card
- Processor: 2 GHz Processor
- Graphics: 128 MB DirectX 9.0c 3D Video Card with Pixel Shader 2.0 Support
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Great Game
I've been holding off to write a review for this game for a while. I wanted to get a complete review out, and now, 33 hours later, I feel like I'm finally ready to write a complete review. So, here it is. My review for The Political Machine 2016. Let me just clarify that I did not play The Political Machine 2012.
Summary:
The Political Machine 2016 is an election simulator made by Stardock Entertainment. In this game, you can simulate the presidential election with a variety of candidates. If you play your cards right, you can come out on top with all 50 states, or, if you utterly fail, you can end up being humiliated by your political rival. Whether you win or lose is entirely up to you.
Candidates:
Some of the candidates included are candidates in the early stages of the 2016 Presidential election. This includes Chris Christie, Marco Rubio, Bernie Sanders, and Ted Cruz. This is only a small amount of the candidates. There are also memorable politicians such as Sarah Palin, Nancy Pelosi, Michelle Obama, and John Kerry. There are of course many more potential candidates than this, including some independents who barely agree with the party they are placed with(Gary Johnson is a Republican, and Michael Bloomberg is a Democrat). However, with the DLC, many more candidates are added, such as Jimmy Carter and Richard Nixon. I won't spoil the rest, since part of the fun is finding out who the other candidates are. There are a total of 6 candidates to beat(and unlock) for each party.
Game Mechanics:
Once you start your campaign towards the White House, there are many things to need to do. You can upgrade your Campaign Headquarters to bring in more cash rather than fundraising(trust me, you'll need to fundraise either way. Campaign Headquarters only bring in about $90,000, which is tiny compared to the costs of ads.). You can also build Outreach centers, which help you get endorsement points. Endorsements are very important, and can change the whole election for the better or for the worse. The last building you can build is a Consulting Office. These help give you points to hire operatives, which are crucial to the game. Operatives can give you a strategic advantage in certain states(such as keeping the rising democrat ratings in California when you have awareness maxed out), and can help you secure a victory.
The next mechanic in the game is ads. You can make Ground game ads, which are small ads promoting a certain view. They are extremely cheap, but very weak. If you want to get your views out there, you're gonna have to spend a lot more. This will let you place a TV ad, which can shift certain state demographics outside of the state you placed the ad in. TV ads are very useful, but very expensive. Use them wisely. The other extremely useful mechanic is the speech mechanic. Speeches can shift entire states, and allow you to turn that state towards your side, if your awareness is low. Be careful, however, since speeches in states with maxed out awareness can hurt you. The final crucial mechanic is fundraising. At some point in your campaign, you will lose money, in which case you will need to fundraise. In richer states, you can earn up to $450,000. This is a lot of money, when compared to the amount some less populated states will give you.
Playability:
This game is very fun. With the amount of variables such as Candidates and demographics, this will keep you very entertained. Also, with the campaign DLC, you could be spending a lot of time trying to get the really good characters. At some point, you will hit a wall, though. That is unfortunate about this game, since the first 10-20 hours are very fun(or even 30 hours in my case).
Errors:
While most of the time the game runs very smoothly, it does occasionally crash and freeze. I've seen many cases where I finish giving a speech, only to see the game run extremely slow, causing me to restart the game. And when the game restarts, it sets you back. It doesn't save where you left off, it set you back about 4 weeks. This is very annoying. Another issue is when a certain black box appears in the middle of the screen and breaks the game. Restart, setting the game back. This is by far the most annoying part of the game.
Final Verdict:
In the end, I'm very glad I bought this game. I feel like I got my money's worth. With all the candidates, and the possible creation of a custom candidate, this game is well worth the $9.99 price tag. The mechanics in the game are very smooth. While there are many glitches and crashes, and the game does hit a wall in terms of replayability, it was an overall fun experience. The Campaign DLC is worth it's price tag. In the end, I feel like this game was well worth the money I paid for it. With all factors considered, I'm going to give this game a final score of 84/100. I liked most of the game, however, I feel like Stardock could have done more to fix errors and put more things into the game. If they put those things in, this game is easily a 90/100. So, I leave you with that score and a lot to think about. If you are considering buying this game, understand that it may be not the most accurate, but it is certainly more fun than most political sims out there.
Its possible to make California vote Republican and Texas vote Democrat. Unrealistic 10/10
You can lose Oklahoma as a Republican. You can win Alaska as a Democrat.
Also, remember to campaign in Kentucky, it's hard to win there for whatever reason.
Also, I wish that you could have debates.
That'd be fun.
Game's fun but not realistic.
This game rocks and it's fun to run your own simulation with the issues that matter to you and the nation. You can visit every state by plane and make speeches, create local and television ads, solidify the issues to attract voters, and orchestrate a strategy to win the White House.
Pretty accurate to the electoral college system, despite D.C. not included with its 3 electoral votes. Ohio, the famous swing state today, is very spot on with its split-divisiveness among the voters in regard to who they want to pick for President. Florida, however, as the other important swing state seems to be much easier for Democrats to win and isn't too resemblant to how it swings today.
The use of personal assets acquired from a point system called "Political Capital" are very amusing and satisfying to use in order to help your campaign. You could have an Advertisement Guru help reduce your ad costs or even a Spin Doctor to improve your ratings in a certain state. Or at the most dramatic, a Fixer to remove your opponent's assets. It's dirty but heck it sure is fun. You can also earn Endorsements to help raise awareness of your campaign and gain voter support.
Unfortunately, the Green and Libertarian Parties aren't included in the races you can run, even with Jill Stein and Gary Johnson being in the game (the 2016 third-party candidates). In the DLC, the historical Federalist and Democratic-Republican Parties aren't in there either. So the issue here is it's strictly just the Republicans and Democrats running against each other and therefore lacks political diversity.
But overall, it's a fun game of theory and American political fansy. Probably the closest thing on Steam to a political game.
> Ran as white supremacist Pepe the Frog
> Tried being as offensive as possible to deliberately lose support
> Went to Texas
> Said I support violence in videogames, an issue with both parties did not like
> Got +2 rating in that state for my speech reguardless
> Eventually won against Hillary Clinton
10/10 Would make America white again.
Fun, witty little parody of the U.S. electoral process. You can create custom candidates and choose between a very wide range of issues for them to stand for or against, from #blacklivesmatter to saving the bees!
CONS: The game starts at the general election between two candidates. I would have enjoyed the primaries in this game. Also, you can only associate with the two party system. I would have enjoyed being able to pick third parties, or better yet, being able to make a custom party.
Very good game. But I wish I could also choose anorther political party for example, Libertarian Party and Green Party. Or be able to make my own political party.
This game I've put way too many hours into just out of creating characters with friends and having them go at it. In terms of an actual game, it's the exact same as its predecessor. Not at all worth the money. Especially when they have Jill Stein as a Dem and Gary Johnson as a Rep...
Things to add:
3rd Party support (at the very least the Green and Libertarian parties)
Debates
Primaries
Add these three and the game immediately becomes great (again).
It is not worth $10. I bought it for 5 and it seems about right. It is an indie political simulator. I would only say buy if:
It is on sale
You love politics
You live in America
If you have none of these I think it is a miss for you.
I enjoy it, don't get me wrong. I am trying to be honest, which is ironic if you play this game.
This is a fantastic, well-made, pretty accurate game. I'm impressed with how thorough and expansive this game is. I'm not here to criticize this, as in my almost 20 hours this week of this game I have only found one pressing issue. I just want to give some suggestions to potentially better the game. Pretty fantastic idea, having custom characters btw.
1. Add the option for a third-party candidate.
Maybe create a conglomeration of parties for this? Libertarian, Green, and normal Independent. This could add an interesting and fun alternative to the normal process.
2. Add debates! This would add such a fun and potentially game-changing aspect to the election cycle. You could put the option on the game setup screen, where you could set the number of debates from a minimum of 0 to a maximum of say, 6?
3. I don't know how practical it would be so this is a tentative suggestion. Maybe add an option for a three-way election? Pit all three parties (assuming you add a third party) against each other! Or two of one party against one of another! Or three people from the same party! Just a cool thought, if you couldn't implement it that's understandable.
4. Make the point system for issues better. This is my one issue with the game. When creating a custom character, there are 20+ issues that you only have 100 points to spread over. Maybe lessen issues, or add more points, or make it require less points to strongly be for or against an issue. It's not game-ruining, but it can get a bit frustrating when trying to truly customize a character.
5. This is to potentially help diversify gameplay even more. Maybe, when you get the option to randomize issue importance, have a customize option? I'd understand if you don't allow games with customized issue importance to go on leaderboards or something (too easy to tailor issues for you to win) but I think it would add a cool element to elections. For example, I made an Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis character and have been trying to randomize issues to include Ending Human Trafficking, BlackLivesMatter, and Confederate Flag Display, or issues related to the civil war. Obviously, with the depth of issues in the game it's nearly impossible to get the election centered around exactly what I want, and it made me think of adding that kind of option.
So that's it. I think this is an amazing game, and I'll be playing it a lot in the months to come. Hope my review and suggestions helped!
9.5/10 stars from me
It's fun to play as Trump and stump people, but the game seems to have a strong Democrat bias. You have a higher chance of winning the game if you play as someone like Hillary or Bernie, while this is true in real life, it turns people off from playing as Republicans. The custom character customizer could also be better. The game is fun, but also lacks a lot of features such as debating. You also shouldn't be able to change you're politican of picks stances on the fly. For example, I could go into New York playing as Donald Trump saying that I support illegal immigration, but can then go into Texas and say I do not support illegal immigration without any consequences. It's a great game, fun and relaxing, but misses some features. 7/10.
The Political Machine 2016 is the fourth game in the series (the earlier three being The Political Machine, The Political Machine 2008, and The Political Machine 2012) and I'm sorry to say the game hasn't matured much, if at all, since it's original incarnation back in 2004.
TPM2016 is a turn-based strategy game where you play a candidate running for the office of President of the United States. You can adjust the game's length, difficulty, and starting wealth, but assuming you're aiming to play a full run for POTUS, you're looking at 52 weeks (or turns) of gameplay.
You can choose from a mix of recent politicians (from both the Republican and Democrat parties) and even choose historical presidents, such as George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Teddy Roosevelt. You can also create your own character, which is nice since it allows you to tailor your candidate's political attributes, as opposed to using whatever was preset for real politicians.
When creating your own politician, I would've liked the capability to choose "independent" as my party choice, instead of being stuck with either Democrat or Republican. Granted, someone from one of those two parties always wins, but part of the fun of video games is seeing what you can do, even if the end result is hardly realistic.
While playing you can establish various offices, hire operatives (some of whom boost your own ratings and others who reduce your opponent's ratings), gain endorsements, have print or television ads made, and give speeches on numerous subjects. In addition to promoting your own platform, you can also attempt to discredit your opponent.
You might also gain some operatives (none of whom you could hire normally) through special events, and get invited on to TV shows. The news shows are parodies of real political talk shows and require you to answer questions within a set time limit.
As a light-hearted attempt to portray the mad rush of a presidential campaign, TPM2016 succeeds nicely. Unfortunately, that's where the game's positives end.
1. The graphics are atrocious, although this has been a problem since TPM2008. All the characters look like deformed bobble head dolls. I realize that's to keep the overall theme jovial, but it ruins the immersion. This is made worse by the character creator being absolutely awful in how it integrates the characters, so instead of the game realizing that hair needs to adjust its height and depth based on head shape, the player has to do it all manually. It's tedious and completely unnecessary.
2. Certain actions, like giving speeches, inexplicably fail after a while. At first your speeches will probably net you a small gain in state approval (something like 2% or so), but as time goes on, you'll get stuck at 0%, regardless of how much the voters agree with you.
3. Certain operatives, like the Fixer (who is supposed to remove a targeted opposing candidate's operative in that state) doesn't work properly. The instructions say to left-click the Fixer and then right-click him on an opposing operative to remove him, but all it does is move the Fixer around. That's it.
4. TPM2016 is very black or white in its approach. You're either a full-blown Republican or a die-hard Democrat. There's no room for anything in-between. Admittedly, politics in the US can be like this at times, but nobody is 100% one side or the other. Perhaps if an independent option were added this wouldn't be a problem.
So, would I recommend The Political Machine 2016? If it were just a case of "I don't particularly care for the game's design," then I'd still vote yes, but it's more than that. The game seems broken in some ways, so I can't recommend a product that doesn't work like advertised. Maybe a few patches will be released and if that happens, I'll amend this review, but until that occurs, I'll have to say "no, I don't recommend it."
I truly love the political machine franchise but my disappointment only comes from one thing. Actual gameplay additions.They basically just changed the year and canidates thats it same everything. The long time fans of this series have seen little to no change. The biggest disappointments which the community has been asking for are primaries and 3rd party runs also the ability to even create your own party as a third party and run. Those 2 little additions would of made this game so much more replay-able I've only done one election so far and it felt the same unfortunately. Hopefully they end up adding third parties and primaries with an update when that happens I'll change my review and rate it 10/10! But as it stands it is a 6/10 but if you are a long time fan i wouldn't recommend this because of the lack of new features if you are new then give it a shot! Im sure you'll enjoy the charm of it.Also bring back historical campaigns and unlocks from the orginal political machine those were awesome!
Needed Additions:
-Custom maps(customization of EV,add states,delete states,modify polls,modify stats/issues)
-3rd parties(also customization of them)
-Primaries
-Historical campaigns and unlocks brought back
-extensive modability
-debates
current state:6/10
It's the same exact game as the Political Machine 2012. Same graphics. Same music. Same random events. Same glitches. Same *everything*. Stardock slapped a 2016 sticker on the previous game and decided to charge people $10 for it.
A bit of history: TPM2008 was notable for bringing the series into 3D. It featured a mode where you'd face former presidents (from Nixon and Kennedy to Lincoln and Washington) to unlock more playable characters. It even had different election year scenarios, allowing players to run for President during the Civil War (among others) and to formulate a campaign to win voters during that time period. It was educational and fun. TPM2012 stripped away these modes, and only allowed players to run the 2012 campaign.
TPM2016 is literally the same exact game as 2012. Swap out a few uneletectable presidential candidates and a few issues (instead of running on a platform based on reforming the economy, you'll be basing it on national security, the environment, or Black Lives Matter) and you have TPM2016.
The same glitches are still there from previous versions. Every few games, I'm randomly blocked from using Political Capital (to hire more staffers). When attempting to select my veep, constant pop-up messages come up telling me that my opponent got endorsed by a political group. After a campaign is over and I'm reviewing the map one final time, music from the “results” screen and the “map” screen play at the same time. Bottom line: Glitches are fine and are to be expected, but not when the SAME glitches have been in your game series for over *eight years*. It's clear that the game hasn't been tested, or that Stardock just doesn't care.
The voter demographics are still wonky too. Republicans can easily win Vermont, Connecticut, and Oregon (Dem strongholds), but rarely win New Hampshire (tossup state). Democrats can easily win Tennessee and West Virginia (GOP strongholds). Little things like that, turn what could be a (somewhat) educational game into a free-for-all with no redeeming values.
As I previously said, this game is the same game as TPM2012, right down to the main menu and graphics. I couldn't imagine another strategy game (like Civilization) repackaging the same game every four years, changing a spreadsheet or two, and tossing it out into the market. Don't support Stardock and this lazy money grab.
TL;DR: Avoid this game. If you are a political junkie, pick up TPM2008 off Amazon or eBay for a few bucks. There are guides online on how to mod the game to your liking. It's really easy to add more characters and modify the current-day issues. You'll get twice the game for half the price.
Lost the popular vote by 4% to Bernie Sanders, yet crushed him in the election.
11/10 would abuse electoral system again :P
I also played a Republican that won 46 states, including CA and NY, yet lost Mississippi. Most realistic sim eva!
So probably not that surprisingly this Political Machine is almost exactly the same as the previous 2012 version. And yes its early access, but really that does not mean that much, they’re going to add a few issues as they arise throughout the next year probably, and yes it does have the current political heavy weights, but that does not change the gameplay in any significant way.
It lacks depth, depth I’m sure the audience this game appeals to would not be turned off by. On top of that the game does not have primary debates, or presidential debates, the most exciting/significant aspect of the political season is simply omitted. Basically this game amounts to a low effort money generator for the developers.
Ok, so it's my first game, right?
I create Politron, a robot with no Intelligence, Religious or Credibility, but top Charisma, Appearance, and Media Bias.
I decide to run against Trump.
Knowing that a Republican hasn't become president without holding Florida in recent years, I make sure that Trump can't have it.
I spend turns there, trying to get people to like me while Trump tours the nation.
On the last turn of my 21 round game, Trump goes to Florida and gives a speech about Securing the Borders.
Florida immediately turns Solid Red, while I am left dumb-founded
Every state but California, Oregon, Washington, and Massachusetts votes the Donald
11/10 would get stumped by Trump again
Its basically not changed at all from the previous version. There are some UI differences and the issues and candidates have changed, but its still not recommendable at this point (particularly if you've played the previous games). One area its weakest on is on the answers republican candidates have during interviews. Republicans have plenty of talking points they could be repeating (however correct those points are) but instead they get stuck with answers that don't fit the candidate at all. Answers need to be written so that they fit the candidate saying them (even if they are stupid answers).
Other areas they could have improved (but didn't) from the previous game include
- Your Running Mate: Your running mate is still useless. They can't hold any rallies or do anything more than what they did in the last game (give you more awareness in their state).
- Radio: They've actually outright removed this. But didn't bother to replace it with anything so now you just have "the ground game" (very cheap with limited outreach) and TV.
- Internet/Social Media: There is no internet/social media component to the game. Even though this has played a huge part in this election.
Overall it seems like Stardock only put the absolute minimum amount of effort required into this release.
Update: I just tried this game again. Apparently in March (many months after I had purchased this) they started offering old customers of the 2012 game with the much cheaper option to upgrade. Well great guys, only months late on that one.
Then the company released a DLC that basically provides a minor number of improvements that frankly should have been in the base game.
So basically its really disappointing to see Stardock drop the ball here.
Update #2: Got an update today. The game still is very disappointing. Played as trump and this is the only answer I was given for an interview despite the fact that trump would never say this and I had the all of the speech/ad/intervew operatives.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=791868611
Pretty much the same as the last two, with updated candidates and an improved user interface. However, it's a pretty good game. It's much simpler than 270soft’s President Forever, which is now called President Infinity, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. President Infinity can feel bogged down; the game can sometimes feel like a chore, and little mistakes like barnstorming with low stamina in a key state can ruin you instantly (I’m looking at you, Ohio and Florida). TPM is quick and fun, but there are certain strategies which will assure victory on all but the highest of difficulty settings. After TPM 2012 came out, I was really hoping they would include primaries in this one, but I guess not. Where President Infinity is more realistic, TPM can be more fun. There’s no happy medium.
If you’re a political junkie or *gasp* want an insight into how elections break down, I’d say that this game is definitely worth the asking price. The past version saw a small free expansion pack released partway through its lifecycle which added in historical candidates like Richard Nixon… I mean… me. Whereas that hasn’t been confirmed for this release, I have seen Marco Rubio pick Abraham Lincoln (an unplayable character right now) as his running mate, so I assume it’s coming.
Pick it up and give it shot.
Basically the same game as its predecessor. Still nice to see the 2016 candidates in game. The game has been polished to feel more modern, ie the menu and user-interface have been updated. However at its core this game is almost identical to the last iteration.
I made a video showing off a bit of gamplay if you're interested: https://youtu.be/6Ciot_ZL5tY
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Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Stardock Entertainment |
| Платформы | Windows |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 22.01.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 78% положительных (542) |