A satirical arcade-adventure about the English elections, where you can even pick "sincerity" up as an item - and if you take too much of it, you'll probably smash the system.
2,5/5
Review by YOR on 16 Dec 2017 (Rating: 2)
All the fun of politics (smear, scandal and crisis) without the boring speeches, too bad they left the fun out of it and made it boring instead. I see what they were trying to do here, all the election games were text-based decision management games and they wanted something more arcady and thrilling, but they did not succeed, because this is boring and confusing.
1987 Virgin Games (UK)
by JAM
This is a peculiar game. It's based upon the U.K. national elections, and features real life inspired characters such as Matcher, the Quoon, etc.
What makes it different from the other strategy election games is the arcade element. In fact the game is more of an arcade adventure than anything else.
You control one of the candidates, and go around the U.K. in search of votes. If you gather 101, you win the election. You meet a lot of different characters, all portrayed only by the it's head, you then can interact with them and select a variety of options in order to gain it's vote. You can just give money, or any other incentive, which includes objects you find around the city. You can also canvass or even slur the other candidates. There are four, all headed by their party leader, which you can also engage with if they cross your way.
Each character has a different personality and political ideology (or none) and can be used for different purposes, some are useful to slur the other candidates, others are useful to influence someone. "The Quoon" is one of those characters.
Even if the game is a bit confusing (the news of other candidates actions are hard to read), the game is quite enjoyable, although after awhile it can became a bit repetitive. But overall I really like it.