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Title: US Presidential Election games Post by: Calandale on July 22, 2014, 12:04:33 am Far and away, the best is 3M's Mr. President. Outstanding lighter game, which still manages to
give a decent (probably the best) simulation value. 1960 and Divided Republic also please me, with their CDG play and (at least in the first) very decent historical grounding. Campaign Manager felt a little weak to me. Primary elections have gotten more coverage (in terms of games) until recently. Landslide, Candidate, and Campaign Trail all give different takes on this topic. I like Candidate the most, with its bidding mechanism and taking the bandwagon effect into account. Landslide is good fun though. Campaign Trail - well, I guess it's good enough, with visits to individual cities generating votes, but the problem is that I had already seen Road to the White House, a far more extensive attempt at getting the details down with that basic framework. Road is one of those gloriously failed attempts though - it puts lots of details in, but they just don't all hang together right. Title: Re: US Presidential Election games Post by: weateallthepies on July 22, 2014, 07:50:26 am There's always "Lobsterman's Political Pandemonium Wrestling Game" ;D
http://www.downeygames.com/catalog/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=5_13&products_id=92 Actually looks to be a plays itself style replay game but the title wins. Title: Re: US Presidential Election games Post by: Calandale on July 27, 2014, 05:51:29 am New thread: http://thegamebox.gamesontables.com/index.php?topic=36.0 |