In the end, you just feel like you're not making a whole lot of difference. Nations develop over the course of years and decades, and there are so many things that can affect their economies and destinies. After dealing with the umpteenth worker strike or having to once again tell your intelligence director that you do not want to destabilize another country, you may find yourself longing to return to the simpler strategy games; the ones that only task you with destroying the enemy off the map.
IGN Ratings for Geo-Political Simulator (PC)
Presentation - 6.0
Graphics - 5.0
Sound - 4.0
Gameplay - 5.5
Lasting Appeal - 5.0
Overall -
MarkyX from TGH writes:
"I wouldn't mind the anarchic nature of politics, if the game gave me an idea on what the hell I'm supposed to do. There isn't a manual that comes with the game (or at least not in PDF), and the tutorial is simply non-interactive movies that show you how to navigate the interface. Otherwise, when chaos strikes your beloved country, you are out there on your own. The most common example of the frustration in my games was the labor unions constantly protesting when I cut income tax by half a percent. Now why are they protesting? I don't know, they just keep saying they are pissed off at me. It would be nice if the game would advise me on what to do, or at least tell me why the union wants to bite off my head. Instead, all I get is some barely pseudo-English words being spewed at my direction..."
Will you negotiate or drive a hard bargain?
Eversim deserves points for even trying to create something so ambitious, but in this instance their reach exceeded their grasp. Geo-Political Simulator is an enjoyable enough way to pass the time, but it isn't quite the comprehensive simulation of global politics it wanted to be.
