![]() ![]() In this case, however, his overall assessment is very positive:Įversim’s Rulers of Nations is an absolutely massive game. ![]() On the other hand, as you may have seen from his previous reviews here, he’s not one to let serious games get off lightly on the “gaming” angle: if it bores him, he soon says so. We first asked in-house PAXsims playtester David Brynen to play around with the game for a couple of weeks, and then we offer our own thoughts below.įirst, what did David think? As an undergraduate political science student, he is precisely the sort of potential player that the game is pitched at. In it, players are presented with a truly overwhelming number of choices: c170 playable countries (plus their various regions), online or solo play, more than twenty scenarios (and a very active modding community), and many hundreds of potential decisions to make (budgetary allocations and spending priorities, legislative initiatives, fiscal and regulatory decisions, capital investments, public sector wage rates, potential meetings with domestic political figures or fellow world leaders, public pronouncements, political campaigning, military strategy, and lots more beside). There are a few global political simulations available to computer gamers-perhaps the most ambitious of them all is Rulers of Nations: Geopolitical Simulator 2, by the French simulation and serious games company EverSim.
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