Release time: Wednesday September 17th, 2008 at approximately 1pm EST.
Free political strategy game gives players a chance to run the Obama or McCain campaigns
The Political Machine Express released
September 17th - Plymouth MI. Stardock, the company behind such games as Galactic Civilizations, Sins of a Solar Empire, and Demigod has made available The Political Machine Express. This free strategy game, puts players in the role of the campaign manager of either John McCain or Barack Obama in a quest to win the white house.
Players play on the electoral map of the United States with the goal to gain the 270 electoral votes necessary to win the election. Players get 21 weeks (approximately the time candidates have between the primary season and the general election) to make speeches, raise money, buy advertisements, hire political operatives, appear on cable TV shows in order to woo voters to their side.
The game also includes a print shop which allows players to create their own bobble heads, campaign pins and bumper stickers and print them out on their home printer.
The game requires a Windows PC running either Windows XP or Windows Vista along with an Internet connection. Players can play against either the computer or other people via the Internet. The game includes Impulse, Stardock's free digital distribution platform that allows for multiplayer match making, free updates, and access to hundreds of games and applications.
The Political Machine Express is based on Stardock's hit new strategy game, The Political Machine 2008 which is available at most retail outlets.
Visit www.politicalmachine.com to download the game.
Screenshots:
Sarah Palin on the "Coldcut Report"
Title Screen
Making a campaign pin
Players can use the build in editor to create their own characters that can be turned into an avatar for on-line forums.
or
Players can find opponents either in game or from Impulse
Selecting a candidate
The main game map zoomed in
Campaign 2008 projected results (whoever wins Colorado wins the election)
Obama in Ohio
The issues in the game are based on real-world data
Making a bumper sticker
The game has a built in tutorial
Love the addition of the VPs and the print shop!
Yay. Been hoping for a demo of this. Without looking at the tutorial I did pretty poor with only 4 states going democrat at the end .
You can see a comparison of teh Express adn full version here: https://www.politicalmachine.com/express/
I'll give it a go and then decide whether my last 2 tokens should go on the full version.
I'm excited to try this demo, but I have a question since the post mentions that the demo automatically installs Impulse.
If I already have Impulse installed (I own Sins and GalCivII), will installing the demo overwrite it or will it simply not re-install? Now that Impulse is working well for me, I don't want to do anything that might change that!
Thanks in advance.
Just install it from there!
I tried to load the demo and got an error message during the load process "program requires 512MB of physical memory"
I HAVE 512MB of physical memory.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
B.
Do you have a video card with shared memory? if so, your PC has less to use because it's being used by your vid card.
Borg: While the installer has that memory check, downloading straight from Impulse does not. Go to www.ImpulseDriven.com, download that, and look under 'My Games' for Express...that should install no problem.
Hope that helps!
BoogieBac,
Thanks!. I'll give that a try tonight.
Zubaz,
Thanks for your feedback!
I have a video card that I installed some time ago. I don't know if it shares memory, but I assume it doesn't because it's not "integreted" video memory. I also have 1Gig of virtual memory. I'm don't know much about computer memory, but I would think with the combo of RAM, a video card and virtual memory, the install program should be able to figure out that it could "squeeze" the program in.
Any of those checks that REFUSE to install the game because it doesnt meet minimum specs are terrible. I remember a friend tried to install black and white which needed 256mb I think, his windows read his memory as 254mb for some reason and the game refused to install. I am pretty sure the game would have ran with the 2mb less ram. They should just have a warning or something like every other game and let you install and play the game anyway. It will probably lag or whatever but better than the game just refusing to install
Thanks, Zubaz! I found it on Impulse, installed it, and am losing my first bid for the presidency!
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