Positech Games, makers of Democracy (www.democracygame.com) Kudos (www.kudosgame.com) and The recently released Kudos:Rock Legend (www.rocklegendgame.com) have today officially announced their next game, Democracy 2.
Democracy 2 is a direct sequel to their popular and award-winning political strategy game 'Democracy'. Like it's predecessor, Democracy 2 puts you in the position of the leader of a new government, tasked with running the country, and keeping the electorate happy in the run up to each election. Democracy 2 will retain the emphasis on complexity, depth and gameplay of the original, with a more sophisticated AI model under the hood, but a similar visual approach to managing all the myriad laws, policies and decisions of your government.
Unlike the original game, Democracy 2 will not model real world countries, but give the player a 'virtual country' sandbox to tweak and adjust as they see fit.
No release date is currently set, although it will certainly be 2007 / Q1 2008.
The very first development screens can be found here:
http://www.positech.co.uk/democracy2/marketing/devscreen1.jpg
http://www.positech.co.uk/democracy2/marketing/devscreen2.jpg
http://www.positech.co.uk/democracy2/marketing/devscreen3.jpg
i think 30 years from now, it will be the same as it is now
..but I think 30 years from now, supporters of "democracy" will be seen as radical left-wing hippie nut jobs, in the same way that Communists were in the 50s.
"...will not model real world countries..."maybe they got some heat from certain parties or Political Action Committees for too much 'truthiness' with the first one.
What award?