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
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http://www.positech.co.uk/democracy2/marketing/devscreen3.jpg