![]() This is a fairly late pre-beta version, but I expect that even more policies will be added before the game’s release. This allows for almost unlimited variety of choice in building one’s ideal government (or responding to the reactions of the game’s electorate) and it is impressive to see just how many types of policies and decisions can be made. Other policies operate using a tiered level system, such as deciding the balance between Creationism and Evolution in school curriculum, with the far left notch being Creationism only, and the far right notch being Evolution only, with a spectrum of levels in between. For a larger investment in political capital, policies can be cancelled outright. Some of the sliders indicate funding levels, so players can decided that they might want to, for example, defund Food Stamps, fund alternative fuel source research, or reduce the size of the military. Using a slider to change a policy is both simple and satisfying. In order to implement or change a policy, the player must have and expend a certain amount of political capital that accumulates each turn, influenced largely by the player’s choice of ministers in his or her cabinet. ![]() Just like the previous title, Democracy 3 has players make decisions in running the country in two main ways – implementing new policies from a fairly detailed list or altering already implemented policies through a simple slider. This is extremely important, given that running a Democracy, not to mention winning elections (perhaps the most important goal of the game), requires a well-informed player. The simplicity of the UI used by the Democracy series allows players to get a plethora of information with very little effort, hovering over key policies and modifiers or hot linking from faction to faction. Like many of Positech’s newer releases, Democracy 3 now sports full HD resolution and a fairly simple but functional UI. I got a chance to look at a near-Beta version of the third incarnation of Positech’s game of political intrigue and national management and I am happy to report that it is a news junkie and amateur pundit’s dream.ĭemocracy 3 follows the model of its predecessor fairly closely and, at first glance, the changes appear to be subtle. Cliff Harris and his UK-based company Positech Games (known by Grogs for Gratuitous Space Battles and Gratuitous Tank Battles) want you to put your bragging to the test in their upcoming governance simulation, Democracy 3. Have you ever watched the news or CSPAN and thought, “I can do better than those guys?” Well, with Congress’s approval rating at a low of 15%, chances are that you have.
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