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<\/a><\/p>\nYou can tell Political Machine 2012 is a fantasy game by the fact that California isn’t a soothing shade of deep blue. Also, what is Obama doing in Texas? Dude, get out of there. Get your ass to Mars. I mean, Florida. Same difference.<\/p>\n
I love the Political Machine games for how they distill Presidential politics to a manageable and simple strategy game in which I can model myself as a candidate and beat Bruce Geryk<\/a>. I don’t love the last one for how useless the AI was. But fool me once, we can’t get fooled again, etc., etc. The point being that I can’t very well not<\/em> play a Political Machine game. Political Machine 2012 will be out this summer for $10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"yoast_head":"\nPolitical Machine 2012 is Stardock's other fantasy strategy game - Quarter to Three<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2012\/04\/04\/political-machine-2012-is-stardocks-other-fantasy-strategy-game\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Political Machine 2012 is Stardock's other fantasy strategy game - 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