I Am Your President on PS5 from Ultimate Publishing is another game they sent to me that I always appreciate.
The concept of the game is quite simple. You are the president of the United States of America. Pick a party, or take a test to see where you fall on the spectrum, and try to keep your people happy. The decisions you make will move you around the political spectrum.
First thing you need to know, the game is satirical in nature. If you try to take it too seriously, you will probably feel like the game is taking a political stance when it really isn’t. Nobody really acts or talks this way. At one point, I was forced to make a decision on an oil spill that my son-in-law was taking the blame for, and none of the options were at all realistic. Half the fun of the game was doing outlandish stuff like trying to nuke Canada while entering a random trade agreement with Sri Lanka and watching China, for some inexplicable reason, decide it was best friends with, I think, it was Ireland. Also, Mexico and Mongolia, for some reason, hated each other.
Where this game falls apart is that the controls are horrible. Many times, I would hit a button to enter one menu and end up somewhere else entirely. Trying to do anything on the map was sort of like playing chess with a pigeon; even when I could do it sometimes, the game seemed to do whatever it wanted anyway.
Graphically, it was cute, though I enjoyed watching cardboard cutouts of people walk in and out of my office like they were on serious business. I still laugh when a random door opens that looks like a wall opens in the Oval Office, and some guy in a suit bounces into my office to tell me he has horrible news, and all that happened was some minor event like my wife is mad at me for working late.
Scoring the game kinda hurts too, because as much fun as I had with the game, I also felt endless frustration with it. The game is a 5/10 experience that, with some updates to the controls, would easily make it much better. Best wishes, and may the gaming gods bring you glory.
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