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8.0This Is The President is a political strategy management game where we make difficult decisions as the Commander-In-Chief of the USA.
This Is the President
SuperPAC · Dec 6, 2021
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This Is the President is an extravagant political thriller. You are the newly elected leader with a shady background. It is up to you to take full advantage of the privileges of the most powerful man in the world to escape justice for past crimes – even if that pitches the country into utter chaos.
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- Nexus Hub7.0Overall, This is the President is an engaging take on the typical management sim genre, with a strong focus on story-driven elements, that manages to charm and frustrate in equal measure. The story-driven elements serve to both elevate and detract from the overall experience. With a “president” so ridiculously compromised, there’s no shortage of interesting events over their 4-year term. However, the story-driven focus – along with other design choices – result in optional events and management elements feeling either too random or ultimately unimportant.
- NoobFeed5.5This Is The President has an interesting concept but doesn’t have strong enough narrative, dialogue, or characters to carry it the entire way through. If the game hyper-focused on just a few days, weeks, or, months it could have been a stand-out experience. However, by stretching the game to an entire four years length it loses all steam more than halfway through.
- 3rd-strike.com7.0This Is the President is a solid political thriller. It’s also more of a visual novel where you get to make choices than anything else. While there are some management elements included in the game, they are overshadowed by loads of text. However, important choices are also embedded into those texts.
- Hey Poor Player8.0This is the President is a perfectly patriotic blend of This is the Police, Suzerain, and We. The Revolution, presenting players with scandal after scandal after scandal to wriggle their way out of. Although there are a small handful of choices that corral you into picking the “right” option, the way you cope with the consequences is largely up to you. If you enjoy a novel’s worth of deranged narrative gameplay where choices matter like your life depends on them (and they do), This is the President will command enough mystery, intrigue, and excitement for even the highest of offices.
- Softpedia8.0The writing is at its best when a situation escalates from relatively believable situations into absurdity and satire. But there are just as many moments when the results of player choices feel forced or when the game is trying too hard to draw from the real world.
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