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DESCRIPTION
Game Description
WORLD SIMULATION
Power & Revolution, Geopolitical Simulator 4, is a simulation of our current world, recreating its features in-depth and across a number of domains: economic, political, military, social, financial, environmental, energetic, transportation...
All countries of the world are represented with their own features. The calculation and scenario engines include more than 100,000 data, 15,000 texts and 10 hours of recorded dialogue. A detailed and animated 3D world map helps to support the players, with all the borders, regions and important and strategic locations of the world (follow the link for details : HERE).
The game combines management stages of economics, commerce, wargames, construction, espionage, simulation, and political influence and manipulation.
Players can opt for the management of just one country or several simultaneously and design collaborative strategies to change the world's destiny. There are game settings across multiple domains: degree of activity of terrorist organizations, probabilities of natural disasters, reactivity of populations, outbreak of wars. More than twenty contextual scenarios with current events from today's world are integrated.
Players can choose to play as a head of state or as a leader of the political opposition.
BECOME A HEAD OF STATE
-Several hundred actions and legislations
As head of state or government (president, king or queen, prime minister...) of one or several countries chosen at the beginning from the 175 available, players have several hundred actions and legislations at their disposal and distributed across various thematic menus. Here are some general and detailed examples: nominate members of your government, modify a tax (nearly 30 taxes are available), establish minimum wages, business sector grants (more than 130 integrated sectors), regulation of powers of political parties, parliament, syndicates, religious institutions or associations, privatization or nationalization operations, modify the retirement age, add or remove military service, regulation of the exploitation of natural gas, alternate conduct in large urban centres, number of vacation days for school children...
-Management of state budget
The head of state player decides amounts and distribution of the state budget across all public ministries. This player determines the personnel and the salaries in the major administrative positions (teachers, medical personnel, police...) and directs spending by setting priorities among multiple budgetary pillars, for example: geriatric services, fight against cancer, support services for handicapped persons, youth employment aid, police IT, security services for the head of state, counter-spy services, student housing, agricultural research, live performance festivals, war on drugs, recycling, video games.
-Great builder
Players are the main contractors of their country. They can set up different construction sites across the map, such as nuclear plants, wind turbines, military bases, pipelines, off-shore oil rigs, high-speed train lines, airports, ports, highways, etc.
-Commander of armies and security forces
At the head of their armies, the head of state directs military operations and can give general or precise orders to each of their units. Faced with an uprising in a city, players can manoeuvre their police brigades on the city map and ensure the protection of important locations. They can declare a state of emergency, martial law or call in the national guard.
-Super communicator
At any moment, players can be heard in the media, give a televised address to calm the fervour of protesters, to promote the passing of a law, to make an official statement like a declaration of war or opening of the Olympic games. Players can also deliver an influential speech at the UN or simply make an appearance at a public place to promote their image.
-Business person
The heads of state can directly promote the development of their country by signing economic and commercial contracts with other countries in all sectors of activity, including agricultural, industrial, energy, or services. Following bilateral agreements, leaders can launch construction projects for high-speed train lines or pipelines across several countries. They can attempt to merge global economic organizations, participate in their serious decisions or even create new ones.
-An informed head of state
Of course the secret services play a predominant role in running a state. They have an arsenal of espionage and "special" operations that players can utilize, but at their own risk and peril, because if these actions are discovered it can unleash a scandal. They can investigate an adverse political party, dismantle terrorist organizations, sabotage foreign infrastructure, assassinate an opponent, send satellites or drones to spy on armed forces, etc.
-An attentive leader
During the whole game, the head of state players must always keep an eye on their popularity level, which is evidently essential during elections, in order to stay in power for as long as possible. Maintaining state accounts and the budget deficit is also an important factor for your longevity.
BECOME AN OPPOSITION LEADER
The opposition can be legal or illegal and can hold an army or not.
-Political party leader
The political parties of each country of the world are transcribed in the game with their political tendencies, parliamentary representation and electoral results. Players choose their character and attempt to take power. With the party's budget, players have multiple actions available to them: They can launch funding campaigns to increase revenue, finance violent cells likely to intervene in street clashes, purchase polls to help make the best decisions, dish out bribes, hire detectives to obtain information on influential figures... As a leader, you make the party's major decisions: give voting instructions in relation to government bills, send militants to protest in the streets, incite groups, syndicates or associations to oppose power through protest actions (strike, sit-in, blockades...), criticize the head of state's actions in the media...
-Elections candidate
The most traditional method of reaching the top seat of state is to win democratic elections. An elections campaign is long and requires a lot of attention: the candidate must design the best platform to win loyalty, go from meeting to meeting while maximizing stops on the tour in accordance with local results, manage the campaign budget, attempt to win over influential figures, participate in televised debates capable of shifting the balance at the last minute. The game includes a specific scenario dedicated to the "2016 American presidential elections".
-A plan in the shadows
The opposition can also win power by discrediting the current head of state in hopes that s/he will be removed and that new elections will be held. Opposition can also attach themselves to people in proximity to power in order to attempt a military or criminal coup. At the head of the uprisings, they give instructions and manipulate the insurgents, hooligans, or armed extremists on the ground. Finally, they can opt for illegality and engage in armed combat.
-Leader of an illegal organization
At the head of a terrorist organization (or several) on their own soil, players attempt to take power by force, to normalize or to obtain independence of controlled regions. Your action possibilities are great: recruitment operations, hire professional mercenaries, purchase weapons on the black market, agreements with countries, sister political parties or other terrorist organizations in order to receive financing, fighters or war equipment, request UN interventions via friendly nations, infiltrate power circles by coup attempts or political assassinations, secure networks against enemy secret services, launch peaceful protests, trigger insurrections through political manipulation, start civil wars, command and direct armed rebels...
-Warlord
Players can hold a real warring army at the beginning of the game or develop one over time, which can be deployed in contested areas. Players control all military manoeuvres, on the overall map of the country but also locally during each city capture. Even though these armies are often less powerful, they are difficult to locate when they remain in their area of origin and when they frequently change position. If players manage to topple the presidential palace in the capital or obtain independence in regions under presidential control, they then become a new global leader.
REALISTIC WARGAMES
-Wars between nations
For the military aspect, the game integrates an extremely realistic wargame with great detail and the potential for different types of units according to the country and the precise location of their military bases. The player, as army commander, can direct each unit independently, give general orders or plan a series of orders. Thanks to the mini-map, players can have an extensive overview of their different fronts. Players also have the option to delegate the military operations to an army commander, controlled by the artificial intelligence.
-Civil wars and terrorists
Current civil wars are reproduced in the game with precision.
The world map includes all conflict locations with the finest details: front lines, occupied territories, besieged cities, localized military units, international military bases, personnel and material of terrorist groups...
Numerous scenarios allow the player to play as different protagonists in the conflicts: "War in Syria and Iraq", "Mess in Ukraine", "Libya Chaos", "Terror in Nigeria", "Yemeni Puzzle", "Threats in Somalia", "Revolutions! ", "Separatism"...
-Battles in the cities
During civil or military clashes in the cities, wargame stages take place on maps detailed with the main buildings, squares and intersections (specific maps for major capitals). Various elements can be controlled by the player: protesters, hooligans, armed extremists, rocket launchers... if the player is playing as the opposition; but there are also anti-riot police, police vans, helicopters, snipers, armoured vehicles... if the player is playing as the established power. The battle sequence can evolve in relation to the occupation of iconic places (for example, major squares with barricades) or the seizure of buildings (parliament, television studio, bank, headquarters...). The population reacts to the sequence of events: first civilian casualties, televised actions, order to fire at will or bombard, liberation of prisoners...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Each factor of the world reacts in accordance to your own settings and interests.
-Lobbies and major figures
All actions of the player have repercussions and the lobbies, social groups, and important national and international figures will intervene if their artificial intelligence deems necessary So they are directly part of their own approval or discontent, but they are also capable of more radical and harmful actions for the player's popularity rating: press interviews, resignations, protests, strikes, unrest, road blocks, war...
-Dialogues and meetings
To prevent tensions, players can meet any important figure in meetings and attempt to win them over, negotiate (an agreement with a syndicate, an economic contract, or a strategic alliance with a head of state, for example an interest rate with an international lender). Players can also try to corrupt other figures or make them sing.
The dialogues that take place depend on the characters of these persons, their empathy towards the player and the defence of their interests.
All major figures are represented by a 3D face and express themselves orally. All scenarios, interventions and dialogues make for more than 15,000 texts and 10 hours of recorded dialogue.
-Parliament
Each law proposition must be voted on in Parliament where democratic regimes prevail, or by the people if a referendum process exists in the country. Whether the law is passed depends on the votes of the different political parties represented in Parliament, which also match reality.
-International organizations
The international organizations (more than 50 organizations integrated) are also represented and interact with the heads of state. For example, the European Union, G7, or OPEC hold regular summits in order to vote on major orientations; in the UN, it is possible to denounce a nation to obtain the authorization to intervene militarily.
The countries' votes are the result of a complex calculation aligned with different protagonists and the evaluation of the proposition in relation to the political regimes of these countries.
Players can also create their own organization by defining the type (free trade zone, monetary union, political/military organization, exporting countries), the budget, the geographic area, its constitution (voting system, head of state meetings, shared political tendencies...).
-Power & Revolution
At the head of a state, players find themselves faced with opponents whose reactions are weighed at every stage: decision to send armed elements into riots, peaceful protest in authoritarian regimes, alliance with the army, mobilizing paramilitaries on the ground, occupation of cities, etc.
At the head of a political party or an illegal organization, players must consider the decisions of the head of state: legislation proposed in parliament, military intervention in times of unrest, attempts to infiltrate the network, targeted bombing, defence of major buildings and especially the head of state's residence, etc.
MULTIPLE INFORMATION SOURCES
In addition to reports from department secretaries, the player has several sources of information: a daily newspaper that relates the planet’s major events, a discovery tree that shows technological advances and opportunities for research sectors, an evaluation of signed contracts, polls that the player can request from his or her national statistical agency, and different thematic maps, including maps showing economic and strategic alignment with all the other countries in the world. Lastly, a professor of geopolitics can provide ongoing assistance to the player throughout the game. He can explain the game’s major functional principles for politics, economy, strategy, and espionage, alert the player to problems that need to be solved in his or her country and the actions that can be taken, and provide the player with some political tips and tricks.
In addition, the game includes a Quiz to test the player’s knowledge with over 3000 questions.
The game includes a substantial number of data and various items of information, drawn from the main world data banks, in order to assess the new situation of the planet at all times. Indicated below are the details of the parameters taken into consideration. The simulations are classified into different categories.
3D Worldmap
This map identifies a large number of points and places:
mountain reliefs, detailed vegetation, cultural zones, different types of forest (broadleaf, pine, rainforests), savannas, rivers, and urban areas
all state borders and territorial waters
the division of countries into over 1,200 administrative
more than 7000 cities, with maps of major capitals
over 1,000 military bases (land, air, naval, satellite launch, communication center)
current maps of conflicts in the world with front lines, occupied territories, cities in conflict, locations of military units, international military bases
over 300 nuclear plants, offshore stations, wind farms on land and sea, solar panels sites
the 124 most important ports and 150 most important airports, high speed rail networks
gas and oil wells with the major gas and oil pipelines
over 130 mountain peaks and volcanoes
over 100 historical and cultural locations
The weather engine
This engine uses the planet’s seasonal maps and temperature projections for the 21st century to simulate the weather map.
The environment and health engine
Coupled with the weather, this engine can simulate many types of disasters:
global warming
droughts and heat waves
floods
cold snaps
volcanic eruptions (locations and risk assessment of major volcanoes)
earthquakes and tsunamis (locations and risk assessment of major fault lines)
hurricanes and tornadoes (path locations and risk assessment of major hurricanes)
epidemics (considers the triggering and aggravating factors for cholera, the plague, and the Ebola virus)
nuclear accidents (location and age of nuclear plants in the world)
forest fires (location of risk areas)
oil spills (location of risk areas)
Nations and their variables
230 countries and territories recognized by the UN are managed in the game, with about 175 playable nations. Each sovereign country includes over 600 variables in various subject areas, namely:
Geography and climate: surface area, climate type, precipitation, major natural risks, forest area...
Demographics: age pyramid, contraception, life expectancy, migration flows...
Economy: GDP, income / capita, unemployment, growth, inflation, HDI...
Economic activities: production and consumption for over 130 activity sectors including agriculture (sale of livestock, fruits and vegetables, beverages, grains), industry (various minerals, processing industries, chemistry, automobile production...), and the service sector (telecommunication, transportation, advertising, record industry...).
Energy: distribution and reserves of various energy sources (oil, gas, nuclear, hydroelectricity, new energy sources, etc.)
Commerce: major partners, balance of trade, tourism...
Budget: size and spending on various state budget items, state debt, rating with rating agencies
Taxation: list of numerous taxes and duties (VAT, bracketed income tax, tax on the wealthy, fuel taxes, taxes on alcohol...)
Money: interest rate, stock markets, currencies...
Social / Labor / Health: minimum salaries, family benefits, medical reimbursement, basic old age pension, unemployment benefits, working time, housing allowances, etc..
Society: regulations on contraception, abortion, same-sex marriage, same-sex parent adoption, physician-assisted suicide, prostitution, marijuana consumption...
Education: illiteracy, staffing and salaries, length of school vacations, level of research...
Constitution: type of regime, terms of office, election functioning, powers of Parliament...
Politics: party in power, complete list of political parties and their ideologies, formation of a Parliament, positions on major international themes, membership with major international organizations, maps of geopolitical relations between countries...
Police / Justice: crime rate, size and power of police forces and intelligence services, prisons, death penalty, traffic safety laws, etc.
Immigration: migration rate, return assistance, foreign communities
Terrorism: list of terrorist groups with their location and the assessment of their strength, their personnel and their weapons
Sects: list of different sects with evaluations of their size
Army: size, weapon details, nuclear power, weapons manufacturing, military service...
Religion: distribution and roles of different congregations
Environment: Co2 emissions, Kyoto protocol, details on the various modes of transportation...
Culture: national holiday, major cultural festivals, international museums, film, setting up the internet...
Sports: results and rankings for major sporting events, level assessment in each discipline
The character database
This database includes over 300 figures for each country, i.e. over 50,000 characters in the world, with very diverse functions: politicians, unionists, association leaders, religious figures, military figures, intellectuals, journalists, scientists, athletes, people close to the head of state...
All characters are represented with 3D faces and express themselves orally during meetings. The game includes a total of over 10 hours of dialog.
Character names reflect the linguistic roots of different countries.
The artificial intelligence algorithms determine the characters’ reactions and initiatives.
Each character has a certain number of variables (age, health, personality, competence, ambition, political affiliation, hobbies, etc.) that help establish a sort of table of opinions on the different subjects in the game. These opinions are then compared with players’ actions and changes in the world. Their behaviors are determined based on the character’s popularity and level of influence.
International organizations
These organizations intervene throughout the game. The game includes over 50 organizations, including the UN and its various branches (IMF, World Bank), major organizations (NATO, G7, OPEC, BRICS, etc.), economic organizations (European Union, CIS, Mercosur, NAFTA, the Arab League, OAU, etc.), major NGOs (international aid, human rights, environmental, alter-globalization, etc.).
Foundations for economic and scientific discoveries
Over 150 economic sectors are featured along with their production and consumption rules (costs, raw materials, transport costs, workforce qualification, productivity...).
Also included are over 100 scientific discoveries and technological advances imagined for the next 50 years to come (aids vaccine, anti-sleep molecule digital paper, optical textiles, nanorobots, holographic TV...).
The dialog and article database
There are over 15,000 messages, press articles, and reactions to characters and organizations.
The game also includes ten hours of recorded dialogs.
The historical base
Major upcoming events are part of this database: organization meetings, election dates for each country, Olympic Game dates, major cultural events, religious holidays...
New Scenarios 2017 :
Ronald Drump’s Challenge : play as the new chief executive of the United States and strive to keep your campaign promises on issues such as reducing the tax burden, stimulating the economy or the fight against illegal immigration... all while avoiding bankrupting the nation and maintaining your approval ratings with the end goal of being reelected for a second term in 2020.
War in Syria and Iraq 2017 : play as one or several warring factions in the new conflict map configuration updated as of the beginning of 2017 and strive to emerge victorious or put an end to hostilities. NB : the conflict scenarios from the beginning of 2016 will still be playable.
Gross National Happiness : improve the quality of life for your people by implementing reforms and try to raise your country’s global ranking.
French Election 2017 : play as one of the candidates in the French national elections or even the current chief of state and run a campaign, manage your budget, establish your campaign platform, participate in debates and try to get elected (or reelected) to the highest office.
Managing the Gross National Happiness: the Gross National Happiness is determined by a number of factors related to health, purchasing power, environment, education, employment and national wealth. A detailed table lets you follow different scenarios.
Selection of a specific drop site for paratroopers during a city attack, allowing you to make suprise attacks. Also, you can choose your point of entry during a first ground incursion into an enemy city.
The possibility for a chief of state to change political parties or create a new one
Saving and archiving all in-game queries
The possibility for a chief of state to bring in police reinforcements during a civil disturbance (to avoid immediately calling for a military intervention, for example)
Access to all the facts and figures from the beginning of a party in the comparative maps, allowing you to measure your progress in comparison to actual data
The possibility of taking a position for or against an auto-determination referendum
A summary of disturbances and battles past and present for a chief of state
The possibility of changing the name and flag of a newly formed country
Various gameplay improvements (calculations of election returns, AI control of player's units, escalation of simmering conflicts...)
New Content for the 2018 Edition
Conquest of Space
Blast off for the conquest of Mars, Venus, Saturn or any other planet or asteroid in the solar system. Create your own space agency if one doesn't exist, develop your space programs, build up a consortium of space agencies from various countries to increase your chances of success, expand your research areas to acquire new technology for space, build launch centers, train your astronauts, launch satellites or observation probes, construct telescopes and bases in space, discover new forms of extraterrestrial life and don't forget to watch competing space agencies because only the first one there will go down in history.
The game includes its own contextual scenarios on the conquest of space: "First Steps on Mars" and "Groundbreaking Mission".
Cybersecurity
Protect your people and vital infrastructures from cyberattacks by criminal organizations or hostile countries. It's your turn: launch cyberattacks to destabilize a country and its head of state, influence electoral results or temporarily incapacitate an enemy army. Meanwhile, watch out for leaks and head off scandals. As head of the party, invest in cyberprotection to safeguard against outside intrusion.
The fight against terrorism
Monitor the roster of potential terrorists, launch a new investigation and in each case, decide on targeted arrests. You'll have to have nerves of steel because you can be blamed either for an attack where the perpetrator was known beforehand or if you arrest an innocent person.
The game includes a new scenario on this theme: "Terrorist Threat Imminent".
USA-North Korea Gobla Conflict
After North Korea sends an unarmed intercontinental missile to the coast of the United States, tensions grow between the US and North Korean presidents. As the leader of the opposition party in the US, legally remove the current president, then eliminate the North Korean threat once and for all to prevent the start of a world war!
New Features
Internet access: development of infrastructures for broadband, 4G, super high speed and mobile communication, which will impact the economy, service operations and the well-being of the population.
Construction of highways and policy issues: the option to build new highways on maps current at the beginning of the game. The highways are appropriated by military units to mobilize faster.
Managing the treasury: view the treasury reserve in the event of a budgetary surplus and pay off the national debt. This reserve is available for lending and is repaid by a rate of interest.
The option to play as a gay or lesbian head of state.
The option to change the name and flag of your own country whatever it may be
The option to play over 100 years
Various improvements : adjustment of historical part during election calculation, AI decision adjustments for starting a war depending of the context
New Achievements
New comparative maps: cyberattack sources, internet coverage and average speed in super high speed, 4G and broadband.
Additions to the God’n’spy add-on: force the victory of a candidate in elections, the option of creating catastrophic cyberattacks on the map, display the file of a terrorist organization with the option of altering their stats, acceleration of space programs, addition of sexual identity to character sheets
Additions to the Modding Tool add-on: the option to create and play any illegal organization in the world
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