Political game?

Balfa

Can anyone recommend a good political game?

I've played Balance of Power and Shadow President, but they're a little old and naff.

I've played PC games based on boardgames like risk, diplomacy and settlers of cataan, but they're just not as good as playing around a board against real people.

There's nation states which is far too simplistic and not really a game.

And there are Tropico and Republic, but they seem too shallow and sensationalist...

Does anyone know a really good in depth political game?

Branoic

Europa Universalis 2?

madrab

civ 4 is fantastic & has political elements

steviec

The Political Machine?

It's a game based on the US election, you choose a party and candidate(from a list of real life politicians) and go around campaigning, it's more of a satirical game than one with any real depth, but it's entertaining for a while and very authentic in some ways.

I can't really think of anything else I could describe as a 'Political Game' unless you count things like Civilization.

Pretor

I think Hearts of Iron 2 would be a good bet, probably the most political game ive played so far...

neGev

Republic: The Revolution ?

I've never played it, just throwing it out there...

Dagnir Glaurung

Democracy?

Hydrosylator

Deus Ex 2: Invisible War. It's got loud noises, big robots, explosions, sneaky bits, taking over big robots, human-sized cyborgs, and the story is fairly political and philisophical. Oh and you get to shoot things.

Any Civ game will be great though. As far as politics goes, it's just too full of **** to work in a game, if you ask me.

flogen

I'd love to see a good RTS that mixes diplomacy well, Games like AOE were always enjoyable, but it annoyed me how bad the AI is in regards to setting up alliances and debating conflicts etc.
Civ 3 was pretty good at it, but I never got that far into it to play it properly.
Medieval: Total War was pretty good for that kind of thing, though.