Product Description

What would you do if you were the president? Commander In Chief is an economic and geopolitical simulator where every country in the world is represented with its own unique data of over 400 key values (geographic, climatic, demographic, budgetary, environmental, etc). Select the country of your choice and take on the role of the government's leader. You have a number of actions at your disposal. First, you have to select a cabinet to oversee individual government services. In addition to specific decisions (changing tax rates, firing a minister, etc), you can also negotiate with labor groups, sign business or military contracts with partner countries, and participate in decision-making at international organizations. You may intervene in all the following fields: the economy, social issues, the military, the Home Office and the Foreign Office, ecology, culture, etc. The game offers single player mode and a multiplayer "Wargame" mode.

You may intervene in all the following fields - the economy, social issues, the military, the Home Office and the Foreign Office, ecology, culture, etc Single player mode and a multiplayer Wargame mode

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #12954 in Video Games
• Brand: IGS
• Model: 90109
• Released on: 2009-01-20
• ESRB Rating: Mature
• Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP
• Format: CD-ROM
• Dimensions: .35 pounds

Features

• An economic and geopolitical simulator
• Every country in the world is represented with its own unique data of over 400 key values (geographic, climatic, demographic, budgetary, environmental, etc.)
• Select the country of your choice and take on the role of the government's leader
• You have to select a cabinet to oversee individual government services
• In addition to specific decisions (changing tax rates, firing a minister, etc.), you can also negotiate with labor groups, sign business or military contracts with partner countries, and participate in decision-making at international organizations

Customer Reviews

Disappointed
I wouldn't go so far as to give it one star, but I was so incredibly disappointed with this game.

It's a great and fascinating concept of a game, and I'm sure it will entice people to get it because they figure it will be chock full of depth and immersion, but sadly, Eversim would have been better off keeping this game in production and not releasing a half-done product to match Inauguration Day.

The names in the back of the manual are all French, and there are tons of grammar and spelling errors that plague the game, probably resulting from poor and unchecked translation, with many words unchanged from the original French (ex: "Irak"). Much of the text is bizarre to read aloud, and some is downright incomprehensible.

As mentioned by other reviews, withdrawing troops from a country and repatriating them is completely broken, with the only other option for doing this is manually telling all troops to move back home, a process that takes ages (in my case, moving troops out of Iraq and back to Australia).

The game stalls a few months in, the tutorial is poor and clunky, the manual isn't very helpful, and you're left to flail around helplessly in a sea of crushing depth and information as your popularity plummets.

Going back to the military, it's also very difficult to assist allies and since repatriating soldiers from abroad is broken, quickly sending aid to friendly nations is too, and the same excruciatingly long and drawn out troop movements bring the game down.

I've encountered lag and slowdown, even as the game was four months underway, and alt-tabbing is simply out of the question.

It's incredibly disappointing because the idea for such a game is incredible, and the potential is definitely there to create something astonishingly good, but sadly even though it's a great concept, the delivery was sorely lacking, with strange grammar, a skin-and-bones tutorial and unhelpful manual in which neither appropriately prepares you for the game.

Better either to wait for a more established company with a history of grand-scale works, such as Paradox to attempt something like it (probably unlikely), or hope that updates for the game correct an unbelievable plethora of follies.

It gets one star out of five for being disappointingly garbage, and another for having a stellar idea in a game, which most people will agree with.

Great concept, poor execution
This game has the potential to be phenomenal, but the delivery falls far short of the promise. First off, the game barely works on a brand new state-of-the-art computer. The load times are RIDICULOUS and the game is very slow and choppy and freezes constantly. Second, it is apparent that the publisher was more concerned with the release date coinciding with the inauguration than with producing a quality product. There are countless errors in spelling and punctuation throughout (Irak? Respponsible?). Third, the game is hardly as customizable as it seems. I couldn't get very far into the game without the lag making it unbearable, so I'm sure there are other things that I'm leaving out. I desperately wanted this game to live up to its potential, but it did not. In these uncertain economic times, I highly recommend saving your money for something more entertaining - like a pet rock collection.

Constantly Improving
I was a beta tester for this game last spring when it was first being released in English.

I have to tell you that the title has vastly improved since that time and gives every indication that it will continue to evolve. I am impressed by the development team's dedication to the title and its continual efforts to update and upgrade the product.

The language issues have drastically improved; most of the text is now more or less professionally translated.

I recently replayed the game in its more or less current state and I honestly had fun running my government.

What the title needs, I think, is some guidance to the players on what the expected outcomes of certain actions might be. Right now, if I had any criticism, it would be that actions seem to have random effects, which will always be disturbing to strategy players.

I think the title is definitely worth picking up, if only for the knowledge that the developers will continue to evolve the product and that it will continue to improve.