Welcome to Simbabwe, where the property is already owned and the houses built and you compete to burn and dispossess them. Bounce around the map plundering farms, denying grain silos to opposition supporters and robbing the community chest.
Easy to play but hard to escape from, Simbabwe is a richly detailed, evolved board game with unscrupulous AI and editorial cartoon graphics.
Rig elections, gaol opponents and taunt the Commonwealth as you use intimidation and stooges to create a mugaboly on power.
Compete with Robert Mugabe, Canaan Banana, Cecil Rhodes and Sir Godfrey Huggins to earn a place on the all-time EU travel ban list!
Features
- Challenging AI
- Sophisticated inflation model: watch prices go up and savings erode every time you print money.
- International reputation model: your actions determine whether you get aid, a travel ban or a slam dunk in the slammer on setting foot outside Zimbabwe.
- Splenetic graphics
- Vibrant sound effects
- Over 60 dynamically triggered events, including adopting Marxism in 1988, the Land Reallocation Act 1992 and Operation Drive Out Rubbish
- Detailed in-game help
- Plumes of smoke
The critics rave
CIA developers turn their HATE message into a game. IRI funded projects are now attempting to transmogrify their endless destabilization campaigns into "satire." Trey Parker would love this one! Every successful popular liberation struggle has seen an endless, big money, siege of grinding destabilization under the NED guise of "promoting democracy." This "game" is the serious business of the transnational elite. The US has revealed its own moral compass in New Orleans....A racist game like this should never be on VersionTracker, write the Editors and have this one yanked!
- Earnest citizen on Versiontracker.com
The Daily Grind responds: "Looks like those guys at Pacific Command are jealous that our game is better than their Kimdom Come. Central Command is where it's at, pal. Iraq, Syria, Haiti, Bay of Pigs: all happening. What has PacCom ever done? Got that P-3C stuck in Hainan. See you at the cafeteria boys."
Isn't this is in extraordinary bad taste? Mugabe's murderous regime isn't a particularly amusing subject for a game.
- Some guy on Macupdate.com
Can I suggest boSIMnia next? Or perhaps SIMdi Arabia? Or hell, naSIM germany! Just because you can, doesn't mean you should, or you fall into the same filthy pit that Billy "get on with it" Connolly went to.
- Some other guy on Macupdate.com
The really sad part is that someone would waste time making something like this when life is so short. Must be a young guy. One day your 21 and when you blink your eyes your 50.
- Some guy on versiontracker.com
This game is negative and perpetuates the centuries old belief that Africans arenot capable of self governance. I think the developers should creat a game that demostarate the systematic suppression of the native people of Australia and their culture through racist policies. Shame on you.
- A very cross poster on watercoolergames.org
Amazingly offensive game... Because nothings funnier than contemporary political disasters and ethnic cleansing.
- mrvandyke, who blogs "whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle"
Simbabwe is mushee steric!
- Toskimills on macupdate.com
And I wonder if you can change Mugabes clothes?
- joblog.co.za
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Mac OS X 10.3 or better
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| Tech Notes |
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3 April, 2008
New in version 1.8:
Plumes of noxious smoke billow from torched other people's property
Bug fixes and tweaks |
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24 February, 2008
New in version 1.7:
Now a Universal Binary, allowing 60% faster dispossession on Intel macs
Interface tweaks and improvements
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8 January, 2006
New in version 1.6:
Stats floater providing a quick reference for player and national statistics |
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13 December, 2005
Fixes in version 1.5.1:
Graph animations now work at small window sizes
Sound changes to improve looping
Clearer y-axis labels at small window sizes
More distinct zero line |
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11 December, 2005
New in version 1.5:
A floating optionally-translucent Graphs palette
Animated graphs
More interface preference options
6 more game events
Expanded Help |
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3 December, 2005
New in version 1.4:
Graph window to track political capital, assets destroyed, inflation, refugees, plumes of smoke and the approval of Thabo Mbeki, allowing you to better analyze your regime's success
New kind of electoral fraud added |
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3 November, 2005
New in version 1.3:
Preferences panel to configure:
- independent sound and event notification settings for human and computer players
- personalised map and event log aesthetics |
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8 October, 2005
New in version 1.2:
When configuring a new game, you can now set starting:
- Political capital
- Occupied sectors
-Rate of return on stolen property
Fixed the bug that sometimes caused crashes during auctions in 12 player games |
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7 September, 2005
New in version 1.1:
• Situational awareness enhanced by magnifying player tokens when the map is zoomed out
• Improved stability
• Several cosmetic tweaks
• Version number incremented by 0.1 |
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