So, for the first few hours of Superpower 3, I mostly clicked around the clunky UI, trying my hardest to figure out what everything meant. A little book icon in the top right corner currently only leads to an empty Fandom page that I’m assuming will explain how to play the game when the community gets its hands on it. It’s kind of baffling how the game just tosses you to the wolves with literally no tutorial campaign or any sort of guidance at all. There are no onboarding elements to Superpower 3. Either way, it’s time to jump into the game and see its first significant problem there is no tutorial. So, basically, there is baked-in racism in the game, which certainly is realistic in terms of real-world problems but can definitely kill the self-insert fantasy at times if you’re not the preferred race of the country you choose to play as. This is a rather strange part of the game because Superpower 3 tells you early on that the race players choose and even how they dress will affect how the population perceives you and you’re electability. Once players decide what scenario and country they would like to play, they can create their own custom character that acts as the head of that country. Each scenario always allows players to choose which country they would like to take the role of with specific objectives leading to a successful campaign or failure conditions. North Korea to a hypothetical World War 3 situation or even a more specific problem like the Burmese dictatorship scenario. These can range from general topics like the USA vs. The game opens with players choosing one of sixteen scenarios grounded in real-life issues and geopolitical situations. It’s a simulation with some strategy elements tossed in. Superpower 3 is challenging to pin down because it’s not much of a game at all. Except it’s less of a game and more of a glorified Excel spreadsheet with little that makes me want to return to it regularly. Well, that’s what Superpower 3 is here to let you do: choose a country, take command, and maybe even take over the world. I’m sure almost anyone, regardless of political viewpoint, could turn on the TV, flip to a news channel and say, “you know what, I think I could do a better job than whoever is in charge right now.” It’s almost fitting that the Superpower franchise would return at a time when the real world is in a state of conflict and instability.
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