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The 7 worst US Presidents in video gamesOne Off The List
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George Sears -Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance
Otherwise known as Solidus Snake, this President has the honour of quitting political office for a lucrative career in insurgency. Just as financial regulators bemoan the existence of a “revolving door” between executive-level banking positions and roles within the US administration, the peacekeeping organisations of theMetal Gearuniverse must be frustrated at the high speed of its own revolving door between international relations and global terrorism. That you can be President one year, and the next year find yourself a frightening old man threatening the world with untold destabilisation, is an observation people in 2001 must have thought outlandish.
Andrew Ellis -Tom Clancy’s The Division 2
Spoilers for anyone who has a) not completed The Division 2, or b) not come to terms with the nature of all those who seek the power of a habitually disgraced political office. President Ellis is a fastidious man. You rescue him from the clutches of a post-apocalyptic military organisation so that you may install him at the head of your own, different post-apocalyptic military organisation. Hegives anti-viral medicineto a shady group of gun-toters who you do not approve of, betraying your trust, your beliefs, your faith in democracy. How could a decent family man who ordered the assassination of his predecessor become so corrupt? It must be the stress of the post-pandemic world. There is no other explanation.
George Washington -Assassin’s Creed III
In the same way that this year is an elaborate simulation designed to stress-test humanity and cannot be real, the events that take place in Assassin’s Creed III’s bonus story ‘The Tyranny of King Washington’ are also a dream. They tell of a kooky alternate universe, where George Washington is not the hero of history and liberator of America, but a head of state whosees the world in terms of masters and slavesand seeks to destroy the indigenous people of America. What aninterestingpremise.
Michael Wilson -Metal Wolf Chaos XD
President Michael Wilson is as much the beneficiary of dynasty as he is a man capable of piloting a fully-functioning armoured battlesuit. He is a descendant of Woodrow Wilson and a politician who is unafraid to get the job done, so long as that job includes launching a barrage of missiles from the arm-maw of an over-sized mech. A vote for Michael Wilson is a vote against his own Vice President, Richard Hawk, who has instigated a coup against his commander-in-chief, plunging the country into another one of these constitutional crises that have become so fashionable recently. More than a game,Metal Wolf Chaosis an allegorical distillation of the Michael-Richard dichotomy that has plagued Western civilisation for centuries. When will we be free of Mikes and Dicks?
John Henry Eden -Fallout 3
Steven Armstrong -Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
This man is actually just a senator. He shouts about how he willmake America great again. He is horrible and will probably be elected in four years time.
Abraham Lincoln - Fight Club
One Off The List from… the best spaceships
Last time we kicked the landing gears and flipped buttons in the cockpits ofthe 9 best spaceships in PC games. But you have relegated one of them to the scrapyard. It’s…the Banshee from Halo.
Many votes were cast for the alien craft to be destroyed. And as commenter and spacecraft appreciator “Zorgulon” pointed out, that would not take much.
