Revisiting Shattered Union, PopTop Software’s Strange Final Game
A turn-based strategy that makes the Second American Civil War semi-fun again
The last game developed by PopTop Software, before the game studio was merged with Firaxis, best known for their work on Railroad Tycoon and the Tropico series, and published by Take-Two Interactive, which these days goes by the moniker of 2K, Shattered Union was not exactly a swan song a respected developer would wish for.
The backstory of Shattered Union must have been envisioned by partially clairvoyant people who were channeling some of real-life American and European history from 2016-2025. In 2008, Donald Tr…whoops, I mean David Jefferson Adams, became the US President after a disputed election while losing both the popular vote and the Electoral College, only to be placed in power by his party loyalists in Congress. He immediately enacts a domestic policy of incompetent, divisive lawlessness that triggers a rise in civil unrest and domestic...
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