And now for something completely different!

Taking a cue from the designers of the Football manager game by Sports Interactive, which keeps the football buffs glued to the monitors, the company Politics Interactive has decided to go ahead with its plans for the Nation Manger game. " NM is primarily for people who want to gain a real time experience of running a country, or political aspirants. This game is aimed to target audience from 25 onwards(age). " says the manager of Politics Interactive Mr. Barracks Bushama.

Including the political scenarios of over 50 countries from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe to Iraq to India, this game is destined to be a very big hit. The company is devising a foolproof marketing strategy for India especially. " In a politics-crazy environment as in India, this game will be a very big hit if marketed properly. For the convenience of the Indians we have designed this game in 10 different languages of which 4 of them are Indian. For India we are developing the game in Tamil, Telugu, Hindi and Bengali. We also have Malayalam, Kannada and Bhojpuri versions in the pipeline." says PI's India spokesperson like-you-care-abt-the-name.

The Beta version of the game is out and the following is the game review by our very own game-tester-guy:

" To start with the game can run on any computer. No specific requirements. The installation process is very simple and dint take me more than a few seconds in my computer(a 3.2 Ghz, Intel Pentium 4). The game's Interface is excellent making it very easy to use and for a
person with decent gaming aptitude, getting into grips with this game is only a matter of time. The game play is very tough and very close to reality . The Beta version had only three countries to choose from India, Pakistan and U.S. I being the Indian, i am ,chose India and in India you can choose what states or union territories you want to include. I included T.N, Kerala and Karnataka for a start.You can state the game as one of the following

1) Senior Politician
2) Seasoned Politician
3) Head of some caste or religious group
4) A cine actor
5) Son or daughter of some party loyalist
6)A lower cadre follower
7) A don
and then have to chose a party or play as an independent candidate.

I gave Seasoned politician and i chose D.M.K to start my game so that i can be on the ruling side.

The game is very close to reality because, as soon as i took charge of D.M.K, the news read game tester takes charge as D.M.K chief. Immediately the party broke into three parts one headed by Stalin , one headed by Azhagiri and the other under Arcot N.Veerasami. As a result i lost power and had to contest the elections. That's how tough the game is.

The game has tips blooming from nowhere . Some of them are tips that real politicians follow like

1) If you are an independent and have just started with a new party going against a well known actor on political grounds will enhance your reputation.But beware this may also diminish ur chances if over used.

2) If you have an alliance with the communist party , the commies will marshal a lot of uprisings against your policies that involve even the smallest hint of privatization. Giving scant or no regard to those will always have a positive effect on your party.As the commies just threaten and they wont withdraw support easily.

3) Handling the press is one of the most important things in the game. You should be able to give ambiguous answers to straight forward questions this will help you a lot when you jump alliances.

as for the rest, play and learn from the game yourself.

cheers,
we-just-lied-a-lot corporation.

Literary Football

And today's special, we bring you the live text commentary of the football match between, words-that-come-in-proverbs Utd vs words-that-come-in-proverb town. It is a proverb derby, the atmosphere here is so exciting , you can cut it with a blunt bread knife...


TEAM NEWS:
We can see the Utd players in the tunnel. Headed by captain Godliness. Cleanliness is next to godliness, followed by their youngest player today Invention. We can see the women clad in Red in the stands, she is Mrs.Necessity. Necessity is the mother of Invention. Then there are Howard Nine,James( nick named "The Wind"), Roger Earlybird and Winston Actions in midfield. Gary Words and Jonathan Fortune playing forwards. Vince Brave ,Pierce Cure play center backs and Invention and Godliness as full backs while Cleanliness is on goal.


Early possession for Utd as towns defense are being asked questions. .Towns goalkeeper Jimmy Stitch has been their saviour for so long, can he be the same today.

Necessity is dribbling along the flank, with Actions,Words and Nine in the box. Actions and Words are both calling for the ball, Actions speaks louder than words and gets the ball and passes onto NIne, who manges to get a powerful shot away. Goal!!..is it??...no!!!!. Stitch, in time, saves nine. Excellent Goalkeeping.


Actions splits the defense into two with an excellent pass to Fortune. Fortune's first touch is poor, so he s made drift along the flank. Fortune favours the brave with an excellent cross, trying to make amends for his poor first touch. Goal!!......1-0 !....Utd are in front. Brave scored with an excellent header.

Town are going on an all out attack immediately after the restart, their striker Albert Worm creating all sorts of problems to the Utd defense. Worm cuts in giving a clean set of heels to Godliness and Earlybird is tracking back. Penalty!.Early Bird catches the Worm. Its a penalty for Town. Wind is arguing with the referee. But the referee is having nothing of it. Oh! he is calling wind , he s gonna get booked. The referee throws caution to the wind.

Time is running out. Cure has been invisible throughout the match and the coach asks Prevention to warm up.He is obviously of the opinion that Prevention is better than Cure.

Town s fans nicknamed "the childs" are jeering at Ron Rod of town as he has had a stinker of a game. The manager makes a refreshing change bringing Rod off. Spare the rod, and spoil the child says the commentator.

The lst few minutes end without any interesting moves. And the final core here is 1-1.

Laters,

A-man-who-adds-"The" -in -front-of-nouns-according--to-his-comfort.