Gameplay: It's very very buggy to say the least. It mainly consists in clicking around and hoping you will get some error screen or you wont be some African 6yo without parents stuck in the budget screen because you cannot make any money to survive and the cancel button is doing nothing. Basically, the game play consists in clicking around and yelling at the game when it changes something on your budget when you didn't want to. It always expects everyone to do charity. Also, maybe because it wants to be educational, being good to people enhances your wisdom in many cases. Some values it present are also utterly non-sense, specially int he budget screen, they based on collected data but I guess they forgot people really are random or liars when it comes to these researches. Not only that, but the majority of the world doesn't really pay all the taxes they should (hah, as if anyone should) and they do not declare they earnings and expenses correctly exactly because of that. So as much as they want to be realistic, it's extremely fictional and frustrating.
But I guess that if you happen to be some correct and wealthy American (wealthy anything, really), you can have a small glimpse of how life is sucky for everyone else.

Graphics: Where? The world map, both day and night can be downloaded freely at nasa's picture site.

Replay Value: Maybe it was fast reading on my side, but the site states the only difference between registered and non-registered games is the ability to zoom in the map. Well, it was a lie. non-registered people can only play 3 lives nor create custom people. In any case, 3 lives where quite enough since a lot of the game are just windows poping up non-stop.

Fun Factor: Okay, I guess it was interesting to watch all my character's family die from malaria in Kenya. It was interesting to migrate illegally to another country and become extremely wealthy mainly because of how buggy this game is (Float point errors popped like mad when I migrated) and it was interesting to be born wealthy in Pakistan just to emigrate to Canada to die a poor old lady.

Final Notes: I reviewed this game because I was interested in the subject and wasn't very surprised to see how poorly it was done. By all means give it a try, like I said, playing those 3 lives can be slightly interesting but other than that, it's really not worth it unless you also have some utopic monetary view of the world.

Learning Curve: Instant!

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