Video games are capable of being political in an interesting manner. Games such as Beyond Good and Evil, Bioshock, and the Metal Gear Solid series make quite valiant attempts at discussing, at the least, some minor political theory or ideologies.
The problem is that most games that attempt doing so can’t even be called valiant attempts. It would be interesting to see a game that truly tackled the issue of politics in a deep manner. Maybe the Civilization series…sort of?
While The History Channel has tried, Civil War video games have just never really caught on. Some argue because they’re too boring, but my secret suspicion is that game designers don’t know enough about the war to actually attempt a game. Ask the average person off the street and they can rattle off some details on World War II. In contrast, most couldn’t even tell you which states were on which side of the Civil War, except maybe to say northern states versus southern states.
This perhaps explains why one of the few Civil War games was released for the original NES and was simply titled North vs. South.
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