Confusing and steep, but undeniably compelling and interesting. In fate of the world you are elected world leader to tackle a fuel and environmental crisis at the same time. The game is not afraid to throw you into the deeps, providing a tutorial that is too small and tons of information that you may or may not need directly. Information is not well presented: it's too much and too fine, there is no good top down information-stream. Since the gameplay is turn-based and graph reading is involved a lot, the pace is slow. This gets a bit tedious because all areas you control don't feel unique, and you tend to find the same scenario in different areas over time, making you hasty and careless in your decision. Different options for different countries would certainly help. Actually, the gameplay is remarkably linear for a game which gives so much choice. It's more about juggling between economy and environmental issues. You only have one sane choice direction to go (Renewal energy), its just how you manage it while keeping the folks happy. The game would benefit if the options feel more distinctive. A suggestion would be to, for example, enable South America to become a world national park, lowering the Carbon emitted drastically and saving bio-diversity, or to choose to make it the world bio-fuel factory, buffering food supplies and spreading the juice. Generally, the game misses gameplay character. The game mechanics and the action-consequences events are hidden deep. You'll never see a "Will reduce Carbon emitted by 20% over 10 years" or "Produces X barrels of oil in 5 years". This may make the gameplay look random at times, and makes you play a little more aimlessly. However, taking this all together, Fate of the World brings the player in a fresh new situation, educating them on the run. It's vagueness and lack of direct feed back make the game mysterious and unpredictable. It's steep learning curve and difficulty make the player think not only about the game, but also about the future of the world. If you put this all together, it makes Fate of the World memorable and stimulates the player to think. Therefor I see the game as a great educational and philosophical game, that like a really good movie, makes you think about our existence and problems. Only for that brave step alone I think the game is already admirable. That I'm enjoying it regardless of all the pits is an extra.

Pretty good fun, I can't anything to the veracity of moderls used in this game but I can say that. The card play model is engaging you're always making choices (usually wrong ones). Hell any game that allows me to steralise the population of north america is fine by me.

This is an extremely difficult game. Expect to keep a notepad next to your computer as you got down numbers to compute the various results of your policies. It also paints a harrowing picture of our future. Some people might view this picture as leftist propaganda. However, my personal view is that if we, as gamers, can suspend our belief about alien invasions or zombie outbreaks, why not suspend our belief that the world temperature is spiraling out of control? So leave politics out of it and enjoy a great game.

I think the type of players who would enjoy this game are those that like teasing the marginal effects out of different actions and world building games. Oh yeah, you must love charts and graphs as well. One thing I especially like about this game is that as soon as you think you have solved one crisis, another one blows up in your face because your focus was too myopic.

This is a remarkable and educational game, albeit one that is a mite grim in outlook (still fun though). Trying to save the world AND balance human happiness and success is not an easy proposition, and is very easy to fail at.

While simple to play, actually succeeding in this game requires delving deep into population statistics (eg. Building some understanding the (real world) Human Development Index (HDI) of national development) and building some understanding of the likely impact of energy, food, and environmental technologies and planning - many of which exist in the real world. To choose a successful strategy you really need to start thinking in terms of the interaction between all of these factors and how they can be manipulated to achieve a specific outcome (eg. How other countries can help India to both develop and reduce its infant mortality rate, while fulfilling their own requirements and hopefully not screwing up the world past the point of no return at the same time). This really rams home how dealing with climate change is not something lone nations can handle on their own.

All of that said, a certain amount of future-tech predictions (necessarily) do exist in this game (and so increases its speculative aspects), and further, how accurate the modelling of world climate/social alterations is, is difficult to say... Still I recommend this as both an interesting strategy game and as useful speculative insight into the (probable) global warming, energy crises, and related social issues that we will likely face in coming decades.

Note - Just to be really clear this is a game for those who like Civ 4 and other complex and slow paced strategy game; or those who have a deep interest in global warming, energy crises, and related social issues (from either side of the fence!).

This is *the* complete release of the game, with all scenarios, cards and stuff. Definately the best Fate of The World experience there is.

And what is that you can experience? An interesting simulation of steering the world towards total disaster or total paradise. This is much a card-based game, yet the complexity of it plus the real feeling to it provide a satisfactory gameplay. Playing requires thinking, which is always a good thing, mind you :)

Graphics are very good. It feels much polished and nothing detracts me from play. Cards look nice and in style and we have a 3D worldview to boot. Also, graphic style suits the gameplay and theme just perfectly.

The game does what it says it does, and with great quality. Greatly recommended.

This was a game that I was looking to purchase for a while. It had many positive reviews and the premise of a world based strategy to combat "real world" issues seemed interesting.

My excitement to play the game however, lasted only a few minutes after launch. There is no tutorial, there is no "realism" and there is certainly no way this game is ever going to be re-installed on my computer.

The premise of humans being able to somehow control Climate Change whether it be human caused or not is a joke. This game was obviously designed to promote a European mindset of humans suck and the only hope the planet has is to kill millions of them at a time. War, Famine, Strife, Economic Turbulence, etc...all occur in the real world, too bad the game makes these incidents completely absurd and the game play becomes nothing but frustrating.

The animations for news are useless as well as the special attention to show you how horrible the planet looks after global warming at the END of the game! Who cares! Spend less time on graphics and more on substance. It is a GAME, not a guilt trip. If the intention was to alert people to the problems on the planet, we have the nightly news for that. Games are an escape and this game is certain not that.

The use of cards and being able to use and not use certain cards based on available "points" and funds is silly. A game wanting to take on such lofty aspirations of helping humanity should allow the player to use thought, planning and basic analysis. Not only that, but a simple tutorial is essential. I gave my girlfriend an opportunity to play this game and her reaction was the same, if not more forgiving. Funny thing was that she scored more points than I did...and all she did was click randomly on cards until the Initial North/South Africa scenario calendar was finished.

All I know is that I wasted a few $ and a couple hours of my time. No big deal, life is full of mistakes...the key is NOT to repeat them. Hence, I would recommend that you skip this game and save yourself your precious time and money. Save the world another day...and with another game!

No other game makes me feel responsible for the deaths of millions of men and women, not to mention the extinction of a couple of species. THAT is a testimony to the completeness of this simulation. If you think you know how to save the world, this game will prove it.

Fate of the World: Tipping Point is a grand strategy game where you control the global agenda of the earth to lead it to greatness or ruin. The game can be confusing since there is a lot going on but if you stick with it can be a lot of fun. The graphics are pretty good with a nice rotating earth and with colorful playing cards that make up your decisions. There is a lot of scenarios in the game so you will be playing or quite a long time and the game incluses all the DLC's in one bundle so you are getting quite a good deal and since it's on sale right now it's even a better deal but won't last much longer. If you like grand strategy games, you should check this game out.