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This game makes the swine fly look extremely dangerous... The swine flu is NOT much more dangerous than normal season flu
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This game is definitely an improvement from I and II, its alot more different, updated, and definitely gives everybody a different strategy on how to approach this game, I didn't like II unfortunately because of the randomness factor (You could never win if you started with a certain country, or if a country closed its port) but theres alot of different options in this game :) 5/5
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coldfusion, and what if authors despise the us for a rational reason? :) game is boring btw, killing people always more fun then saving them
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im not sure if i could call this a win, but i had 70% immune, but 60M dead lol. some states only had populations of less than 50k out of 8M.
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there was actually a swine flu epidemy in my sister's class. luckily my sister was sick of normal flu that day, so we didnt get it :)
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Are you supposed to get enough money to kill the people with swine flu ever? I never got enough. I would assume it would be possible to win before the vaccine comes out.
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I thought it was going to be great when I read the name... then I figured out you save people. 1/5. I'm epically disappointed.
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I've never really enjoyed the Pandemic series. The games look nice, have a proper atmosphere, and are based on a good concept, but gameplay kills it every time. It's just a number generator. Also, the player lacks direct control over anything. It's sort of like passive-active voice in writing. It makes the player feel powerless and greatly reduces the immersion factor of a game. Indirect control also takes a lot of the strategy out of the game. Imagine a game like Starcraft, except you can only tell your units to be aggressive or passive. Similarly, in this game, there's no reason to use half of the operations. I played on hard and easily completed the game without ever feeling panicked. I just sat back and passed out masks left and right. Not once did I have to quarantine a city, block off a road, or shut down an airport.
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should be a next day button. I spent most of the game waiting for the next day to trigger, so i could have more money to spend on things. Nice idea but poorly executed.
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The semi-racist titles and themes are getting rather old. I wonder, if you choose that title because you're one of the many fools who despise the U.S. for irrational reasons? Maybe you just didn't think it through enough. Consider what you put into your game before you seem like a complete ass.
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ooooooo a new pandemic :)
funnily enough two days after i played the last one, swine flu broke out in mexico, the same place i started :S
perhaps im death? just throwin open debate lol
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Slow and easy. Feels a bit unpolished, especially with all the errors in the text. Other than that though, pretty solid. 3/5
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Worked very well, just wasn't much fun. I waited around for a while and just sat around for half of it. I didn't feel like I was really doing much.