Superpower 2

[VigilVirus]

Have you heard of it? It's a geopolitical world conquest RTS. Personally I find it amazing especially after they released the latest patch that fixed almost all of the multitude of bugs there were in original (and there were million...heh). The world map is awesome and detailed and you can be any of the world countries with all the data coinciding with 2001 CIA fact book (military, political, cultural, economical, etc). You start in 2001 as well and can control all aspects of a country. You can change laws, government systems, improve your economy (taxes, tariffs, resources production, corruption, etc), balance the budget, declare war, form alliances, etc. All of this is especially fun when you do it online with 9 or more other countries.

And it costs only about $20 considering it's a new game - quite a deal.

Search for it online and you'll find it.

[veK]

looks quite interesting...

btw here's a good link from the creator's page:

http://www.golemlabs.com/superpower2/

[VigilVirus]

It's the funniest thing to play online and unite with another player in a total invasion of the world. I was playing as Russia and have already annexed around 40 countries, invading dozens at once.

[DukeLeto]

Hmmm, I play an MMO like that called Reign.  It's not as political, it's basically all military, but hey...it's completely free.

[Barbarossa]

I used to be addicted to SP1 although I eventually got tired of it's pointlessness. I heard that the sequal is really no different.