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McDonald's Video Game depicts how it's corporation is really run.  As you employ tactics to run the crops, cattle, restaurant, and corporate headquarters you will learn how to how to maximize profit - even if it means compromising our nation's health with genetically modified plants, feeding cattle poisonous shit and hormones, and using sophisticated advertising schemes to sway consumers into the fast food lifestyle. 

Enjoy this review of the very eerie game.   
The game is set up so that you cannot win without compromising...

...To really succeed, you have to employ what some might call "unnatural" means, though at Corporate, they call it "McFriendly growth measures."

The game is drawn with a crazy flair, the blood splattered happy meal at the title screen should be some indication. There are subtle touches, like the joint perpetually hung out the mouth of a marketer, or the fact that some of your customers are men with beards wearing skirts -- a byproduct of the randomly combinatorial nature of the character generation system. Watching the constant flow of people getting their trays, then walking off, is sickly hypnotic; it's the core pulse of the game's system, where the commodities turn into cash and complete the play loop, and its also an abstraction of something that is going on all over the world, many times a second.
Be sure to play a few times because once you get the hang of it you will see the sick crazy environment we've grown to accept as a food source.  Keep on your toes, at one point I noticed a cashier puking up green vomit on a customer's food...friggin' hilarious.

 

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