McDonald's Video Game
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== Overview and gameplay == |
== Overview and gameplay == |
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''McDonald's Video Game'' is a satirical [[parody]] of the business practices of the corporate quick-service restaurant giant [[McDonald's]], taking the guise of a tycoon-style business-simulation game. The game presents the player with four views: the farmland, the slaughterhouse, the restaurant and the corporate HQ. Through each of these views, decisions can be made which will affect the fate of the player's company. In the game, the player takes on the role of a McDonald's CEO by choosing whether or not to feed the player's cows genetically altered grain,{{cite news |last=Gerson |first=Jeff |date=November 15, 2006 |title=Bully beats back game critics |url=https://www.thestar.com/Special/article/119120 |url-status=unfit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929211122/https://www.thestar.com/Special/article/119120 |archive-date=September 29, 2007 |access-date=April 20, 2007 |work=[[Toronto Star]]}} plow over rainforests or feed the |
''McDonald's Video Game'' is a satirical [[parody]] of the business practices of the corporate quick-service restaurant giant [[McDonald's]], taking the guise of a tycoon-style business-simulation game. The game presents the player with four views: the farmland, the slaughterhouse, the restaurant and the corporate HQ. Through each of these views, decisions can be made which will affect the fate of the player's company. In the game, the player takes on the role of a McDonald's CEO by choosing whether or not to feed the player's cows genetically altered grain,{{cite news |last=Gerson |first=Jeff |date=November 15, 2006 |title=Bully beats back game critics |url=https://www.thestar.com/Special/article/119120 |url-status=unfit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929211122/https://www.thestar.com/Special/article/119120 |archive-date=September 29, 2007 |access-date=April 20, 2007 |work=[[Toronto Star]]}} plow over rainforests or feed the player's cattle to other cattle (a practice known to spread [[mad cow disease]]). The player can also choose advertising strategies and public official corruption to counteract opponents of the player's actions. |
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Choices within the game include demolishing villages and bribing public officials. McDonald's issued a statement saying that the game "has no association with McDonald's and is therefore a complete misrepresentation of our people and our values."{{cite news |last=Bluestien |first=Greg |date=January 21, 2007 |title=Creators Put Politics Into Video Games |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/20/AR2007012000729_2.html |access-date=April 20, 2007 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |agency=[[Associated Press]] |archive-date=April 5, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160405163714/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/20/AR2007012000729_2.html |url-status=live }} |
Choices within the game include demolishing villages and bribing public officials. McDonald's issued a statement saying that the game "has no association with McDonald's and is therefore a complete misrepresentation of our people and our values."{{cite news |last=Bluestien |first=Greg |date=January 21, 2007 |title=Creators Put Politics Into Video Games |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/20/AR2007012000729_2.html |access-date=April 20, 2007 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |agency=[[Associated Press]] |archive-date=April 5, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160405163714/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/20/AR2007012000729_2.html |url-status=live }} |
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