The game is an example of a genre I call the anti-advergame, a game created to censure or disparage a company rather than support it.74
The player controls four separate aspects of the McDonald's production environment, each of which he has to manage simultaneously: the third-world pasture where cattle are raised as cheaply as possible; the slaughterhouse where cattle are fattened for slaughter; the restaurant where burgers are sold; and the corporate offices where lobbying, public...
In each sector, the player must make difficult business choices, but more importantly he must make difficult moral choices.
The language used to advertise the Serious Games Summit confirms this sentiment; under a header reading "Gaming for your Industry" follows a list of institutional interests: education, government, health, military, corporate, first responders, science.142
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