Abraham Lincoln: The Video Game

I'll admit 'Lincoln' would never be an EA title, it's far too deep and doesn't have enough codpieces in it, but for companies like Strategy First and other specialised groups, I don't see any reason why a game playing as President in Lincolns' era would need to be glitzy or glamourized, and would probably be very educational.

Heck, I'd buy a Lincoln game.  It would be a lot of fun to see what problems Lincoln faced.  Games have always been a great medium to make history approachable to folks who usually have no interest in the drier forms of historical scholarship.  Look at historical games such as Silent Hunter III and IV which give a lot of insight into WW2 submarine warfare, or even more lighthearted games such as the recent The Political Machine.

To suggest that games are an incompatible format for serious study says a lot of bad things about the person making that argument.  It also says bad things about the state of gaming when some idiot can make that argument without seeming completely out of touch with the medium.

The game would have a terrible ending. Unless they changed it so that Lincoln comes back to life for a final showdown with Booth.

---You are likely to be eaten by a Grue.