'But if you're not familiar with politics, if you're not familiar video games, the game will very much hold your hand.'
'Now, if you want to dive in and be a sort of Machiavellian operator and be a Nancy Pelosi or Mitch McConnell, you absolutely can,' he said. But he stressed that players don't need to be top-tier gamers - or political junkies - to dive right in. How the game unfolds from there, Nelson said, is up to the player - and of course, the voters that make up the game's simulated political world. Politics Why Republicans did well in the Virginia and New Jersey elections
