I was going to make note of this. The terraforming simulations of trying to make Mars and Venus livable are also interesting from this perspective. Mars is actually achievable by creating the greenhouse effect with CO2 generators, but I could never get anywhere with Venus.
I'm still baffled this hasn't been re-issued in a modern form or at least copied by someone else or inspiring another game.
Would love to make my trichordates sentient again!
There are quite a few great older games that don't have modern counterparts. Several of the Sim series of games are among them. I haven't seen a good replacement for Shadow President yet—there was one similar game called Superpower in the early 2000s that was better in some ways, but a lot worse in others, and even that's practically ancient these days. Hunter Hunted. Return Fire. Dominus.
Of course (see above comments about modern project bloat) the art team for a modern version would probably exceed the count of everyone involved in the original, there'd probably be 3-5x as many developers even if the gameplay and physics and such weren't more complicated, and so on. The credits roll would take up more disk space than the original game did.
Wasn't me that downvoted, but I'm almost positive it was sentient and not sapient as used in the game. And then I went and skimmed through a playthrough and sure enough, it's sapient, lol!
I'm still baffled this hasn't been re-issued in a modern form or at least copied by someone else or inspiring another game.
Would love to make my trichordates sentient again!