#6: Go Corporate with the McDonald's Game

The title of this game may deceive you as propaganda put out by McDonald's to make you hunger for a Big Mac, shake, or fries. However, created by Italian company Molleindustria, the McDonald's game is part of what the company calls "Gamevolution," a means of making social statements using video games: "We can free videogames from the "dictatorship of entertainment", using them instead to describe pressing social needs, and to express our feelings or ideas just as we do in other forms of art."

In the McDonald's Game, you will have to make decisions in the corporate boardroom (dealing with greed and profit), manage restaurant employees (ensuring that they are polite to customers and don't spit in the food!), feed and breed cattle, and cultivate crops (via deforestation), all while trying to grow, grow, grow the business! While the game is fun and challenging, it's hard not to pay attention to the underlying social commentary within each aspect of the game.