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French video game lets you play as far-left presidential candidate

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France’s far-left presidential candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon’s supporters have released a campaign ad-video game, Fiscal Combat, which allows the gamer to roam the streets and shake down France’s excessively wealthy elite to build a more egalitarian system for the country.
The game is a pun on the popular video game Mortal Combat.

The player’s challenge is to get as much money as possible while avoiding the attempts of the rich to kill him.
Among the opponents that Melenchon must take on are former president Nicolas Sarkozy; the head of the IMF, Christine Lagarde; Jerome Cahuzac; and the L’Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt, BBC reported.
The game was developed by a group of students and volunteers, as the “video game of the French rebellion.”
“The idea is to allow French voters to incarnate our candidate, re-organize the distribution of wealth by recovering money from those who have confiscated it,” Melenchon campaign director Manuel Bompard was quoted by Le Figaro as saying.
“The hero of the game, it’s me. I and the people playing my character fighting the oligarchs,” Melenchon said in a Youtube video.
The first round of of French Presidential voting will be on the April 23 with the final round on the May 7.
According to some polls, Melenchon is coming in third, just after centre candidate Emmanuel Macron and far-right candidate Marine Le Pen.

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