10 Worst Politicians In Video Games

You’ll hear him on the radio throughout Fallout 3, declaring, in cosy, Roosevelt-style fireside chats, that his Enclave faction will make America great again. Ahem. Oh, and when he’s not pumping out stirring, patriotic marching music, he wants the Brotherhood of Steel dead. In case you didn’t catch that Eden’s a wrong ‘un, though, his in-game Karma level is pretty unambiguous: Evil.

But John Henry Eden has one, big dirty secret – spoiler alert, etc – he’s an advanced AI machine who holds extensive knowledge of past presidents, and uses that as the basis for his charming personality. Voiced by perennial Hollywood villain, Malcolm McDowell, Eden took control of the what’s left of government machinery after that whole nuclear war sitch went south, and the sitting President, Dick Richardson, died. The bitter taste for politics corrupts even machines, it seems. He follows up his coup d’etat with a plan to ruthlessly retake America by killing any citizen who doesn’t agree with him – specifically by poisoning the water supplies, like any self-respecting terrorist.

Like real-world presidents, he has absolutely no objections to declaring war at the drop of a robot hat; unlike real-world presidents, you can prevent war by talking this one into self-destruction if your stats are high enough.