As of right this moment, there are seven days left within the marketing campaign for the U.S. Presidential election. Now, the Democratic ticket headlined by Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz is courting the gamer vote by launching their very own map on Fortnite.
Fortnite gamers can entry the Harris/Walz map by coming into a code, 733155366547. The identify of the map is Freedom City, USA, and it might be probably the most pointed political use of Fortnite because it launched in 2015. Harris’ crew additionally posted a fast trailer for Freedom City, together with a have a look at some fighters in patriotic gear.
Freedom City has been deliberate out to incorporate Harris’ marketing campaign guarantees geared in the direction of small companies and first-time dwelling homeowners, in addition to a pledge to deal with inexpensive housing. Moreover, Fortnite content material creators together with Jordan “Huskerss” Thomas, MODELMORG, Himalyahs, and Khairi “Kdot” Harris can have devoted streams set in Freedom City.
Whereas Harris might not play many video games herself, Walz has acknowledged that he was a giant Sega Dreamcast fan simply over twenty years in the past, particularly for the sport Loopy Taxi. Earlier this week, Walz performed Loopy Taxi whereas showing on a stream with Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Throughout that look, Walz acknowledged {that a} online game developer made a Loopy Taxi mod that features the governor as a playable character.
To this point, the Republican marketing campaign led by Donald Trump and J.D. Vance hasn’t answered with a Fortnite map of their very own. However with the election only a week away, the marketing campaign will all be over quickly sufficient.