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Summary: Welcome, Presidente!
Review: The game is awesome - I have spent many afternoons of free time, dictating to my loyal, and sometimes not so loyal, tropican subjects. There are two issues I have with the game, one is that once your island starts to get developed, with a higher population, and lots of buildings and things going on, there is an annoying lag between clicks - but it is not like you need your toothbrush and jammies, just a delay. My other issue with the game is that there never seem to be enough construction offices to get a job done - I expect that this has more to do with the way I play the game than the AI. The sound track is a kick, but makes my wife crave chips and salsa. Mmmmm salsa... be right back. Over all - this is a great strategy / sim game, and I highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys the genera. After all, who doesn't want to the supreme ruler of their own tropical paradise?
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Summary: Welcome, Presidente!
Review: The game is awesome - I have spent many afternoons of free time, dictating to my loyal, and sometimes not so loyal, tropican subjects. There are two issues I have with the game, one is that once your island starts to get developed, with a higher population, and lots of buildings and things going on, there is an annoying lag between clicks - but it is not like you need your toothbrush and jammies, just a delay. My other issue with the game is that there never seem to be enough construction offices to get a job done - I expect that this has more to do with the way I play the game than the AI. The sound track is a kick, but makes my wife crave chips and salsa. Mmmmm salsa... be right back. Over all - this is a great strategy / sim game, and I highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys the genera. After all, who doesn't want to the supreme ruler of their own tropical paradise?
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Summary: awesome
Review: this is a great game. you can even produce those classic Southern Island Cigars that we all know so well
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Summary: Great if you like sim games
Review: This is outstanding if you like sim games. Graphics, music, etc. are all excellent. The reason why I only played it for a few hours is because I just don't enjoy all of the detail I need to attend to in the game. If you are the type who loves building model railroad environments with trees, stores, houses, etc, this will be right up your alley. I couldn't care less about planting shrubs or building tobacco plantations on this island. I grew so tired of it that I was hoping for a peasant uprising just to get some excitement going. Eventually, once the novelty of the premise wore off, I deleted it from my hard drive for good. Not my cup of tea. Like the SIms game (where you even have to have the characters empty their bladders) it is just boring to be responsible for so much inconsequential detail.
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Summary: This is possibly one of the best strategy games ever!
Review: Tropico is a great strategy game because of the different people you interact with. Also you can customize the landscape and difficulty. I like it because it is like a real government on an impoverished island. There are many political factions in the game that you must please to stay in office. If you choose not to please these factions you can be certain that rebellions will occur. Although putting down rebellions is fun too. Overall this game is really fun if you like real life strategy games, because of the many things that are possible in the game and the diverse people.
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Summary: PRESIDENTE: WELCOME TO THE FANTASY ISLAND
Review: Watch your Island turn into the new pearl of the caribbean, by building casinos, cabarets, pubs, nightclubs; or either watch it become a Banana Republic. ¿Pro-russian or Pro-american?, ¿A development bank or a presidential's slush fund? Have some tourism campaign to attract the tourists, have a pop star to visit the island and have him increase attendance to clubs... build airports, houses, luxury houses, stadiums, or even hire "Tatoo" to welcome the visitors to YOUR fantasy island. It's up to you, cause in tropico, you just rule...
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Summary: It's a review!
Review: With the somewhat sparse selection of Mac games, I pre-ordered Tropico at the same time as I got the Diablo II expansion pack. When Tropico finally came, I installed it and haven't gone back to Diablo II yet. You start the game by taking control of an island in the Caribbean Sea as "El Presidente" in 1950. Either starting from scratch or choosing a pre-built scenario like in Sim City, you build it up with apartments and tenements, farms and mines, and about 50 other buildings. At the same time, you have to try and appease the communist and capitalist factions on the island, as well as 4 others. If you don't, protesters and rebels might pop up, and U.S. gunboats could even threaten an invasion. Or, you could simply lose the next election, unless, of course, you "re-interpret the ballots". Tropico has a fairly large learning curve, but there's a good tutorial, the first one in a game I've liked, and an advisor will give you tips as the game progresses. You can just go in and mess around, or look at incredibly detailed charts and check out each individual named character with specific traits and feelings as you become more comfortable with the game. Also, there is no instant gratification for getting money; if you build a farm, for example, you don't get paid until the planted crops grow, are harvested, and carried to the dock. This involves a lot of strategy, and you might spend a year or two in the hole until the tobacco gets sold, and you pop up to $30,000 immediately. The music is also perfect, a great island mix that really sets the mood. Unfortunately, I can only give it 4 stars, because there are some fairly important things that need to be fixed in a patch. Buildings can't be rotated, bulldozing things isn't instantaneous, I haven't found a way to delete saved games in the program, and a couple other aspects detract from the game. However, they don't cause any major problems, and Tropico remains one of my favorite games that will probably keep me occupied all the way until Civ 3 comes out. Definitely pick this game up, it's well worth your time and money.
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