Tropico (PC)

Having recently one up to the loft with hubby to have a tidy up and get organised up there, I came across a box of games that I had bought from Ebay the winter before we moved, packed, and then mislaid, and all before even getting to play them! One of the games in my found treasure trove as Tropico. If you are a fan of games such as SimCIty, this is a game that will not disappoint. Tropico is an island republic and the various factions there have elected you El Presidente of a Latin American Caribbean island in the year 1950. You have to maintain a firm grip on your rule, satisfying the military to prevent a coup, the communists to prevent an insurrection, ...  Read the complete review

~ Overview ~ Tropico is a game whereby you take the role of the newly installed dictator (El Presidenté) of a Caribbean island in the 1950's, which is both underdeveloped and relatively poor with as little as a handful of corn farms, a dock, some immigrants living in tin shacks and the presidential palace. It is then your job to develop this island by building industries such as farming, resource gathering, mining and tourism and in turn some resources can be manufactured into products, i.e. sugar into rum, or tobacco into cigars. However, to achieve your objective of making a stonking huge profit and to build up that bank balance, you ...  Read the complete review

Tropico is different. Sure it is the first Sim based on being a dictator of a small island but it also plays differently. For seasoned SIM addicts most games can be just jumped into and you will figure it all out in a few hours. Tropico initially appears just like any other sim game. Build a bit of this and that and provided you dont do anything stupid you will do OK. This maybe true for the open ended scenario but there are also some pre designed games on here that are very difficult. The scenarios themselves just add a little twist but the real challenge is trying to keep everyone happy so you get re-elected. The actual gameplay involves building ...  Read the complete review

"El Presidente, the people grow restless!", my advisor exclaimed bursting into my plush stateroom. It was true, after a decade of my rule over the island paradise of Tropico, the lack of public amenities was making my rule unpopular. Tough decisions had to be made and soon, even tougher than the decisions already taken. After a landslide victory in the last free elections the honeymoon period was over. In those halcyon days the population numbered a mere 45 and it was easy to make money simply by diversifying our corn farms into tobacco. The cost of new housing to replace the shanty towns the locals inhabited had easily been met by the new ...  Read the complete review

I was in town the other day when I spotted a really bright and colourful looking game in Electronics Boutique.This game as you might have already guessed was called Tropico. It was priced at 14.99 so I bought it and raced home to install it (which was very easy and only took about 5 minutes). When I loaded it up I was dazzled by how pretty and colourful the Intro was. First of all I recommend you go through the Tutorial, after that you will have to decide what sort of game you want to play, you can choose from either a Pre-designed Scenario or a Random Map. If you choose to play a Pre-designed Scenario then you are given 8 different Islands to ...  Read the complete review