Tropico and expansion

Advantages: Great fun to play
Disadvantages: Could spend too long on the PC not enough doing housework!

...I am a great fan of games like this, where you manage little worlds! When I first got Tropico, I thought, brilliant, a place where you can control pieces of land, develop tourist traps and build cities. For this, it is great. You are "El Presidento" and you control the people. El Presidento can be evil and ruthless or can be generous and caring. You choose from various scenarios that should be completed in a set time - where you must meet the objectives - or you can play a random map and do basically what you like. You choose the type of land you like, i.e. hilly, small, choose your population amount, and plan out where you are going to build for the workers on the land, then where you are going to place your tourist area. Once you start making the people happy (which is recommended so that they want to visit your island), by...

Molefay 17.08.2002 · Read review
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tropico the game and cheats

Advantages: Good to play if you like games like sims & settlers
Disadvantages: Not a good tutorial so you have to learn as you play

...How would you like to run a carribean island? well not a real one just one on the computer game tropico. You are the president of a carribean island and have to make money and build up your population. The first thing you have to do is get some money in so more people come to your island. You can do this by building farms (which also feed you people), mines, tourist places (hotels, swimming pools), nightclubs & resturants. You also need to keep you people happy to make them stay on the island. To do this you must make sure there is not much pollution, build them good houses, give them good paid jobs, and build lots of places for entertainment (pubs, nightclubs, casinos etc). The also need churches for the religous people and schools and colleges for people to learn useful skills. You have an election once every 10 years (or earlier if...

fredrick 13.07.2001 (14.07.2001) · Read review
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Review of Tropico (PC)

Fancy A Cuban Anyone

Advantages: Challenging
Disadvantages: No Scenario Editor

...~ 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 must also ensure that your citizens (tropican’s) have a good quality of life and this is achieved by building structures for entertainment, education, housing etc.. all as an overhead to...

Wolfie1974 01.09.2002 · Read review
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  Master of paradise

Advantages: Decent strategy elements; great subject matter; good graphics
Disadvantages: Lacks key menu options; unwieldy interface; evil measures sometimes ineffective

...I confess. I dream of conquering the world and forcing the unwashed masses to follow my every decree, no matter how depraved or insane it may be. And that?s why I was so excited about Tropico, the strategy game from Pop Top Software (the same folks made the excellent Railroad Tycoon II) that casts you as the dictator of a small Caribbean island. Here at last was the chance to fulfill all those twisted ambitions and carry out horrible acts of retribution on my enemies. Alas for me, while Tropico does deliver a good strategy game, it fails to fully realize its twisted potential. The premise behind Tropico is pure gold. The year is 1950, the Cold War is raging, and you?re the recently installed dictator of a Caribbean island firmly in the pocket of the U.S.S.R. Tropico offers two basic types of gameplay. You can either play one...

SirLink 30.01.2004 · Read review
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Review of Tropico (PC)

I rule on high as El Presidente!

Advantages: Compelling, addictive game play, highly indepth with great "God" opportunities
Disadvantages: Needs a lot of concentration and a good deal of patience

...I love simulation games, much to the disgust of friends and family, who have been known to accuse me of ?ignoring them in favour of little pixel people who speak gibberish.? Nevertheless, that didn?t stop my parents recently buying me a huge pile of older style simulation games for my birthday. In amongst these was one I?d never heard of before ? Tropico. WHAT IS IT? Tropico is a management Sim, along the lines of games such as Sim City. However, in the case of Tropico you?re controlling not just a city but also the entire island of Tropico, in your role as the new Presidenté GAMEPLAY: The game starts with an optional tutorial which takes you through the basics of getting going in your new role as El Presidenté, things like building housing for citizens, having a closer look at your surroundings and how to build up your...

shorn_the_sheep 03.12.2003 · Read review
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you CAN rule!!!!!!!

Advantages: addictive, playable, enjoyable......challenging.....
Disadvantages: little repetitive...........

...Tropico???. The ultimate God sim. Tropico is for all you strategists who like to control people directly. STORY You are being put in charge as El Presidente of a Caribbean island. Its your job to meet the peoples needs and wants. First of all, the menu screen is pretty basic and easy to understand, there are four options listed in the same order as below: TUTORIAL GAME EXTRAS EXIT As you can see, its pretty hard not to get lost! TUTORIAL The Tutorial, this tutorial is very basic and you learn most of the techniques needed in this. Its very easy to understand and highlights what it needed to pressed, what each button does how to keep your people happy, explains the citizens needs and so on. GAME There are two options when you start the game. One is to play a pre-designed island, the other to customise your...

zx737 13.02.2006 (14.02.2006) · Read review
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Dictation Lessons

Advantages: enjoyable watching the country grow
Disadvantages: not quite enough depth

..."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 trade and these profitable years had enabled me to cream off several thousand dollars into my Swiss Bank Account. But as rumour of the prosperity of Tropico had spread around the Caribbean...

DavidJWest 14.08.2001 · Read review
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Review of Tropico (PC)

Yes El Presidente

Advantages: Great fun + a good laugh
Disadvantages: None really

...El Presidente, now is your chance to show what you are made of! In Tropico, you are the dictator of a bannana republic. A sort of politics / economics / take the mick-ish simulation game. The viewpoint is somewhere between Anno 1602 with zoom and rotation views limited in the way that is, and Settlers, in that you can zoom in much futher and watch your people build places. Each person has a name, needs, and political viewpoints, and you have to try and satisfy everyone - from the militarists, to the communists and the intellectuals. Build houses for your people to live in, police and a military to show your power, bars and nightclubs for entertainment. You can build schools and colleges to educate your workers, hospitals for heathcare, churches for spiritual care. Hotels, spas and other luxuries attract visitors. Your...

booknet 04.12.2001 · Read review
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Review of Tropico (PC)

Tropical Madness and Mayhem

Advantages: Graphics are brilliant Game play is great
Disadvantages: erm...none it is ace

...I love these kinds of games. Being a huge sim, theme hospital and rollercoaster tycoon fan, I new I would love this game. Build your own Tropical paradise. You are the president and everything is left to you. Sound like fun? Well it is, so read on. *********************GAME INFORMATION***************** Tropico, is a management/role playing game, for the PC. You are the President. You have to: *Plan your Island *Hire staff *Build buildings *Pay wages *Provide entertainment *Grow crops *Attract tourists and generally maintain your leadership. To stay in power, you must win the elections. These are held every 8 to 10 years. To maintain your leadership, you must: *Keep your people happy *Provide varied entertainment *Provide good, well payed jobs *Keep crime down to a minimum *Run the Island successfully If...

purebitch 22.02.2002 (21.08.2002) · Read review
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Tropical Paradise All Of My Own

Advantages: Bright and Colourful cute characters brilliant graphics
Disadvantages: let me see...

...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 choose from which are: 1.Born Again. This Island has been struck by an Earthquake and only 20 people and a few selected buildings have survived. You have to rebuild the Island...

cuddlybear2002 21.02.2002 · Read review
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