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Tropico (Mac)

by Feral Interactive
Platform:   Mac
4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)

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Game Information

  • Platform:   Mac
  • ELSPA Minimum Age: 11
  • Media: Video Game

Product Features

  • Mixture of building-orientated gameplay and political intrigue
  • Become the dictator of an obscure Caribbean island
  • Over 100 structures to build
  • Build your own secret police!
  • Keep your people happy

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  • ASIN: B00005QCN8
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 21,568 in PC & Video Games (See Bestsellers in PC & Video Games)

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Product Description

As the newly installed dictator of an obscure Caribbean island, build a path of progress for a nation mired in poverty, civil unrest and in fighting. Oh, and stash a few million in your Swiss bank account just in case you need to take early retirement.

Tropico takes the addictive building-oriented gameplay of hits such as SimCity 3000 and Railroad Tycoon 2, combined with a healthy dose of Latin American political intrigue, and bundles it up in an easy-to-learn, hard to master, utterly addictive package.

Tropico is first and foremost a builder. Tropico provides more than 100 structures to build, from hotels and spas for tourists to banana groves, sugar plantations and copper mines for food and basic exports, to rum distilleries and cigar factories for basic industry. Industry, mining, agriculture or tourism, you choose to shape the economy to your vision. And don't let your lust for Yanqui dollars overcome your concern for the plight of your people. (or they'll overcome your palace guards and teach you a lesson in mob justice). As a precaution against such unpleasantness, may we suggest building the secret police headquarters for ferreting out and re-educating your misinformed dissidents?

Your island's inhabitants are fleshed out individuals, most of whom support you as their leader (at least initially). They go about their daily business striving for happiness under your enlightened rule. They have homes, jobs and identities, and they like being safe, well-fed, employed and spiritually enriched. Plan your growth well, and you'll have plenty of money to buy your people's favour.

Plan your growth poorly, and, well, there's always martial law.

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Tropico: Be a dictator!, 27 Sep 2001
By A Customer
Tropico is one of the more unusual simulations availble for the mac. Wherelse can you play at being a dictator? In Tropico you are cast as the dictator of a small and obscure carribean republic. You can either rule with an iron fist or be a fair ruler.
The game itself has excellent graphics and you can build over 100 different buildings as well as have 46 different characters. In addition to being able to build your own island, there are also several different scenarios for you to try. You can even play at being Castro humself!
All in all a good sim with a lot of gameplay.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Presidente! The people love you!!!, 14 May 2002
By A Customer
This is a highly entertaining game, with bouncy music that really gets you in the mood and fairly humourous voice-overs when you click on people (the tourists are sterotypical yet amusing, go on, click a Brit!).
The graphics are simply gorgeous even though, even on this 600Mhz Flower Power iMac o' mine, they turn very pixellated, especially in the opening sequence.
One major let down on this game is that in some aspects it's terribly hard, even on the easy levels. Potting up plants and trees should only be a chore in a real life, not on a game. It's extremely hard to keep everyone happy, which spoils the fun quite a lot.
I'm not saying it should be so easy it hurts, but it could be just a little bit lighter on the brain.
And getting into debt's no fun because it's virtually impossible to get out again.
If you have a lot of patience and are easily amused, this is one game to lean towards.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Tropico - fun game but slows down a little later on, 3 Jan 2005
By Mr. Sean Kehoe "Sean" (Ireland) - See all my reviews
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This game is quite entertaining. Visually it's excellent and the latin-sounding music is very atmospheric. The user interface is fairly good but it takes a little time to learn where everything is.

The game itself has a few areas you need to watch. The political side has to be worked on unless you want to be chased away in to the jungle. You need to grow the economy - you're people don't like having to eat stones and live in jungles. Of course, you need to maintain relations with the US and the USSR unless of course you want to be on the receiving end of a regime change.

The installer is very easy to use, the documentation is quite useful - if a little hard to read because it's black text on grey paper.

The only downside really is that it does tend to slow down as your island grows. I've run this on an iBook 600 MHz and a PowerBook G4 1.5GHz and still find it slows down to a fairly frustrating speed after a few hours. You can adjust some settings to ease this but a slow-down seems inevitable.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Mad island fun!
Tropico is a simulation game. Your job is to build up an island using the tools and buildings provided. Read more
Published on 2 Oct 2001

5.0 out of 5 stars Tropico
Tropico is a very good game. The graphics are excellent, using the 45 degree perspective is fun, and the rendering is brilliant. The usability and playability is high. Read more
Published on 28 Sep 2001 by Alex

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