Tropico

Description

Tropico is a real-time strategy game that mixes elements of Sim City, the various Tycoon games, and even a little of the Sims into a city-building, managerial type game in a unique location.

You are the recently elected/installed/victorious (depending on how you achieved office) president of a small Caribbean island named Tropico. Before you lies a small community of people and a lush, rich island to improve or exploit at your will. You can become a benevolent ruler who brings this third world country into the realm of economic superpowers or you can be a ruthless dictator whose sole goal is to leech as much personal wealth as he can from the populace before they get the courage to rebel.

Using a modified engine from their previous game, Railroad Tycoon II, PopTop Software utilizes isometric graphics on a 3-D terrain to represent the island. Clouds float overhead, sometimes throwing lightning down, people walk from their homes to their chores, and hills and forests get leveled in the name of progress. All this happens at the user-specified speed and its the main user interface as players specify new construction, lay down edicts, and keep tabs on their citizens.

Each citizen is his or her own entity, with their own names, relationships to other citizens, wants and desires. Some feel the need to excel in studies, others seek religious enlightenment, some just want a good time. They even take political affiliations and work towards those ends. The citizens of Tropico do not blindly follow orders, they must be persuaded through meeting their desires, or just pure greed or terror. If you wished, you could follow the life of a citizen from childhood through his/her teenage years, through the course of several jobs, all the way to retirement and death.

A single-player only game, there are both set scenarios and random islands to play through, with various difficulty levels including a sandbox mode that allows you to play around without worrying about money or political ramifications.

Alternate Titles

• "热带岛国" -- Chinese title (simplified)
• "Тропико" -- Russian title
• "Banana Republic" -- Working title

Part of the Following Group

• Tropico series

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User Reviews

Fun, but nearly impossible!	Windows	Santa (847)
It would have been better if there had been more scenarios to play on	Windows	James Walter (249)
Game Rating 71%	Windows	William Shawn McDonie (1163)
If there is a latin expression to translate "Doh" for a game. This would be it.	Windows	Indra Depari of 'da Clan Depari (13163)

The Press Says

Game Informer Magazine	Windows	Jul, 2001	9.25 out of 10	92
Strategy Gaming Online	Windows	May 27, 2001	9.2 out of 10	92
IGN	Windows	May 04, 2001	8.8 out of 10	88
Power Unlimited	Windows	Jul, 2001	87 out of 100	87
GameSpot (Belgium/Netherlands)	Windows	May 02, 2001	85 out of 100	85
PC Action	Windows	May 04, 2001	85 out of 100	85
Game Informer Magazine	Windows	Jul, 2001	8 out of 10	80
ActionTrip	Windows	May 08, 2001	78 out of 100	78
Jeuxvideo.com	Windows	Apr 30, 2001	15 out of 20	75
JeuxMac.com	Macintosh	Dec, 2001	3 out of 5	60

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Trivia

The game was meant to be named Banana Republic, but it had to be changed to Tropico since there is a clothes brand named Banana Republic.