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| Addiction Level | 6/10  |
|---|---|
| Graphics | 7/10 |
| Value for Money | 7/10 |
| Overall rating | 6.5/10 |
Full review by
hazxan
on 16th Sep 2005
User Rating : 6
Respect :
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Good Points: The music is brilliant. It is a slow moving, relaxing kind of game.
Bad Points: Repetitive. Good to start with, but wears out very quickly.
General comments: Tropico seemed like a good absorbing game when I first played it. It's a 'builder' game, broadly similar to Sim City and the Caesar/Pharaoh series of games. You build houses, hospitals, farms, and industrial buildings on a small island. If you do it well, the people like you, the population increases, your cash increases, and you can build bigger stuff.
The problem, is that having finished one island, I adjusted the settings and started another, and quickly found that it was all exactly the same as my first game! Compared to a similar game such as Pharaoh, Tropico has far fewer choices of building, and it's economic model is far too simple. After one game, lasting maybe 3 evenings, I'd seen just about everything Tropico could offer.
Like Sim City, a mission in Tropico has no real goal other than to build for the time limit. Sim City provides many more variations though, and even after half a dozen games, you'll still find out something new. In Tropico you're always on a tiny island, I think the game world is just too small!
I must comment on the excellent music though. It's as good as any music I've ever heard in a game. After getting hooked on the Cuban/Latin soundtrack to Tropico, I've started listening to Latin music.
Overall, I could only recommend Tropico to someone who wants a really laid-back, non challenging type of game.
hazxan's review and ratings | 260 words
Review by
British 241
on 3rd Aug 2004
User Rating : 7
Respect :
0
Tropico is a challenging management game where you run an island in the Carribean but can easily be chucked out if you make the wrong moves. It can become quite hard depending on the pregame scenario you set (e.g amount of plants, minerals, initial population, leader's qualities, etc.) and the scenario that gets set during the game (e.g amount of remaining funds, popularity of civilians and military, etc.).
The game is generally "a make your own objectives up" game like Simcity 4. This qualit ...
British 241's full review | 257 words
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