Tropico 3
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Engage in a tropical power trip! Become the dictator of a remote island during the Cold War. Charm, persuade, intimidate, oppress, or cheat your people to stay in power! Are you a kind and generous leader? A corrupt and ruthless tyrant ruling with an iron fist? Turn your island into a tourist paradise or an industrial power. Make promises to the electorate or slander political adversaries to get the crucial votes for the upcoming elections. Send ... » full description
Engage in a tropical power trip! Become the dictator of a remote island during the Cold War. Charm, persuade, intimidate, oppress, or cheat your people to stay in power! Are you a kind and generous leader? A corrupt and ruthless tyrant ruling with an iron fist? Turn your island into a tourist paradise or an industrial power. Make promises to the electorate or slander political adversaries to get the crucial votes for the upcoming elections. Send your avatar to congratulate the people, visit the island of another player, or just sun-bathe on the Caribbean beach. Play the Cold War superpowers against each other to your maximum advantage. Tropico 3 offers a tongue-in-cheek, light-hearted take on real world issues like third world politics, corruption and totalitarian regimes. Are you ready to rule your own banana republic? If you answered yes, then Tropico 3 is the game for you. Features: * A Comprehensive campaign with 15 new missions * Multiple ways to make money including Commerce, Industry, Mining, Agriculture etc. * A timeline editor to create fictional events or real ones * Avatar function lets you travel the Island as El Presidente - Each avatar is a customizable character that the player creates and controls - Choose gender and customize face, hairstyle, facial hair, hat, clothing, and additional accessories * Speeches, edicts and many ways to gain influence * A wide range of editing and moderation functions * Mission generator for random map creation, including unlimited Pesos, etc. * The Cinematic highly detailed Graphics simulate the actual caribbean * Visit islands controlled by other players * Online scoring against other players « short desciption
User Reviews
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Review Date: 2009-11-22
I never played Tropico 1 or 2, but I do enjoy Evil Genius, Dungeon Keeper and Dwarf Fortress. I love games that let me build up an empire and repel attacks without being completely focused on combat all the time as in a standard RTS.
This game has a lot going for it. Think "Sim City" with the additional need to balance out political factions and put up with rebels. In Sim City, unhappy sims would simply leave. In Tropico 3, they're more likely to pick up a gun and try to overthrow you directly.
That said, the game has some faults that are making it into a pretty short lived affair. I've put in maybe 8 full sandbox rounds and I don't think I've got many more left in me.
The problems I had:
* It's too easy. It's not hard to go through the whole game without a single rebel. Factions are easily made happy and the extreme measures of dealing with rowdy individuals available to a tropical dictator seem to be unnecessary. Even if I configure a custom game with politics as unstable as it will let me and with "Rebel Yell" turned on, which makes my citizens even more likely to rebel, I still find rebellions aren't that big of a threat. They're even less of a threat than the occasional invading party in Dungeon Keeper.
* Combat is too forgiving. You don't really have any control during combat, which is fine, really, but the mechanics of it are still rather silly. When the rebels do finally show up, they will try to sabotage a structure a run away -- except before they do this, they will politely stand near it until literally your entire army has shown up. Consequently there's no reason to plan out how to distribute your guard towers to deal with threats quickly. Just build all your military stuff in one place and put a parking garage nearby. The rebels will wait until you show up, no matter how long it takes to get there.
* No "win" condition + no scoreboard. You rule for a set period of time and then the scoreboard comes up. The only measure of whether you did well or not is your score, and it doesn't save your score, so you have nothing to compare it too short of writing down your previous scores.
* The foreign invasion is literally just a "game over" mechanism. I once played the game aiming to annoy the US because I wanted to see what it was like when the US invaded. Could I make a big enough military and fight them off? No. The scoreboard just pops up. You lose immediately. Rather anti-climatic.
So, there is a lot to like here (I never told you of her charms...) but the negatives kind of make it into a "meh" experience. If you see this game in the bargain bin, you can't go wrong, but as an interesting long term strategy game it falls short.
I'm still holding out hope that they might change how combat and politics works with a patch. There needs to be more room to up the difficulty. It could be a great game with just a few minor adjustments.
User: Pecos Bill
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Summary: Fun, but short lived
Helpful Votes: 0
Total Votes: 0
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Review Date: 2009-11-20
I enjoy this game alot in the begining. I won several of the easier seniarios. But it got repetive really fast.
User: Michael J. Hudson
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Summary: nice
Helpful Votes: 0
Total Votes: 1
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Review Date: 2009-11-17
This game is awesome, The graphics are pristine and seamless contributing well to the overall game play. The dynamic lighting gives a real sense of beauty to each unique island. The economy based game is fun in the sense of the choices the player can make (i.e, Communist, Capitalist, alliances liberty level). Rebel attacks are fun and the custom avatar feature is a fun addition as well. I highly recommend this game to anyone who enjoys economy based RTS games.
User: Dylan Gale
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Summary: Tropico 3
Helpful Votes: 0
Total Votes: 0
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Review Date: 2009-10-30
One of the best things about this game is the fact that the developers still respect the gamers/fans - there is no DRM or Online Activation Requirement (Steam). All you need to do to start playing Tropico 3, is enter the key code included with the game (just like the good old days!) Way to go Kalypso... thank you for having faith in your fans!!!
As for the game itself...
10/10 - The developers stayed faithful to the original Tropico, basically combining the original & its expansion into one game... and then updating it. They have added great new features such as a customizable avatar & vehicles. These two features alone add an extra layer of depth, realism and playability missing from the original series.
I have also found the game to be almost bug free... this is very refreshing, since most new games seem to be released unfinished & still in Beta (Empire: Total War anyone?)
The only critique I would give this game is the need for more of everything - more customizable options for your avatar, more building types or design variations of current buildings, more edict options... more, more, more. If an expansion is made for this game, I think it should be: "Tropico 3: Mas Todo" - no major theme change is needed, just more of everything!
Tropico 3 is a very fun & addicting game!
User: The Ultimate Warrior Jr.
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Summary: Very Fun Game That Has No DRM or Online Activation Requirememt!!!
Helpful Votes: 11
Total Votes: 15
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Review Date: 2009-10-24
I was hoping for some newness in Tropico 3: some improvements... I only played the demo but it was pretty much the same as the first ones with better graphics. If graphics mean a lot to you, you may want it. The avatar is annoying, and they take forever to build anything. The AI is not as smart, since it takes the builders a lot longer to even notice when a building needs to be built.
But I like the new ability to design a simple speech when you run for office. I wanted MORE game play upgrades even if it means less graphics. Graphics are not that important to me. I rate it OK, and very disappointing because its the same as the other ones.
User: Shareallicu
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Summary: Same as before
Helpful Votes: 1
Total Votes: 8
Product Details
- EL PRESIDENTE IS BACK! Rule as all-powerful, El Presidente as you decide whether to turn your tropical island into a vacation paradise, a prosperous industrial nation or JAIL the masses in your Banana Republic
- Features a comprehensive campaign mode with 15 unique and challenging missions. Players can now explore a gorgeous, 3D world. Tropico 3 is the latest sequel to the critically acclaimed, award-winning strategy/sim classics Tropico and Tropico 2.
- You rule your Caribbean island as El Presidente intimidating political opponents, giving populist speeches and enjoying the Island flair!
- A timeline editor, online functionality and sensational Latin soundtrack take Tropico 3 to the next level of fun
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