Vote El Presidente--or else!
You decide whether you want to use your army to secure your power base in the best traditions of corrupt, unscrupulous tyrants everywhere or lead your people to prosperity in your role as generous elder statesman.
Don´t forget to keep a sharp eye on the dangers and sid...
You decide whether you want to use your army to secure your power base in the best traditions of corrupt, unscrupulous tyrants everywhere or lead your people to prosperity in your role as generous elder statesman.
Don´t forget to keep a sharp eye on the dangers and side-effects of your absolute power! Obstacles lurk on around every corner, whether it’s militant revolutionaries bent on installing a communist junta, or the machinations of the superpowers USA and the Soviet Union, both of whom would like to see a more amenable ruler in strategically important Tropico!
It’s good to be El Presidente. As your “election” campaign said, “Vote El Presidente. Vote often!”
Additional bonus content included:
- 2 maps for the sandbox mode (Verde Playa, Coco Chico Map).
- 2 additional costumes for the El Presidente avatar editor.
- 2 additional accessories for the El Presidente avatar editor (Baseball Hat, Commie Hat).
Tropico 3 Gold Edition includes the original Tropico 3 and its expansion: Tropico 3: Absolute Power.
Run your island as a benevolent dictator or a diabolical despot
Wander the island in “avatar mode” as El Presidente and directly influence the course of play!
Use political speeches, edicts, and “other” means of influence to control your people.
A random mission generator means no two games will be the same.
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Please be advised that Windows 10 operating system will receive frequent hardware driver and software updates following its release; this may affect game compatibility
Recommended system requirements:
Please be advised that Windows 10 operating system will receive frequent hardware driver and software updates following its release; this may affect game compatibility
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This is the game that introduced humor into the Tropico franchise. It's not quite as refined as Tropico 4, but it's still enjoyable. And the graphics still look nice in the present.
So in Tropico you play the role of leader and need to fulfill certain objectives like building the economy, imrpoving the living conditions of your citizens, defending against rebels, etc.
You get to build up the island you rule, issues edicts that add buffs, have citizens targeted through specific interactions and interact with the outside world best you can to gain some leverage for yourself. You can also choose a specific ruler when starting an insland to get certain buffs, which, depending on your mission, can be quite useful. You citizens also have starts of what they are good at and what they would like to have in order to be happy.
It all sounds very fun, but there are some serious issues. The bigest one is building. It is very hard to have a reliable construction rate throughout the game. The longer the game goes, the more inefficient you construction workers get. It comes to a point that if you dont look after what they are doing you wont have anything built. Building more construction shops doesnt help.
Another issues is lack of information. How much certain building produce, how much they use for production, how much they export. You only get to see if they are profitable or not.
While the game gives you quite a bit of information that would allow you to micromanage your citizens, you dont have a lot of options of doing so. For example, you can fire anyone from their job, but cant assign them to another. He has to decide for himself. And there is no gurantee the fired person will go into the job you want him to, even if the pay is good. With the amount of things going on on the island, you wont be able to afford babysitting individuals citizens.
The ledger where you can get an overview of the things you have is also somewhat unintuitive and it can be hard finding information you want/need.
I enjoyed the game for what it had, but the issues outlined make it an average experience at best.
I really wanted to try this out, but I, like others before now, have been hit by the DX 9 incompatibility error which crashes the game as it tries to start. The fact that this has gone unsolved through a patch or update in over a year is disappointing to say the least.
It sounds like the game doesn't support a number of integrated chipsets, so be careful when buying it. I have a Radeon HD 6xxxM card, if you do as well steer clear.
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