Tropico 4

I may be a bit biased since this was the first Tropico I had the pleasure of playing and it still holds up fantastically well. There are a couple campaigns, as well as stand alone scenarios, and a sandbox mode. You are planced on to tropical islands as the Presidente and it's your goal to turn the island into a profitable paradise, and keep your people happy... or you could not care about that and create a profitable hell hole that keeps functioning because of your military might. The charm and personality of this game is it's biggest appeal in my humble opinion, with an interesting cast of character's and Caricature's based on influential people from the era(s) this game takes place in.

i have a good time playing this game.. but, once you win the game, you dont want to play again... is bored to play the same.. its a game made for two days of gameplay, establilsh you city and never play again... anyway i enjoyed the two days :)

I'm guessing Haemimont's last Latin American despot simulator didn't go down too well in Havana or Buenos Aires. In Tropico 3 if you chose Che Guevara as your avatar you got an inspiring workhorse with alcohol and anger issues. Picking Juan Peron meant donning the dinner jacket of a flatulent moron. This time out Che's only vice is his paranoia, and super-smart Juan leaves the gaseous emissions to his chemical works. Welcome to the subtly tweaked world of Tropico 4. While this instalment confirms the series as gaming's most charismatic city builder, it's hard to shake the feeling that the Bulgarian devs are running out of ideas. Exhibit 'A': the introduction of pointless building plans and inconsequential ministers. Exhibit 'B': the extra foreign presences. I'm perfectly willing to accept that my tiny banana republic must spend much of the Cold War delicately courting the two superpowers, but should I really be worrying about relations with the Middle East, the 'European Union' and the famously insular Chinese? The Tropicos have always overflowed with tangy period flavour. Anachronistic additions like this only dilute that flavour. LATEST VIDEOS FROM pcgamer The same could be said for some of the new structures. Many of the added buildables – amenities such as the shopping mall, aqua park and cruise liner – augment the game's lucrative but frothy tourist-industry side. Personally, I'd much rather have seen transport or civil engineering improvements. Four episodes into the series, and we still can't set up bus routes or tram lines, dig tunnels or build bridges. Just as in Tropico 3, the most pressing late-game concerns are usually traffic jams and garage provision. Huge island communities can get by with a single restaurant or pub, but seem to need a vehicle supplier on every corner. The most useful new facilities have to be the weather and fire stations. Erect these and your populace is protected from the worst ravages of volcanoes, tsunamis and twisters. Mo

I played this game a lot in highschool and it was just as comforting to me then as it is now. It's such a great game. Funny characters, a good campaign which challenges your abilities to balance tasks, many different ways of approaching each island design in each mission and overall, really satisfying to see your island build up over time and teem with more life as you go. Highly recommend the Tropico series to any city build sim fan. Definitely start with this and work up to the latest, you'll have a great time.

Worth buying, the graphics are good and the game is fun.