TL;DR: A city builder that gives an interesting twist on the classic genre. It's the colonial era. Your only job is to keep the crown off your back. But the crown keeps nagging. Build this building it says. Give me money it says. You're getting pretty fed up with all of the complaints when a rebel leader approaches you. "We can be free," she says, "Just build a library and raise a small army, then we declare independence." You pen a small constitution on the ideals of democracy. It's WW2. Both sides are demanding all sorts of things, iron, cigars, rum. You know that some people care a great deal about who wins the war, but you can't be bothered. Money is flowing and your people couldn't be happier. It's the cold war. The communist party on the island isn't happy about your lack of housing. The environmentalists are whining your mining operations. The religious want another church. But, you have a factory to complete. After all, that furniture won't build itself! So you tell them to hold on a minute, you'll get to their demands. But you don't have a minute, the election is next month and your approval rating is in the toilet. So you say to yourself, just this once and declare martial law. It's the modern era. Your people haven't voted since the Berlin Wall fell, but you know what's best for them. Liberty? Housing? Health care? All your people need are a strong police force and good profits flowing into Tropico. Of course, a little in the Swiss Bank account couldn't hurt either... In Tropico, I never found myself micromanaging, though I always could as there were options like "Denounce someone you don't like" and "Fire this ONE guy from his job." However, the game is content to let you sit back and plan the bigger things. The dictator twist elevates this game from another city builder into a true gem. A few strange bugs that keep the game from being winnable at times stop this game from a perfect score, but they are rare and overall the game is a load of fun.
