Those who have played Tropico before will be familiar with its foibles and tribulations.
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There’s dark clouds brewing just out at sea.Īfter all, who cares if the apartment complexes are overrun with cockroaches? So what if the gold mines are death traps and pay a dollar a day? You're raking in the cash, siphoning it into your offshore Swiss bank account.īut illiterate and impoverished, people eventually crack and before long you're under siege in you lush presidential palace with groups threatening your stranglehold over the island as they chant your name in tune with 'le head on le stick'. China doesn’t though and suddenly your foreign workers are preventing your newly educated locals from higher paid jobs. Instead of fear, you lead with a desire to please.
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You’re free to play the happy-go-lucky guy that everyone wants to be friends with. That said, there's not actually any requirement to emulate Castro. It's all fun and games for you and your virtual dictator (who’s controllable and provides temporary buffs wherever he visits). Imports skyrocket in price, Russia wants to invade. This then leads to discontent – a museum offsets the result for only so long.
Your income from tobacco farming is down so you have to reduce the worker wages. The loyalists are unhappy with your international positioning and the God-fearing public demand you build more churches. Never fear though, its statistical underbelly is always rumbling on.Īs you coo and take joy from the influx of happy (for the meanwhile) immigrants, the game's hard at work calculating the effects of your decrees. It possesses an acute sense of detail which is hidden beneath quaint Cuban charm. It may hide under a pair of snazzy Rayban sunglasses, but like every good simulation, Tropico 4 keeps you busy without you even realising it. Then again, what else do you expect from a complex management simulation. Forget the BAR exam, this should be the legal requirement for high-pressured law. It requires juggling of mammoth proportions and an acute ability to multitask under pressure. Keeping everyone on the island content is difficult. These range from peasant uprisings to supply-chain malfunctions.
Or at least that’s the theory – there’s the usual bunch of unforeseen obstacles standing in your way. If you're looking for a game that'll stimulate an older child/teen's grey matter without directly being about puzzles, Tropico 4 would be a great choice - it's certainly not a game you can just coast through without thinking.How people think the London Olympics will look likeįrom your island’s humble beginning with derelict slums and sweatshop industry, you grab your island by the scruff of its neck and throw it in the direction of ‘economic powerhouse’. The topics it deals with are similarly complex, and balancing incoming and outgoings, managing trade, and keeping the populace happy requires a lot of patience and thought. With a lot of menus to navigate, and a reasonable amount of reading required, this certainly isn't a game younger children will be able to cope with. As is often the way, one decision will please one faction but upset another (for example, build a church and you'll please the religious faction, but may upset the less religious types) - all you can do is try to keep most of them on side, lest you have to quell an uprising. It's a game of planning and strategy as you grow your economy by building farms and gathering resources, before expanding your island, and building houses, hospitals, factories and museums, whilst attempting the impossible task of trying to keep everyone happy. Slow paced and thoughtful, Tropico 4 isn't a game that's going to appeal to fans of shooters and explosions.
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