Tropico 4 sees you return as El Presidente, the tyrannical (or benevolent) dictator of the island paradise of Tropico. The world is changing and Tropico is moving with the times – geographical powers rise and fall and the world market is dominated by new players with new demands and offers — and you, as El Presidente, face a whole new set of challenges. If you are to triumph over your naysayers you will need to gain as much support from your people as possible. Your decisions will shape the future of your nation, and more importantly, the size of your Swiss bank account.Tropico 4 features all new missions across new maps and includes exciting and fun new features to keep the action fresh and challenging. You can even elect ministers into power to help get your more controversial decisions passed through the government. But remember to keep your friends close and your enemies closer as everyone has an agenda.
Tropico 4 also brings social interaction with the addition of Facebook and Twitter integration. Post comments on Twitter direct from the game and have updates go out when you complete missions or unlock new achievements. You can even take screenshots of your island and post them on your Tropico 4 Facebook page and compare your interactive Dictator ranking on the online leaderboards. Every little bit helps when you are bringing your island into the 21st Century.
Life in a Cold War banana republic probably wasn’t as much fun in the real world as it is in Tropico 3. Fortunately, this little bit of historical revisionism is one of the few complaints you can make about this city builder. Haemimont Games has nicely resurrected the Castro-esque spoof of the first Tropico, dishing out a sunny city builder with personality and politics. Being able to play a tanned tyrant instead of the usual nameless bureaucrat makes the gameplay as potent as a fine Cohiba cigar. It also gives it a life beyond the nuts-and-bolts economics that turn too many entries in this genre into exercises in city planning and spreadsheets.
Perhaps the only real barrier to enjoying all of this fascist fun in the sun is a relatively steep learning curve that isn’t flattened at all by the tutorial. Because Tropico 3 is more of a remake of PopTop Software’s original than a sequel to the rather odd second Tropico game that moved the setting to a fantasy pirate island, the developers seem to have gone in with the belief that players already know what to do. So, the abbreviated tutorial mission doesn’t touch on many of the game’s core concepts and, instead, spends more time explaining worthless instructions, such as swiveling the camera, than dealing with island economics. This presents a few problems for those without previous Tropico experience–and even for veterans of other city-building sims–because the game adds a political overlay to the standard build houses/create jobs/make money formula common to the genre. Here, you not only construct the typical roads, houses, apartments, farms, factories, churches, and the like, but you also role-play a stereotypical Latin American dictator during the height of the Cold War. Every game begins with you either creating your own despot or picking from a list of history’s finest leaders, which includes Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, and even Eva Peron.
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