Review Tropico 3 
Buy Low Price From Here Now Engage in a tropical power trip! Become the dictator of a remote island during the Cold War. Charm, persuade, intimidate, oppress, or cheat your people to stay in power! Are you a kind and generous leader? A corrupt and ruthless tyrant ruling with an iron fist? Turn your island into a tourist paradise or an industrial power. Make promises to the electorate or slander political adversaries to get the crucial votes for the upcoming elections. Send your avatar to congratulate the people, visit the island of another player, or just sun-bathe on the Caribbean beach. Play the Cold War superpowers against each other to your maximum advantage. Tropico 3 offers a tongue-in-cheek, light-hearted take on real world issues like third world politics, corruption and totalitarian regimes. Are you ready to rule your own banana republic? If you answered yes, then Tropico 3 is the game for you. Features: * A Comprehensive campaign with 15 new missions * Multiple ways to make money including Commerce, Industry, Mining, Agriculture etc. * A timeline editor to create fictional events or real ones * Avatar function lets you travel the Island as El Presidente - Each avatar is a customizable character that the player creates and controls - Choose gender and customize face, hairstyle, facial hair, hat, clothing, and additional accessories * Speeches, edicts and many ways to gain influence * A wide range of editing and moderation functions * Mission generator for random map creation, including unlimited Pesos, etc. * The Cinematic highly detailed Graphics simulate the actual caribbean * Visit islands controlled by other players * Online scoring against other players
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- EL PRESIDENTE IS BACK! Rule as all-powerful, El Presidente as you decide whether to turn your tropical island into a vacation paradise, a prosperous industrial nation or JAIL the masses in your Banana Republic
- Features a comprehensive campaign mode with 15 unique and challenging missions. Players can now explore a gorgeous, 3D world. Tropico 3 is the latest sequel to the critically acclaimed, award-winning strategy/sim classics Tropico and Tropico 2.
- You rule your Caribbean island as El Presidente intimidating political opponents, giving populist speeches and enjoying the Island flair!
- A timeline editor, online functionality and sensational Latin soundtrack take Tropico 3 to the next level of fun
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"Great Game" 2009-11-25
By Robert Carmody (Reno)
I have played the previous versions of the game and am happy to see that some of the things I did not like are gone and some of the things I love about the game were kept in.
Gone from previous versions was the shoveling of dirt paths- in its place is an auto-road tool. A little on the fence about whether it would have been better to have created an employment center just for laying down road- but what used to wear me thin about other Tropico versions was listening to the shoveling of those roads.
I also like the fact you are still able to name characters individually in the game.
Graphics are so much better now that the improvement alone justifys the cost. I guess like a lot of folks for me Tropico is leisure time and a game you can go back to from time to time- but the poor graphics really over time made the game duller.
Anyway, if you liked the previous versions then you should love this one even more.
If you have not played before but have played SimCity then my guess is that this game will make up for you what SimCity has always lacked, basically deeper politics, the ability to take revenge on political or idealogical foes, the ability to actually control industrys other than just zoning them and watching retarded buildings come and go.
Just wait until you build a cannery and get the message that a rival group has planted a bomb in it for extortion purposes or when that homeless college kid leading the capitalist faction trys to run against you in a political campaign.
"Fun, but short lived" 2009-11-22
By Pecos Bill (Gaithersburg, MD United States)
I never played Tropico 1 or 2, but I do enjoy Evil Genius, Dungeon Keeper and Dwarf Fortress. I love games that let me build up an empire and repel attacks without being completely focused on combat all the time as in a standard RTS.
This game has a lot going for it. Think "Sim City" with the additional need to balance out political factions and put up with rebels. In Sim City, unhappy sims would simply leave. In Tropico 3, they're more likely to pick up a gun and try to overthrow you directly.
That said, the game has some faults that are making it into a pretty short lived affair. I've put in maybe 8 full sandbox rounds and I don't think I've got many more left in me.
The problems I had:
* It's too easy. It's not hard to go through the whole game without a single rebel. Factions are easily made happy and the extreme measures of dealing with rowdy individuals available to a tropical dictator seem to be unnecessary. Even if I configure a custom game with politics as unstable as it will let me and with "Rebel Yell" turned on, which makes my citizens even more likely to rebel, I still find rebellions aren't that big of a threat. They're even less of a threat than the occasional invading party in Dungeon Keeper.
* Combat is too forgiving. You don't really have any control during combat, which is fine, really, but the mechanics of it are still rather silly. When the rebels do finally show up, they will try to sabotage a structure and run away -- except before they do this, they will politely stand near it until literally your entire army has shown up. Consequently there's no reason to plan out how to distribute your guard towers to deal with threats quickly. Just build all your military stuff in one place and put a parking garage nearby. The rebels will wait until you show up, no matter how long it takes to get there.
* No "win" condition + no persistent scoreboard for the sandbox missions. Although the campaign has victory conditions, in "sandbox mode", which lets you play a randomly generated island, there's no victory condition. You rule for a set period of time and then the scoreboard comes up. The only measure of whether you did well or not is your score, and it doesn't save your score, so you have nothing to compare it too short of writing down your previous scores. So I love that there's an ability to play randomly generated maps (something I wish more games would do) but I think it could be implemented better.
* The foreign invasion is literally just a "game over" mechanism. I once played the game aiming to annoy the US because I wanted to see what it was like when the US invaded. Could I make a big enough military and fight them off? No. The scoreboard just pops up. You lose immediately. Rather anti-climatic.
But it's not all bad news.
The game is beautiful. 3-D, high degree of zoom-in and zoom-out, individually modeled citizens are roaming around and clicking on them shows you all sorts of useful information: what does this citizen think about their job, their health, crime, freedom, etc? What's really annoying them? What are their thoughts? (Thoughts are a good quick way to see if people are missing something in particular, e.g., "I wanted to go to church but couldn't" -- you may not have a church or you may need another one or you may just need more priests for the churches you already have.) The level of detail involved in managing your workers keeps you busy too. Tropico is not an equal opportunity employer. Some jobs only take men. Some only take women. Some take both. Sometimes you have to fire the men working on the farm to make room for unemployed women while the man go off to fill out the lumber camp. You have to deal with education because some jobs require high school or college to work there.
So there's plenty to play with in just running your town.
Basically I think this is a fantastic "sim tropical island" and if you want it for that, well, look no further. If you enjoy Sim City type games you'll definitely enjoy this. I was mainly disappointed over the lack of depth to the combat. Not that I was expecting a full on RTS but I definitely expected more than the rather weak and unstrategic rebel elements the game has.
I'm still holding out hope that they might change how combat and politics works with a patch. There needs to be more room to up the difficulty. It could be a great game with just a few minor adjustments.
As it stands, I rate it 4 stars for fun, because it is fun, but 3 stars overall because it just isn't something I got a lot of longevity out of.
"nice" 2009-11-20
By Michael J. Hudson
I enjoy this game alot in the begining. I won several of the easier seniarios. But it got repetive really fast.
"Tropico 3" 2009-11-17
By Dylan Gale
This game is awesome, The graphics are pristine and seamless contributing well to the overall game play. The dynamic lighting gives a real sense of beauty to each unique island. The economy based game is fun in the sense of the choices the player can make (i.e, Communist, Capitalist, alliances liberty level). Rebel attacks are fun and the custom avatar feature is a fun addition as well. I highly recommend this game to anyone who enjoys economy based RTS games.
"Very Fun Game That Has No DRM or Online Activation Requirememt!!!" 2009-10-30
By The Ultimate Warrior Jr. (CA)
One of the best things about this game is the fact that the developers still respect the gamers/fans - there is no DRM or Online Activation Requirement (Steam). All you need to do to start playing Tropico 3, is enter the key code included with the game (just like the good old days!) Way to go Kalypso... thank you for having faith in your fans!!!
As for the game itself...
10/10 - The developers stayed faithful to the original Tropico, basically combining the original & its expansion into one game... and then updating it. They have added great new features such as a customizable avatar & vehicles. These two features alone add an extra layer of depth, realism and playability missing from the original series.
I have also found the game to be almost bug free... this is very refreshing, since most new games seem to be released unfinished & still in Beta (Empire: Total War anyone?)
The only critique I would give this game is the need for more of everything - more customizable options for your avatar, more building types or design variations of current buildings, more edict options... more, more, more. If an expansion is made for this game, I think it should be: "Tropico 3: Mas Todo" - no major theme change is needed, just more of everything!
Tropico 3 is a very fun & addicting game!
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