![]() ![]() Tropico is a huge juggling act wherein you try and keep the entire world happy while stuffing your personal accounts with fair or ill gotten gains. Maybe they’ll start to think they can do things better and start a coup throwing you into a bitter civil war against the very people you’ve been raising to protect you. Annoy one enough, and they’ll send a hitman over in an attempt to do you in.Ī strong army will protect you from these threats, as well as any rebel uprising the little people might organise should you neglect them enough, but pumping up your armed forces has its own peril. You could ignore them, of course, but a drop in funds won’t always be your only punishment. If they decide you need to start exporting cigars and tobacco, you best stop building that hospital and do as you’re told. If they slate the Chinese, you best side with them and take a hit in Eastern relations. ![]() Kowtowing to the higher powers might provide you with greater funds to spend on your islands, but it also means being subservant to their every whim. Your island doesn’t have to be totally self sufficient you’ll receive foreign aid from the USSR and the USA providing you don’t annoy them too much. Of course, this means running the risk of pissing away vital funds. Not producing enough to feed the masses? Allow the markets to import food from outside your shores. Producing more than you need? Export if for cash. Fishing wharfs and markets can add to that and create jobs. Build them farms and ranches so that they might eat, that’s a basic. So you’re now the President of a united realm of tropical islands, and if you don’t do a half-decent job at running the place, people will starve, revolt and string you up in the town square.Īs such, it’s a good idea to pretend to care about the little people, if only to try to dissuade their subconscious desire to kill you in a barbaric fashion. You, a random power-hungry passerby, have decided that it’s probably in everyone’s best interest if you were in charge of everything, and everyone around you is too busy being a brow-beaten peasant to take issue. But! I’m going to shift the cliché – in this story we break out the ugly duckling morale. I’m good at being militantly indifferent I’m hard at work making a career out of it. Throw in some Sim City comparisons despite the titles being decades apart then phone in the rest of the review, let the game collect dust and move on to something I might just care about. Make a few clichéd jokes about illusions I don’t have about world domination then talk about how the closest I’ll ever get to that is through Tropico 4. Say goodbye to large chunks of your time. "Remember how back when you first got your PC and you played Sim City for hours on end without really understanding why? Welcome to the 2011 version of that phenomenon. ![]()
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