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Imserba Webstore - Tropico 3
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List Price: $39.99
Our Price: $35.88
Your Save: $ 4.11 ( 10% )
Availability: N/A
Manufacturer: Kalypso Media
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Amazon Maximum Age: 20
Amazon Minimum Age: 144
Batteries Included: 0
Binding: DVD-ROM
Brand: Kalypso Media
EAN: 0710425317200
ESRB Age Rating: Teen
Feature: A Latin music soundtrack, as well as a variety of online-functions such as high scores or visiting islands belonging to other players.
Format: DVD-ROM
Label: Kalypso Media
Manufacturer: Kalypso Media
Model: KA1-31720
Platform: Windows Vista
Publisher: Kalypso Media
Release Date: 2009-10-20
Studio: Kalypso Media
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Features
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A Latin music soundtrack, as well as a variety of online-functions such as high scores or visiting islands belonging to other players.
Comprehensive campaign with 15 different missions, and mission generator for random map creation.
A variety of business sectors to dabble in, including: Tourism, petroleum, mining, agriculture, etc.
A timeline editor allowing you to create your own fictive historical events or enter real ones and avatar functionality allowing players to wander the island as El Presidente and change the course of play.
Interactive functionality including, political speeches, edicts and "other" means of influence, as well as a wide range of editing and modification functions.
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Editorial Reviews:
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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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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Dissapointed
Comment:
I expected more than I experienced from the makers of this game,
Pros....... I liked the Avatar that you can customize
Graphics were nice
Game play options/ choices are nice
Cons.... Game is super slow, even when you select the fastest play speed, frankly it left
me bored to the point of discust.
Video control is the game spoiler, you have to constantly fight to keep your
camera view where you want it, and that is a BIG distration from the gameplay.
Also the game people avatars are so small, that it does not entertain, and the
game building sequences are not entertaining.
Conclusion... The game designers forgot , as they usually do, that the game buyer wants to
be entertained !!!!!!
I do not recommend purchasing this game.... matter of fact the most "FUN" that I
had was reading the ONLINE strategy guide and booklet that came with the game CD.
My old games such as Lords of the Realm and Sid Meier's Pirates give me more
entertainment than Tropico 3 ever has.
Customer Rating:
Summary: A great follow up for the original
Comment: When tropico came out years ago i found the concept rather interesting. It took aspects of city builders and made them unique enough to be its own game.
Tropico 3 is an excellent follow up. The game is absolutely beautiful, i love to just watch everyone walk around. I like the scenarios, which are rather unique from each other, and the gameplay flows enough to be relaxing but not boring.
It does have a couple items I thought it could improve upon. The in game stats in the first game was easier to navigate and find what i want. I find the current one just a tad too combursome. The garages just feel huge compared to the rest of the buildings, and a random island generator would be really enhance the game.
Overall a great game and quite enjoyable!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Pretty fun!
Comment: This game is sure to be a hit for fans of Tropico 1.
In fact, it's not too different from Tropico 1. Many of the edicts and personality traits are the same, although there are some new ones. Many of the buildings are the same as well.
The updated graphics are nice, and the geography is much more realistic. The citizens many now drive cars, and your character can be active in fighting rebels, giving speeches, visiting clinics, etc.
Many of the scenarios in the campaign are pretty easy overall, and I don't have to commit election fraud as I did in Tropico 1.
Overall, I'd certainly recommend this game, although I wish it had more buildings or features to distinguish it from it's predecessor.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Play the original instead.
Comment: I only played the demo and about an hour was enough to realize that this game is worse than the original. There are things that the first one got right, and that is great music, funny satire, and good game play. The decent things about the Haemimont Games version are all shamelessly ripped off from Tropico 1. The descriptions could have been done by a third grader, I mean seriously, no imagination. The only thing that is a slight improvement is the graphics, but everything looks the same, no real creative changes except for an annoying menu and unbearable announcer. Do not waste your time with this game. At least the original Tropico had a latin style that was authentic and not insulting. This game doesn't get it right and is offensive and shamelessly targets the latino demographic without the fun... Skip this one and play the original, which has much better music also.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great Game
Comment: 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.
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