Tropico 3 | 
| From: Kalypso Media
List Price: $39.99
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Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 1025
Format: DVD-ROM
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP
Genre: strategy_games
ESRB: Teen
Media: DVD-ROM
Edition: Standard
Age: 12 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows Vista
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.3 x 0.8
MPN: TK2 31720
Model: KA1-31720
UPC: 710425317200
EAN: 0710425317200
ASIN: B002MCG8MI
Release Date: October 20, 2009
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | 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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Product Description
Tropico 3 goes back to the roots of the hit strategy series closely following the original Tropico story-line. The time is yesterday and the Cold War is in full swing. Through means devious and dubious you have seized power in the Caribbean island country of Tropico, where you now rule as the all-powerful "El Presidente". You decide whether you want to use your army to secure your power base in the best traditions of corrupt, unscrupulous tyrants everywhere or lead your people to prosperity in your role as generous elder statesman. No matter whether you turn Tropico into a vacation paradise, a police state or a modern industrial nation -- you will always have to defend your actions before your people! Wander through Tropico as El Presidente in order to intimidate political opponents, hold populist speeches or just to enjoy your country's own Caribbean flair. Don't forget to keep a sharp eye on the dangers and side-effects of your absolute power! Danger lurks on every corner, be it militant revolutionaries bent on installing a communist junta, or the machinations of the superpowers USA and the Soviet Union, both of whom would like to see a more amenable ruler in strategically important Tropico! A wide range of editing and modification functions Mission generator for random map creation The cinematic, highly detailed graphics perfectly reflect A variety of online-functions such as high scores or visiting islands belonging to other players Latin music soundtrack
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 Fun, but short lived November 22, 2009
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 a 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 scoreboard. 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.
* 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.
So, there is a lot to like here (I never told you of her charms...) but the negatives kind of make it into a "meh" experience. If you see this game in the bargain bin, you can't go wrong, but as an interesting long term strategy game it falls short.
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.
nice November 20, 2009
Michael J. Hudson
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I enjoy this game alot in the begining. I won several of the easier seniarios. But it got repetive really fast.
 Tropico 3 November 17, 2009
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!!! October 30, 2009
The Ultimate Warrior Jr. (CA)
11 out of 15 found this review helpful
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!
Same as before October 24, 2009
Shareallicu
1 out of 8 found this review helpful
I was hoping for some newness in Tropico 3: some improvements... I only played the demo but it was pretty much the same as the first ones with better graphics. If graphics mean a lot to you, you may want it. The avatar is annoying, and they take forever to build anything. The AI is not as smart, since it takes the builders a lot longer to even notice when a building needs to be built.
But I like the new ability to design a simple speech when you run for office. I wanted MORE game play upgrades even if it means less graphics. Graphics are not that important to me. I rate it OK, and very disappointing because its the same as the other ones.
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