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The Never Lasting

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 16
Date: June 09, 2001
Author: Amazon User

You think and it also seem's like it will be a great game, but not. I have not seen such a bad game since Pokemon. You a president in a island which you build stuff. The game is very slow and you can only be in office for a certain time. I finished the game in 45min. I regret buying the game

Looks cool..

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 10
Date: April 21, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I first saw this game in PC Gaming last August (?). The first thing out of my mouth was "Hey.. I gotta get that." This game looks as though it really is what most claim- SimCity meets Fidel Castro. The only thing I want to know is- when do I get MY copy?? (It's previous release date was 4/18/01. I have had a copy on pre-order since March. The new release date of 4/26/01 just SLIGHTLY annoyed me..)

Great Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: July 08, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is a great game for people who like to be in control of other people...people who like this game and like controlling people would like the Sims too. Tropico is really fun in many ways...maybe it had a couple flaws...but otherwise it was a must buy.

Become El Presidente

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: May 21, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Tropico is an excellent simulation game! This game allows you to build a backward tropical island of 35 people into a thriving nation of 300+ people. The AI is the best that I've ever encountered. The detail is excellent! You can see what each of the island inhabitants is thinking at any time.

Addicting

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: October 14, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Extreamly Addictive Game that made my play for hours and hours after I layed my eyes on it. Though, it becomes dull afterwords, but is a good addiction if you have no life.

Poor timing and herky jerky graphics destroy good concept

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 14
Date: May 14, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Sounds Kewl does it not, rule your own island ala Fidel, Baby Doc etc??? Unfortunately this game is just like any other sim game in that after you play it once or twice it gets pretty BORING.

I have to agree this game should not be purchased if you have a slow computer. Even if you have a fast or medium speed computer it still runs herky jerky. The game's timing stinks. In one game it took me 50 years to build an airport. YAWN its 2006 people here is your airport.

Then there is the stupid political side of the game, no Grenada scenario here folks...throw the US a bone and they leave you alone, my experience was the Soviets could care less. But do I really expect them to do anything in 1998, 2003 or 2008?

Then there is all the left wing economic [stuff], NOW WONDER COMMUNISM AND SOCIALISM FAILED. How can you manage an economy with no free market??

I like the concept. The execution failed miserably and unless you are a SIM nut I would avoid this game.

dont buy this game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 15
Date: May 13, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Why? because apparently the makers of this game were in a rush to make it to the top sales chart to get their $$$ as soon as possible. If they worked on it a bit more, the game woulda rocked. Too bad money got to their heads. Here are my reasons why this game is terrible:

The workers/builders are too stupid

It takes 20 years for 50 workers to finish building an airport(these guys waste 15 of the 20 years digging grounds)

Time moves too fast, people move too slow

Playing on a big island is terrible. You gotta watch these slow... move around because their are no vehicles(takes one person 3 months to walk at a distance of 2 miles)

People are always unhappy

... always bug you

There are many more!!!!!!!!!!

Just don't buy this game, im serious... its not worth your money

Boring

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: January 18, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is really boring. Nothing really happens. You build housing, businesses and roads. Then nothing! Oh wait, you have to do a budget. I'll pass

avoid this

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: January 29, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I feel I should post how much I hated this piece of junk here, since the other reviews seem to give the impression that it's a fantastic game and everybody will love it. I couldn't stand it and took it back a couple of days later. All the positive reviews below positively puzzle me, since engaged in a conversation about this game in the local EB, everybody else declared they had hated it too. So who's writing those reviews?

The thing is too slow! It takes about 50 years to build a school. And the economics of the game don't make sense either -- you charge nothing for rent and pay everybody beaucoup bucks, and still everybody moves off your island and the birth rate decreases.

Also, this game is not as funny as the programmers obviously believe. I agree with the reviewer below who said that the manual is much funnier than the actual game.

Lastly, the graphics of the game are overcomplex, meaning that the game will be extremely fussy on most setups. This wouldn't be such a problem, but Tropico either has no tech support line, or they don't answer what they say is the support line, or they've done a fantastic job with hiding the contact information of the real tech support line. In other words, after a couple of days of trying, I couldn't get any help.

Could have been more, and sends a bad message

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: June 23, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is a great game as far as sim games go. You build your city and try to prosper. That's pretty straight forward, and pretty much is what this game is reduced to. There is a huge underlying foundation to this, with each citizen of the island having a unique personality with hopes, desires and political agendas. However, they don't really do much that would affect the game as a whole. The elections are a nice use of this, but I feel that the designers could have done more to show off what I think was the coolest aspect of their game.

The fact that there is no multiplayer is also somewhat irksome. I could definately see two rival nations sharing an island and competing for resources. This would also have allowed the Cold War scenario to have a more direct effect on the game.

Finally there is something that no one has mentioned as far as I know, and this is the stereotypes that this game works so hard to propagate. It tells us, from the advisor's accent, to the music, to the people's thoughts and the rundown brick interface, that the people of the caribbean are naturally less intelligent, honest, hardworking, and independent than us. It tells us that a dictatorship is the natural government of such people and portrays an Aunt Jemima/ Tio Pepe view of Latinos in general. For shame.

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