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Better than the original Tropico!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 20 / 23
Date: December 02, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I had a lot of fun playing the original Tropico, but I found Tropico 2 to be a LOT more fun to play! Maybe it's because I started playing it around the same time Pirates of the Carribean came out (yo-ho!), so I was in a pirate-y mood.

The controls are basically the same as in the original, as are the graphics. The difference is, that in this game you are playing a pirate island instead of a dictator on a regular caribbean island. Your job is to keep your pirates happy, who cares about the minions who work on the island! You have to make sure there's enough places for them to drink, gamble, wench, and feast in order to keep them happy! One more annoying feature is that each pirate wants his own house. This isn't so bad when you only have a few pirates - but when you get a HUGE amount of pirates, those houses take up a lot of space!

One of my favorite new features in Tropico 2 is the pirate ships! You have your shipyard build a ship, then you send your pirates out looting. I wish there was more control over the ships when they are actually looting - but oh well. As it is now, you send it out and it does its thing while you continue to manage the island. It does keep a log of what's going on for you to look at - but you basically have zero control once it leaves the dock. Not a big deal, I just think if they did an expansion that would be a nice addition.

The game itself ran well on my machine, I never had crashing problems. It's a great game, well worth the price!! I HIGHLY recommend it!

If you liked Tropico I RUN Don't walk to buy this one

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 13
Date: May 25, 2004
Author: Amazon User

How can anyone like Tropico I over Tropico II? Well in Tropico I you managed EVERY aspect of your citizens' lives. Each of them needed a house(Tenements would not do the job at higher difficulty levels) a job, access to religious facilities, healthcare, entertainment, liberty, safety,food etc. etc. Problem was the economy did not expand properly. Your people demand ever increasing wages but your economy cannot be ever increasing. At higher difficulty levels you have to pay your people the maximum wage rate after like 50-100 years to keep them in line. In fact the Caribbean region wage increase is pure garbage. Problem becomes when you have a limited amount of Freight ships coming in and tourist, it just gets boring too fast. The most idiotic aspect is when you hire a foreign worker and they come in and JOIN A REBELLION AGAINST YOU! Or they emigrate off the island. Demographically it is a disaster because people marry have children they grow up and need jobs as well and need housing etc... It is not well controlled and just too much micromanagement.

Why is Tropico II better? Nobody EVER asks for a wage increase period. Half your population does not get paid(capitves work 4 free hehe...) No babies, no families, just pure fun.

Here is a tip: Captive rebellion and escape are not really serious problems. WHY? Because you can "press gang"( turn into a pirate) all unskilled captives. Yep even the ones that are escaping... Furthermore, if you have pirates that are unhappy you can ALMOST ALWAYS prevent a coup by upsetting the balance of power- just create more pirates. All pirates that are brought into life by virtues of "press gang" start out as super happy. That is a temporary measure of course but sometimes you need more time.

Another tip, get UPSCALE eastblishments ASAP because your captains will quickly become enraged with anything less. And when they are enraged they always kill somebody because they cant lose a dueling match. They can also "kill" a "skeleton" which makes no sense but the game still allows it.

The game's production/distribution is slightly different. There are no teamsters, each building that takes an input has a hauler sometimes 2(dock) which creates problems if there is more than one imput. For example. I had a case where I had a papaya farm with an output of 750 and a bakery low on papayas. Certainly the game's code needs to be improved to allow the delivery of the most amount of supplies. There is alot more to this game but this is a review not a strategy guide afterall.

The game is MUCH superior to Tropico I although the passion subsides rather quickly...

ARRR...don't be missin' the fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 9
Date: June 19, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is a whale of a good time! If you like games such as Stronghold, Age of Empires, Age of Mythology, etc., you will enjoy this little treasure.

History mixes with fiction to make a splashing good time for both landlubbers and pirate royality alike.
Enjoy!

This is so fun, it's criminal! Oh, yeah, that's the point..

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: November 02, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I absolutely love this game. It's pure hedonistic, escapist fun with all of the non-pc components to make a person feel just a little -deliciously- wicked while playing it. I was impressed by the obvious research and effort the creators put into the game. As a bit of a pirate history enthusiast, it's great to vicariously loot, plunder, wench, booze it up, and fight right here in the comfort of home! Some of the gameplay might be overly simple for serious gamers, but I like to play for fun only and this fits the ticket- nothing too mindbending. It's a little thrill every time one of my ships sets sail. Also...as a female I can say I didn't find the wenches offensive at all. Again, it's historically accurate. As a part-time parent, I'd rate it definately PG-13, but my stepkids love it too and realize that it's a game/story about pirates, not a lifestyle choice suggestion.

Tropico 2: based on demo

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 21
Date: April 15, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The demo was good, so i think i will buy the game. My neighbor has it and i think it is awesome!

awesome

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 8
Date: January 03, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I like how you get to create buildings and docks on an island i also like campaign mode!!!!!

SWEETTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!

awesome

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 9
Date: January 03, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I like how you get to create buildings and docks on an island i also like campaign mode!!!!!

SWEETTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!

Tropico2 could it be any more fun?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 18, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I had my reservations about Tropico2 after loving Tropico so much.
I was pleasantly suprised. The gameplay is just different enough from Tropico 1 to feel like a different game. Very fun to play and of course Daniel Indart's musical tracks are every bit as good as in Tropico1. These games have turned me onto a whole new genre of music. You'll find yourself playing just to enjoy the great tunes.
Two thumbs up, mainly because I only have two thumbs. :)

Another hit from the makers of Tropico and Stronghold

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 81 / 84
Date: May 02, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I have been playing Tropico 2 for two days now and find it very enjoyable. It is another game that you'll spend many happy hours playing, staying up well past 3am in the morning. The other reviews I have read so far are fair and right on the money
though.

Summary: Wonderful game! BUT! This game contains some possibly distasteful content as you can expect from a game about Pirates, so if you are a parent or someone of a more sensitive disposition, you might want to demo this or watch a friend play it before you decide to buy.

Some Praise:

1. Do you know how many games I've bought that don't even work out of the box or crash to desktop every five minutes? Well, don't worry about that here. GODgames and their associates are _wonderful_ in releasing games that are so refeshingly free of game-crashing bugs that it can spoil a gamer. I am yet to have Tropico 2 crash to desktop or even have a fatal bug of any kind. I am having some sort of problem with my cursor but it seems to be a problem with my video card (compatibility issue) but that's about it.

2. Wenches! I mean, women! I mean, you can now play and hire female characters. My girlfriend was glad to see this. I know there were probably all of three female pirates in all the 17th century, but after Stronghold (which didn't even have females voicing the females), its nice to have women around other than in the wenching houses. Arg.

3. All in all, the game is very enjoyable. The parts all fit together seemlessly. The engine is time proven and works well, it does what its advertised to do.

Some Criticisms:

1. The game really should have been rated "Mature" instead of Teen. There are some rather adult content in the game in the suggestive area. Its rather disturbing to click on a 'wench' at work in her 'place of business' and hear her plead and cry out "let me go!". The comments they think in their head are often adult and somewhat disturbing, although they tried to make them humorous. Not a game to play if you are a sensitive person who finds things that Pirates may or may not do offensive.

2. The music is not as good as Tropico 1. Then again, the music in Tropico 1 was award winning and I still listen to the soundtrack CD in my car to this day. Pirate Cove's music is functional and passible, and there's at least one tune that I enjoy, but mostly it just doesn't seem to catch the 'pirate' theme for me. Mostly its a sort of calypso/spiritual backbeat with french or spanish lyrics. I haven't even heard one hornpipe! There was an ancient game called "Colonization" by Sid Meyer set in the same time period. Although incredibly dated by our standards, the midi music in it was much more of what I was expecting in Tropico 2, not some strange dirges that almost stray into Spring Break nightclub.

3. Lastly, just a personal quibble: I would have loved to be able to control my ships in battle. As it is, you play the part of Admiral Doenetz, sending your U-boats out to prey on merchant shipping, and all you get to do is tell them what to do, where to go, then sit on pins and needles hoping they come back alive. (Sorry, played too many WW2 games! But hey, you can even 'wolfpack' your ships in Tropico 2, if you send more than 1 to a sector, they'll help each other in battle.) I would have liked to have had some sort of battle mode where you could actually direct and lead your ships in battle (ala 'Ancient Art of War at Sea' or those simular naval wargames).

4. In 'sandbox' mode, your ships don't seem to find prey as often as they do in the Campaign mode. This can really make an 'easy' game in sandbox much harder than an easy game in Campaign (where more encounters are probably scripted).

If the demo is anything to go by...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 20 / 23
Date: February 23, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is fun.

I enjoyed the original Tropico and the expansion. This game is simpler, easier to get into, though the Demo does not let you know everything you will be able to do in the full game.

It's not suitable for younger kids, however, as the theme is more Piratey than Pirates of the Carribean (though that used to be a bit more risque, itself). Wenching and lynching are part of the game, and pirates like anarchy, which is provided by sordid amusements. Very appropriate for the time period and topic, but it still limits the kids who ought to be playing it.

Try the Demo (warning it's 130 megabytes so no dial-up), it's the best way to find out if you agree with me.

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