Comments for page "Tropico (PC) Review"

Presidente, you are making quite a few enemies.

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:59:32 +0000

The hardware graphics were always bonked. It didn't work on a 32bit system with a Radeon 9500 pro either, and that's much older than my 9700mgt in both structure and capability. It is even made by a different company. The Geforce 7800 OC wasn't any better. I think that the game wasn't programmed with these two hardware companies in mind when it was made in 2001.

The introduction is completely misleading. Not only are there no cars, but Presidente is some sort of ethereal gas that floats through his door into his office. Then when you exit the game you go into your closet.

The game seems to like to sap the CPU, guess because of all the things it has to keep track of. It is only single core though, so if you are on Vista and want to use all your CPU available, you can set the affinity to both CPUs under the process manager. Seems to work a little better, and haven't noticed anything wrong.

Might I add, you are looking quite powerful today Presidente!

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 05:50:14 +0000

Yeah, I liked to build the farms on the green sections. Guess I was doing it wrong. I usually run out of money or have a military faction kick me out of office.

Maybe since you are running the game on a 64-bit computer, the hardware option doesn't work.

This game moves fast enough for me. Roller Coaster Tycoon is WAAAAY too slow. Sims 1 was slow, Sims 2 was decent, can't comment on Sims 3.

Tropico isn't a casual game. There are a lot of complexities like you mentioned. I don't like managing the factions. I think they force one of them to hate you all the time. It's like me playing Sim Isle, the game is too difficult for me to make money.

Building the airport is really an annoying task. My workers could never build it fast enough to for the escape the island mission.

The music is really good. The main theme is catchy and the background music does really fit.