Tropico 3 Gold Edition

Tropico 3 is one of those games that fits into a niche and does it perfectly. Running your own banana republic and running it to a budget while keeping both your people and foreign allies happy is a tricky but pleasing challenge. The campaign missions focus on different aspects of the game but usually fall into economy or military scenarios, all with a different island and therefore different amounts of usable space and resources. The game has the full and complete set of features that you'd expect from any RTS/city-builder game and a surprisingly elaborate but functional and easy-to-learn political system. This game has depth. The only downside to the Tropico IP is that all the games in the series are pretty much the same. The fact it's got to the 4th in the series recently is testament to how well this works and actually this works in your favour when buying Tropico 3 Gold for a low, low, price because you're actually getting essentially the same game as you get with Tropico 4 but much cheaper. You really owe it to yourself to try this game out if you're at all interested in the genre and though the same could be said for Tropico 1, I still think you'd do yourself a better favour buying Tropico 3.

Never played any of the previous games but i'm really loving tropico 3. If you have never played these games before the tutorial is really thorough, **Warning: if you have dual screens it will crash the game before it has even loaded. Disable your non-primary screen and the game will run really well!**

Tropico 3 is a city-building sim with loads of character. You can establish a benevolent rule over a beautiful tropical paradise or smash all opposition in your slums with an iron fist. The game looks incredibly good and the interface is a model for how it should be done. I should also mention the "radio" and music in Tropico 3. The music is absolutely outstanding - I did not really care for salsa - until I played Tropico 3. I found the DJs and announcers to add a lot of fun but they drive some players crazy. There are some annoying flaws (that were not fixed in Tropico 3 either) - the traffic system is playable even in large cities once you know what you are doing, but it could sure use some tweaking/public transit options. More aggravating is the tourism aspect of your economy, which operates according to mysterious rules that diminish the effectiveness of your most-carefully designed tourist destinations. Still, the game is a great fun and it is easy as pie to pick up a saved game a play for a bit - an advantage for those with busy schedules.

Note: I could not get the game to run after installation. Noticed that I need to disable the second monitor in order to launch the game. Just have to push Win+P to set PC-only before running the game. I can re-enable the second monitor afterwards. Tropico 3 is my first game of the series. After few days of playing it's an addicting one. Essentially Tropico is Sim City on steroids, and by that I mean the game is the steroid bouncer who's always keen to make your life more difficult than it should be. Few absolutely fantastic in your face moments I've had: – It's quite early in the game, island is growing, but there are few rebels. I keep on focusing building a happier, better island instead of an army. Alas, 6 rebels start a revolution and burn down a farm. Now, I'm facing starvation and economic collapse. Great! – Later, I'm back on track, making big bucks. Start a construction spree that leaves me 5k in debt (you can go 10k with no issues). I have plenty of exports waiting, no biggie...wait...what's that? A hurricane! Suddenly I'm missing few critical buildings, over 10 k in debt...Now where's that freighter?!? – On another island, I run a large economy with around 200k money. Go on another construction spree with 20k to spare. Notice that money is running out quite fast, well, lots of expenses. Ah, yes there's the freighter, but it leaves empty as the dock isn't manned. Wait, what?!? Overheated economy! Raise dock salaries, time for industry salary check. Run into 40k debt before next boat. Back on black! Then...people start to starve! Why? Salary raises caused fisheries and food farms to lose workers...Can I buy immigrants somewhere? Except commies complain about unemployment and nationalists about immigrants...Great! Not a full 5/5 game as game's missing some tools to handle e.g. heavy traffic (public transit, 1-way streets, etc..). I also haven't figured out how to check efficiency of construction or teamster offices. Other than those, a great game!