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Training for serious planning with a dose of humor.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 03, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I highly recommend this game. The mix of planning for a city/country with the political intrigue with its high dose of humor make this a fabulous game. In addition you must juggle the issues of sustainability, economic growth, budgeting, recreation and education. Most of these are in SimCity, however Tropico is much more fun than the overly slick and cold format of SimCity.

Welcome, Presidente!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 04, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The game is awesome - I have spent many afternoons of free time, dictating to my loyal, and sometimes not so loyal, tropican subjects. There are two issues I have with the game, one is that once your island starts to get developed, with a higher population, and lots of buildings and things going on, there is an annoying lag between clicks - but it is not like you need your toothbrush and jammies, just a delay. My other issue with the game is that there never seem to be enough construction offices to get a job done - I expect that this has more to do with the way I play the game than the AI. The sound track is a kick, but makes my wife crave chips and salsa. Mmmmm salsa... be right back. Over all - this is a great strategy / sim game, and I highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys the genera. After all, who doesn't want to the supreme ruler of their own tropical paradise?

Slow like a snail

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: March 30, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I hoped to have as much fun with this product as my friends who play it on Windows. Instead I was had, bigt time. It is soooo slow I can prepare dinner while it loads. Forget about enjoying the game, instead you will snooze after each click. When I checked the programer's website their solution was to run it on OS 9. You'd think that if they sell a product for OS X they would make sure it runs properly on that platform. It was a waste of my time and money.

Very Poor Conversion to the Mac

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: March 10, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I would not advise anyone with a Mac to buy this game! The game itself is excellent, unfortunately someone was more interested in rushing it to the Mac market than actually testing it to see if the conversion worked.

It doesn't.

It repeatedly crashes my system to the point of being unplayable, even with most of the visual detail removed, playing on the slowest settings, and my dedicating most of my RAM to the game. If I can't play this game on a G4 with 512 RAM and a top of the line video card, I'm guessing no one else can either.

poorly designed

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 28, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I've played Tropico on the PC, and it's a great game. The MacSoft version, however, is really unstable, crashes constantly, and offers a minimum of support for these problems. I run OS X, and at first I couldn't even run the game, which the folks at MacSoft say just happens and I should run the OS 8 or 9 version, which is slow, stops randomly, and crashes as well. The patch provided by MacSoft makes the OS X game load, but still crash at the first opportunity. The folks at MacSoft took a fun game, and made it difficult and unpleasant to play. Either play the game on a PC, try something else (like Civilization 3) or wait a few months in the hope that the folks at MacSoft might offer better patches or support.

Addicting and lots of fun!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: September 04, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I really, really enjoy playing this game. Especially designing my own scenarios. The graphics are great and the music is very catchy as well (I found myself humming it in the shower!). The game seems a bit daunting at first in its detail, but you quickly get the hang of it. My one beef is that when deep into a game, it starts to run sluggish on my Mac.

Great if you like sim games

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: July 04, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is outstanding if you like sim games. Graphics, music, etc. are all excellent. The reason why I only played it for a few hours is because I just don't enjoy all of the detail I need to attend to in the game. If you are the type who loves building model railroad environments with trees, stores, houses, etc, this will be right up your alley. I couldn't care less about planting shrubs or building tobacco plantations on this island. I grew so tired of it that I was hoping for a peasant uprising just to get some excitement going. Eventually, once the novelty of the premise wore off, I deleted it from my hard drive for good. Not my cup of tea. Like the SIms game (where you even have to have the characters empty their bladders) it is just boring to be responsible for so much inconsequential detail.

Good Game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: April 04, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I enjoy playing this game. You really need a good video card in the later parts of a game to keep the great graphics.

Doesn't work on Mac OS X 10.1.x (Patch fixes biggest problem)

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 8 / 12
Date: November 29, 2001
Author: Amazon User

A patch is out that fixes the launching problem. Still occasionally crashes in the edicts (save before issuing edicts). This game seems to be based on Railroad Tycoon II, at least the graphics of the game and its GUI. [I would love to play this game, but Tropico crashes when trying to play video on launch in either the Classic or Carbon versions. I haven't booted into OS 9 in months, and have played other recent games (Age of Empires II Gold and The Sims: House Party) without too many problems. If you are running only OS X 10.1.x then the game won't start. I believe MacSoft is working on a patch. Since I have other processes running in the background, even when I'm playing games, booting into OS 9 is not the solution for me.]

This is possibly one of the best strategy games ever!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: November 12, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Tropico is a great strategy game because of the different people you interact with. Also you can customize the landscape and difficulty. I like it because it is like a real government on an impoverished island. There are many political factions in the game that you must please to stay in office. If you choose not to please these factions you can be certain that rebellions will occur. Although putting down rebellions is fun too. Overall this game is really fun if you like real life strategy games, because of the many things that are possible in the game and the diverse people.

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