Tropico 3

Games Maher November 22, 2018

Tropico 3

With Tropico 3 the series returns to its roots, playing once again during the time-period 1950-2000. Being more of a remake, than a real successor, the game once again gives the player full control over a banana republic in the Caribbean. To successfully live through his term in office, El Presidente needs to build a booming economy and keep his inhabitants happy as well as the USA and USSR.

Most of the city is built by the player himself including apartment buildings and streets. While some buildings need space to do their job (like farms), others need a road-connection or don’t function without electricity. The only buildings that pop up automatically are homes of poor people. To build up his city, the player of course needs money. Money is earned several different ways. Every year the player gets foreign aid from the superpowers. Several times a year a tanker comes by and transports away export goods like oil (the new resource in Tropico 3) or bananas, also bringing money in. Another way to earn money is to make the island tourist friendly and rip them off while they are visiting. The least of the players income comes from his own people who pay lease, use the available entertainment program and such. How much everything costs is determined by the player. He is also responsible for employing from overseas, if the required expertise isn’t yet available on his island which on the other hand enrages the Nationalists on the island. The Nationalists are one of the many groups of people the player needs to make happy besides each individual themselves.

ABOUT Tropico 3 Absolute Power (expansion) –

Tropico 3: Absolute Power is the first add-on to Tropico 3. The game features a new, 10 mission long campaign with new and unique challenges like increasing the satisfaction on an island full of nature-loving hippies (all resemblances to actual countries are purely accidental) above a certain point in only 10 years.

Besides the new campaign, Tropico 3: Absolute Power also throws 12 new buildings including a garbage dump, a weapons factory and a radar dish, as well as 10 new writs like the national holiday or the assassination of Juanito the annoying radio host, greatly increasing the possibilities and tactical decisions on how the player goes about building up his island empire. Another gameplay addition are the loyalists as a new faction whose size determines how many megalomania points the player earns during his reign. These points are added to the overall performance at the end of the game.