Tropico 4

K. Fields
2023-12-20T13:59:17-05:00
Video Games

I've previously played Tropico and Tropico 3. The first game impressed me with its entertaining take on city building. Its setting was presented with a sense of humor and some great latin music. I played Tropico 3 many years later and it was every bit as fun. As expected, the graphics were improved but the gameplay was updated as well. This month, I've been playing the next installment in the series, Tropico 4. From what I've read, it is frequently chosen as the best of the six Tropico games. So far, I have to agree it is very good. It plays a lot like Tropico 3 with updated graphics and some evolutionary game tweaks. Foreign relations are no longer limited to the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. It now includes Europe and China. There are more options but it plays very similarly to its predecessor. For whatever reason, however, I haven't been as enthused with it as I was with the other Tropico games I played. I've experienced this with other game series in the past. The Grand Theft Auto III trilogy comes to mind. I loved GTA III and I loved Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. By the time I got around to playing Grand Theft Auto: San Andeas, however, I wasn't into it nearly as much. The quality of the game was just as good but I had become jaded after investing so many hours into the GTA III series. I think the same thing applies to the Tropico series. There are 20 missions but I currently don't plan on completing them all.