Tropico 3

[Norgy]

Tropico 4 is due soon....

When one of the advertised features is Facebook/Twitter integration you know it's not going to be good.

FM 2011. 

[Slargos]

This game sounds like fun. 

[The Brain]

Twice I have started playing, aiming for a Sendero Luminoso/Khmer Rouge land of peasants. But I just can't find the energy to continue.

[Ed Anger]

This game sounds like fun. 

You can name your self The White King and eliminate your mud people citizens at a whim.

[Slargos]

This game sounds like fun. 

You can name your self The White King and eliminate your mud people citizens at a whim.

Sold!

[Ed Anger]

 

[Zoupa]

Twice I have started playing, aiming for a Sendero Luminoso/Khmer Rouge land of peasants. But I just can't find the energy to continue.

Yeah, same here. It's just not enough fun.

[Pedrito]

I found the first Tropico (with the expansion) to be more fun than the third game.
It's almost prehistoric in presentation, but I like it more, just like I prefer my beloved Railroad Tycoon 2 to the rather bland third installment.

L.

[derspiess]

I played through Tropico 3 on the 360 & thought it was pretty decent once I made my peace with how clumsy the interface was.  Tobacco seemed to be the key starting out, but I tended to make as much money from tourism, depending on the island. 

Not sure how much farther they can go with Tropico 4, save for maybe making the different factions behave more realistically.  I always thought it was odd in Tropico 3 how I was about as right-wing & pro-US as you could get, yet the communists loved me because I had plenty of housing & food.

[Josquius]

Really?
Farming was never a big deal for me, it was mines all the way. Feeding the people with fish.

[The Brain]

Farming was never a big deal for me, it was mines all the way.

[DGuller]

Mines run out, farms don't.  We're not talking about eating crop farms, we're talking about cash crop farms.  The tobacco production chain was indeed a very lucrative one.

[Josquius]

Generally though the scenario tended to finish by the time the minerals ran out. Either that or it was well on its way to completion and I had a full industrial/tourist economy up and running.

[derspiess]

Generally though the scenario tended to finish by the time the minerals ran out. Either that or it was well on its way to completion and I had a full industrial/tourist economy up and running.

I always ran out of minerals well before the scenario ended.  But I guess I was maybe a little OCD about keeping production as high as it could go.

[HisMajestyBOB]

I never seem to get much done with tourism on my islands. By the time I'm ready to start the tourism industry up, the urban sprawl from my industry and tenements means there's no pristine, tourist-friendly areas left.