Gamespot Review for You

[Mack the Knife]

thought i'd post it here before i read it but quick glance is they are oh-hum about it...7.4 on the richter scale

find it here and i'm sure i'll be back for the debate...

[Emperor Oli]

The Gamespot review is excellent and well-balanced but I really must protest at the Gamespy review  .  On the original Tropico: "It had a great premise and a lot of fun buried beneath its mountains of charts and far-too-complicated political interactions".  I would hardly call the logbook mountains of implied rubbish and the political interactions through the edicts were not complicated.  On P.C: "It would also have been be nice if you could actually control your pirates at sea rather than just giving them plunder orders and hoping for the best."  This is a city-builder game not an RPG.  "While the graphics certainly aren't state of the art" - They are a dadgumed lot better than some of the trash other companies spew out by the bucketload.  The Gamespy argument is highly illogical - flitting from one subject which is deemed "bad" only to praise it in the next paragraph.  If you want a proper review which is balanced and unbiased, go to Gamespot  by the link above which Mack the Knife kindly put up.  

[Mad Jaques Shellac]

tropico + pirates = funnest game ever


gamespy/gamespot gives 9's for whatever tired mindless real time clickfest game de jour.  Age of Mythology, warcraft 3, c&c generals... bleh.

Tropico is one of the more innovative games in a long time as is tropico 2.

[Mack the Knife]

Slave Tycoon

i quit reading when pastor dulin began preaching AT me.   a number of folks here were in a huff about fear and wenching (i recollect these things did happen) but Slave Tycoon and his diatribe about morals was to evangelical for me.  we are playing as little pretend pirate people in a make believe world aren't we?

[Emperor Oli]

Who is Pastor Dulin?  

[Mack the Knife]

"Fans of Tropico may wish that this were a more direct
descendant of the original, and those who like the new
pirate theme may wish Frog City had built a new game
from scratch."
- Pastor Dulin    FULL REVIEW

[Emperor Oli]

He sounds like a bit of an arse  

[Garrat]

The overall review score was VERY good comming from Gamespy though.  If you look at the big list of Gamespy reviews, 88% would be in the top 10% of all games the have ever reviewed (maybe better even).

I totally agree with his slave controll comments though.

I was just playing.  I had gotten two blacksmiths and built a smelting plant and blacksmith place.  I was wondering why I wasn't getting any swords showing up at all and when I looked BOTH blacksmiths were working at the dead blacksmith building.... I had to close out the jobs there to force them to go to the foundry smelting building (Arrrggg).

[Coconut Kid]

...  A number of folks here were in a huff about fear and wenching (i recollect these things did happen) but Slave Tycoon and his diatribe about morals was to evangelical for me.  we are playing as little pretend pirate people in a make believe world aren't we?

Instead of managing a small, developing country, Tropico 2 puts you in charge of a secret pirate hideout. You must kidnap workers to create a basic economy of products and services, and then keep them terrified so they won't try to escape. The historical accuracy of the scenario is questionable--did pirates really manage huge, thriving towns and industries? The morality is even more questionable, and the jaunty music and cartoonish graphics can't hide the fact that Tropico 2 could be more accurately named Slave Tycoon. The amoral attitudes of games like Grand Theft Auto III and Postal 2 are denounced, or at least they stick out, and yet the similarly amoral Tropico 2 has somehow not been commented upon, even though executions, kidnapping, slavery, and forced prostitution are the backbone of the game.

Gamespy review on the original Tropico: "It had a great premise and a lot of fun buried beneath its mountains of charts and far-too-complicated political interactions".