Tropico: Paradise Island

The Tropico expansion pack, called Tropico: Paradise Island, is now in stores as of mid-January,2002 in European countries and February 7, 2002 in North America! Below you will find information on what to expect from this new add-on and links to other sites to help you learn more. Images courtesy of PopTop and Gamespot sites.

As the name implies, the main focus of Tropico: Paradise Island is to add more tourist-oriented features to Tropico. These include new tourist attractions, new tourist characters and new ships for these tourists. But the expansion pack does not stop there! There are many more new features including the following:

• A total of 12 or more new buildings.
• More than 20 new scenarios, including a Gilligan's Island spoof.
• Natural disasters such as hurricanes, tropical storms, hoof and mouth disease and red tide.
• New edicts to allow you to enforce your will more effectively.
• New dictator attributes to enhance your dictator's profile.
• A number of gameplay enhancements such as full rotation of many buildings, more powerful martial law, 20% faster construction and more high score details.
• A random event generator for easier scenario creation and/or natural disasters. You can even turn this on for older scenarios to throw in a new twist.

See the sections below for more details and pictures of many of these new features.

There will be four new characters in Paradise Island. These are the male and female Eco Tourists and the male and female Spring Break Tourists. See pictures below for some shots of these new tourists.

Since neither of these groups would likely come ashore in a luxury yacht, there are two new ships that will bring them to your island. No pictures yet on these.

Female Spring Breakers	Eco tourists at the Conservatory.
More Spring Breakers	Ready to head home.
A whole planeload of tourists!

There are a total of six new edicts in Paradise Island:

• World Geographic Special that draws more Eco Tourists.
• Spring Break Vacation package to attract those young college students to Tropico.
• Social Security system to increase El Presidente's respect among voters.
• Capture edict to go with the new Dungeon facility.
• Conscription to boost your military strength.

There are a total of 12 or more new buildings in various categories of building types. See below for pictures and descriptions of all the new buildings. For more pictures and details, visit the official Tropico:Paradise Island site.

Tourist Buildings

The new tourist buildings are a main feature of Tropico: Paradise Island and include both tourist attractions and tourist accommodations. Click on the pictures below for a full-size view of each. The Colonial Fort is unique in that it cannot be built by the player, but will appear randomly as for the archaeological site. It can be developed into one of three options: a dungeon, a museum or an artifact dig. The final one is El Presidente's Childhood Home, which acts as a museum.

Beach Villa - Front View	Beach Villa - Rear View
Beach Condo	Conservatory
Tennis Court
Nature Preserve	Duty Free Shop
Miniature Golf/Arcade	Miniature Golf/Arcade
Movie Theater	Movie Theater
Marina

Military Buildings

There is one new military buildings for Paradise Island, the army base. The army base acts as housing for up to 15 Generals or Soldiers and their spouses, with up to three Generals as staff. However, they do not pay rent for the privilege of living on an army base. And no, your soldiers cannot drive the jeeps. They are for show only. See below for a picture.

Army Base

Industrial Buildings

The furniture factory will take lumber as raw materials and convert it to furniture goods for export.

Furniture Factory

From Spring Breakdown to Gilligan's Island, they're all here! A total of 23 scenarios are included with Paradise Island. These include 18 all-new scenarios plus five previously released PopTop scenarios: the original two bonus scenarios, Club Tropico and Peg Leg's Cove, and the Sucio, Green Island and Rebel scenarios released since Tropico came out. Click the image below for a screenshot of the scenario listing for some of the new scenarios. More details on four of the new scenarios are available at the official Tropico:Paradise Island site.

I also noticed that one of the scenarios appears to be based on a pcx image of the U.S. Virgin Islands from the Cafe Tropico Mapmakers Room. Compare the images below and see for yourself!