![]() ![]() While previous games focused on the Cold War era, there are now four time periods to deal with. The overall progress of your reign on the island is now broken up into eras. Conceptually, the moment to moment gameplay is vastly the same as Tropico 4.īut let’s dig into the new additions. ![]() These social management options remain unique to the franchise, though there’s hardly anything new here. ![]() You can bribe officials, sabotage elections, enact edicts and laws to your liking, or even unleash the military on any rebels or problematic individuals. When you’re not fast forwarding time, waiting for the buildings to finish, players can dive into their island’s political intrigue. The buildings automatically fill their job vacancies, providing employment to your people. You place buildings down, and watch as your workers from the local shop drive or walk over and construct it. You oversee your piece of paradise by creating a functioning town, controlling everything from housing to tourism, resource mining, military, farming, and so forth. Sadly, despite a few additions and changes to the gameplay, Tropico 5 is beginning to make the franchise feel like it’s stuck on repeat.Īs has been tradition, players assume the role of “El Presidente,” a leader of a small island in the Caribbean. It’s wearing all the same clothes, seemingly unaware of the passage of time since the last game, and looking to impress strategy fans once more with its whacky presentation and solid sim foundations. Since landing in the hands of Haemimont Games and being rebooted with the third entry, we’ve already seen a fourth game, and now the fifth stands awkwardly at our door. The Tropico franchise is perhaps not as widely known as Sim City, but over the last decade it has established its own unique brand of city building simulation. ![]()
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