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Going broke is easy, because there are so many fewer sources of income for you. If you don’t do the right things in the right order or expand too quickly, you will go broke. The short campaign teaches you the basics rather quickly and then sharply increases in difficulty, but a lot of this difficulty is based on how closely Tropico 2 hews to the traditional model of the try-and-fail-and-try-again model of city builder campaign design of its era. You recruit pirates and send them out on missions for or against the nations that have settled the Caribbean. You build the entertainment, the housing, the ships and the industry. It’s the Golden Age of Piracy, and you are managing a Pirate Haven. As annoying as Penultimo the obsequious radio shill is, he is better than the repetitive snarling pirate reminding me that my pirates need more wenches. Browns and topes and greys blend together on a very bland green carpet of grass. Tropico 2 is definitely not a vibrant rainbow world unless you zoom in on structures. It’s weird going back in time from the current light and colour drenched Tropicos to one from almost a decade ago. It took me a while to find my bearings, but it was sort of neat to go back and see why I didn’t like it very much when it came out in 2003. Now I’ve been taken to task for ignoring or dismissing Tropico 2, so I reinstalled it this weekend because my brain was totally unable to deal with anything much more complicated or original. But it never real takes flight or becomes convincing as a pirate city game, in my opinion. Developed by Frog City, the makers of the Imperialism games, it has some real talent behind it and you can sort of see the direction the devs were pushing it.
#TROPICO 1 SCENARIOS SERIES#
I’ve talked a lot about the Tropico series of city builders and usually dismissed Tropico 2: Pirate Cove with a wave of my hand as if it doesn’t really exist.