Tropico 2: Pirate Cove

by MacSoft

Product Features

• Create and control your pirate haven through 16 swashbuckling episodes filled with shady mates, landlubbers and talking parrots
• Fuel your island's economy by plundering wealthy merchants, then take captives to use as a workforce
• Keep the buccaneers satisfied with rum, gambling, women and feasts
• Try to lure legendary pirates like Blackbeard, Henry Morgan, and Black Bart to your island -- they'll expand your influence and treasure chest
• You can even build parrot aviaries to produce the perfect pirate companions

Product Details

• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B0009HL34Q
• Item Weight: 11 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: May 12, 2005
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #22,442 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #73 in Video Games > Mac Games > Strategy

Product Description

Platform: Mac

From the Manufacturer

Tropico 2: Pirate Cove is the sequel to the award-winning Fun in the Sun Caribbean simulation, Tropico. As a Pirate King, rule a secret pirate island full of despicable 17th century Sea Dogs. Rule your economy by plundering wealthy merchant ships and taking prisoners back to the island as captive workers. Keep your scurvy buccaneers satisfied with rowdy gambling, jolly feasting, and barrels of rum! World powers fear you, brigands respect you, captives obey your every command, and don’t forget about the wenching! Argh, thar ain’t nuttin like bein’ a Pirate King!

Product Description

Tropico 2®: Pirate Cove is the sequel to the award-winning Fun in the Sun Caribbean simulation Tropico®. As a Pirate King rule a secret pirate island full of despicable 17th century Sea Dogs. Rule your economy by plundering wealthy merchant ships and taking prisoners back to the island as captive workers. Keep your scurvy buccaneers satisfied with rowdy gambling jolly feasting and barrels of rum! World powers fear you brigands respect you captives obey your every command and don t forget about the wenching! Argh thar ain t nuttin like bein a Pirate King!System Requirements:800MHz processorOS X version 10.2.8 or higher256MB RAMCD ROM drive32MB Video card1.8GB free hard drive space Format: MAC 10.2 OR LATER Genre: ENTERTAINMENT Rating: NR UPC: 828068103224 Manufacturer No: 10322

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

33 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great new edition to the wonderful original Tropico, May 25, 2005

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Jessica Thrasher (AZ) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Tropico 2: Pirate Cove (Mac) (CD-ROM)

If you liked Tropico, you should find this fun and entertaining as well. I think both Tropico/Tropico 2 are the best sim games on the market, much more fun that the usual city building games. At first it's a little difficult to grasp some of the concepts, and game play is a little different than the original. In this version you're concerned a lot more with events that actually happen off the island, where as in the original you didn't have any control over what happened when boats/planes left the island. Of course, you also didn't have to worry about ships sinking...

The types of games are similar to the original Tropico, where you have scenarios or ones you design yourself. The map editor is a great thing that was not included with the original. You can play single games or there is also a "campaign" that starts you off easy and increases in difficulty (like the Warcraft campaign idea).

Pirate Cove provides hours and hours of swashbuckling fun and has many new features. As far as gameplay goes, performance has improved since the original Tropico, it works great in OS X. If you like this game, I'd HIGHLY recommend the original Tropico also.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Argh - A good time indeed, September 17, 2005

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S. M. Overturf "Geeky Gurl" (Columbia, SC) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Tropico 2: Pirate Cove (Mac) (CD-ROM)

After playing Civilization III at an almost addictive rate, Tropico II - Pirate's Cove is a breath of fresh air. And maybe a bit more challenging. There's a tricky balance to keeping your captives resigned and your pirates happy. The graphics are fun and so is a Pirate's life. The learning curve is higher than Civ III (it was for me) - there are so many varibles with Tropico II - a reason why I like the game. The ships a player gets to build are cool. I have had the game unexpectedly quit on me a couple of times and the auto save feature can get annoying. But overall it's a purchase I'm happy with.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Super lag, January 6, 2007

By 

Blanka711 - See all my reviews

= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Tropico 2: Pirate Cove (Mac) (CD-ROM)

I bought this game a few months ago and was hoping to have a fun sim game for my PowerBook G4. Unfortunately the game is super laggy when you have a few pirates and captives roaming about. In the later stages of the game it got so bad that I had to turn all video options to low and still had the lag problems. I would have rated the game higher for fun factor but just couldn't enjoy it because of the slow motion capture effect that kept going on due to the lag of the game. Disappointed that this was the case, for the most part I had fun building the town and earning gold ect., just can't believe that MacSoft put together such a unpolished game.

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