Tropico: Mucho Macho Edition

by Macsoft

Product Features

• As the newly installed dictator of a Caribbean island, create a good life for your people
• Various internal and external political facets and activities; follow a socialist or capitalist path
• Build your population from a mere 35 to a bustling 500 unique individuals
• More than 45 different characters with up to 50 separate attributes for each
• 80 different buildings including sports arenas, cathedrals, airports, and more

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00008QWJO
• Item Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: May 12, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #34,708 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #84 in Video Games > Mac Games > Simulation
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Platform: Mac

From the Manufacturer

MacSoft rules the Caribbean with Tropico! You, the newly installed dictator of an obscure Caribbean island, must create a life of prosperity and happiness for your people. Build farms to feed them, tenements to house them, pubs to lift their spirits, and churches to save their souls. Follow a socialist path of factories, mines, logging and fishing, or chase capitalist dollars by building resorts to lure Yanqui tourists. Success will bring the praise of your people along with a fat Swiss bank account. Failure? Well, there's always martial law.

Features:

• Build your population from a mere 35 to a bustling 500 unique individuals.
• More than 45 different characters with up to 50 separate attributes for each.
• Eighty different buildings including sports arenas, cathedrals, airports, rum distilleries, and cabarets.
• Various internal and external political facets and activities that are at the discretion of the dictator including political popularity, uprisings, elections, and trading with foreign powers.

Product Description

In Tropico: Mucho Macho, you've got hours of strategy fun in the sun just waiting for you!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Stay up all night!, July 16, 2003

By 

Ravinia (our nation's capital) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tropico: Mucho Macho Edition (Mac) (CD-ROM)

Time flies as you play this incredibly detailed game from PopTop. It is the same concept as the popular Sims games, but with a much more global approach. Zoom in close on your people and you'll be amazed at the detail of the buildings, people and lush vegetation. Zoom out and control their lives as little ants under your feet. Unlike some other games where the goal is to fight and destroy, this game you determine how you want to play. Set up a benevolent environmentally friendly island where the goal is to make everyone's lives as happy as possible... or... rule as a sadistic despot and fight rebels and international armies!

One of the best aspects of the game is how much control you have over the length, goals, and starting environment. It's not possible to run out of new games!

Wonderfully engaging, sure to keep you up all night long.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Addictive SIMS-style game with a salsa flavor, December 12, 2004

By 

Robert Pratte (charleston, il USA) - See all my reviews
(VINE VOICE)    (REAL NAME)   

= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Tropico: Mucho Macho Edition (Mac) (CD-ROM)

I really don't recall my first week owning the game - except that my people seemed to always oust me after about 20 years. Unfortunately, I am just too nice a guy - and it is difficult to build an economy, ensure proper housing, keep job satisfaction high, etc. So I kept trying, honing my strategies, trying different scenarios, and then building my own islands. I've had the game for several months now and I'm still hooked. I often think about strategies in my off time. But why is the game so appealing?

There is the fantasy aspect. As compared to the SIMS (a game I find boring), where things occur in suburbia, or at least a place readily familiar, tropical islands hold appeal for the average poor soul trapped in (my case) the midwestern U.S. Tropical islands are sexy, otherwise we wouldn't spend so much effort and money vacationing on them. The game does a good job setting up a tropical feel (the music, the scenery, the accent of the narrator/assistant.

There is the lure of power. The association of your dictator with Castro is intentional. Here is you chance to either become the dictator that you know him to be, or to make up for his sins and shortcomings. Of course, many of the aspects of game-play are configurable, therefore, one can determine which of these shortcomings you wish your dictator to possess.

The level of involvement. Dictators, whether benevolent or not, are involved in the day-to-day lives of their people. Here you can monitor conversations, political beliefs, happiness, etc. There is a lot of information at your disposal, though you must discern the useful from the useless.

The historical edge. As mentioned previously, the association with Castro seems intentional - after all, he is the most familiar dictator to many Americans. However, the game includes histories of several other dictators in its instructional pamphlet. Thus, you feel that you are learning something as you while away the hours.

Overall, I found the game entertaining, at the top of its genre. If you like SIMS-style games, I recommend that you give this one a whirl.

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Addictive, inventive Sim, June 20, 2004

By 

T. Adshead - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tropico: Mucho Macho Edition (Mac) (CD-ROM)

I prefer this type of game, as it's impossible to get stuck. I get frustrated with games where it becomes impossible to progress, either because of a glitch, or because some obstacle is basically impossible to pass, even with walkthroughs. This doesn't happen with Sims.

Tropico runs fine on my iBook G3 800 MHz with 640 MB, running Panther. I haven't had to adjust performance or anything.

The game sets you up as President of a small Carribean island, and you have to decide what to build, what to pay your workers, how much to embezzle, within a tight budget. There is a lot of complexity - more than in the Sims, for instance, and I am still exploring all the possible options, after a month of playing with the game. I haven't got into building TV stations, or imprisoning my enemies, for example, as I haven't had to fine tune to that extent.

Tropico is easy to learn, and there are three tutorial games included, which allow you to learn how some of the key parts of the game work. After that, you can either just run the sim as you want, or you can follow one of the 30 or so predefined challenges, where you have to build an airport, or embezzle a certain amount of money, or generate a particular level of tourist revenue, within a given time frame. These challenges are quite difficult, and require you to use all of the functions in the game.

I find it easy to get hooked on a game in the evening, and it's very hard to put the computer aside until I've run through a scenario. The good thing about Tropico is that there are varying levels, so relative novices can run through a game with no problems, but that doesn't mean you get bored, as there are plenty of features to explore at more challenging levels. Definitely a keeper!

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