Tropico: Mucho Macho Edition

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• ASIN: B000068XKQ
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: June 26, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #26,327 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Platform: PC

From the Manufacturer

Tropico Mucho Macho Edition is the definitive Tropico compilation, including the original Tropico, the Paradise Island expansion, 12 all-new scenarios, the official Brady Games strategy guide and an in-depth making-of featurette.

Tropico takes the addictive building-oriented gameplay of hits such as Railroad Tycoon 2, combined with a healthy dose of Latin American political intrigue, and bundles it up in an easy-to-learn, hard to master, utterly addictive package.

Tropico: Paradise Island is the official expansion pack for Tropico, the hit "Fun in the Sun" Caribbean Simulation from Pop Top Software. As the all-powerful dictator El Presidente, face new challenges as you build your thriving island paradise, not to mention a bountiful Swiss bank account. Tropico: Paradise Island provides more tourist attractions such as beach villas, tennis courts, and nature preserves to help lure those Yanqui tourists. And for you "evil" tyrants out there, new dictator attributes allow for the success of even the most unjust regime! It may be time to enforce Martial Law, because it looks like there's trouble in paradise.

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65 of 65 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lots more than a three hour tour..., August 14, 2002

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Bruce Gray "gurpsgm" (Shenandoah Valley, VA, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tropico Mucho Macho Edition (CD-ROM)

Watch out Gilligan's Island! Here's Tropico - Mucho Macho Edition! This edition includes both previously released discs - the main Tropico disc, and the Paradise Island supplement disc. There's also loads of extras, including a CD-Rom based manual for both games.

The game puts you in total control of a small tropical island, and it's up to you - do you want to be a benevolent dictator, giving your citizens a life of luxury; or do you want to be an evil tyrant, giving your citizens only the things you think they deserve; or be someone in between? Options include customizing your own stats - from a religious zealot to an alcoholic womanizer, and lots of other personality options.

The main tutorial is excellent, and gives you enough of the basics to play the game right away, and there are four more advanced tutorials that give you a more in depth look at all of the options available.

Do you build a camp of virtually slave labor by building bunkhouses and tenements for your citizens, or a paradise by building condos and luxury homes, or a travel destination by building hotels and tourist traps, or a combination of any of these, or all of these?

What do you grow? Start with Corn (to feed your citizens) and then try Sugar, Tobacco, Pineapples, and other, more exportable, items - or build farms to provide crops for your factories, including a Cigar Works, a Rum Distillery, a Jewelry Shop, and others. Or build ranches with cows and goats to provide milk and meat for your citizens.

Do you want to explore the ruins of the ancient civilization, and if so, do you want an archaeological dig or a more profitable museum? Do you dig for gold and other metals, or do we try to preserve the ecology with fishing and more rural pursuits? Do you want to form alliances with the benevolent US, or the more controlling Soviets, or try a middle-of the road approach?

The detail is marvelous - you can click on individual citizens to determine their needs, or get a detailed report on the population of the entire island, as well as generalized reports on tourism, food production, and many others. You can request specific citizens to emigrate to your island to run your newly built facilities - everything from farms and ranches to TV stations and tourist traps.

How do you keep your citizens happy? Build restaurants and pubs, and even things like nightclubs and casinos (which also can attract rich and not-so-rich tourists). Put down rebellions with the military, or just give your citizens a raise - but don't try either of these too much or you may find yourself faced with a military coup, a peasant uprising, or simply voted out of office. And that can hurt that Swiss Bank Account you've been putting all that slush money into for your retirement.

There are dozens of scenarios - ranging in difficulty from very easy to insanely hard. Try an easy game after the first tutorial, and then, after the four additional tutorials, try ne of the more challenging scenarios.

There are only two known "cheats" for this game - and no more are needed. (Press and hold control and type "pesos" for more money, and press and hold control and type "contento" for happier citizens.)

As a veteran of several Sim style games, I found this to be highly involving and almost addicting. If you like games like "Civilization" or "The Sims", I can't recommend this game highly enough, especially with the decrease in total price represented by the dual disc box. Try it. I'm sure you'll agree that it's much more than a three hour tour.

24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Middle-Aged Woman Addicted!, February 12, 2003

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Robin Currier - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tropico Mucho Macho Edition (CD-ROM)

I've never been a big fan of "shoot-em-up" games or action games. I like something a little slower paced.

So, what's the game industry to do for people like me?

Here it is! Finally, a game that I love playing. You can tailor this game to exactly what you'd like to experience. If you want a fast-paced, competitive game, choose one of the difficult scenarios. If you want to just fool around, explore, and build the perfect island paradise, choose the sand-box mode (that's for me!).

The basic premise of the game is that you are the new El Presidente, and can set up your island any way you like. Want to be a harsh militarist who makes his people toe the line? Want to be a benevolent dictator who lives only to make his people happy? A strict environmentalist who wants to preserve the natural beauty of the island? You choose!

Scores are based on the happiness of your people (keep them employed and housed! And be careful with the pollution from too many factories and electrical plants!), island economy, and other factors (for one, including how much you have stashed in your private Swiss bank account!).

Here are the areas that the game excels in:

1) Graphics - Beautiful, colorful graphics that show incredible detail in everything from the local market to the sports stadium, make this game a visual treat.

2) Humor - A friendly advisor gives you lots of help in a very funny way. "Good morning, Presidente. May I say you are looking particularly powerful today?"

3) Great Characters - All of the people who live on your island have their own thoughts that you can tap into at any time to give you clues on what they need("Wish there was something to do around here. Guess I'll go home and eat rocks.").

4) Infinite Play - Depending on how you initially set up the island, there are infinite ways to go (set up a tourist paradise? An industrial powerhouse? Agricultural money maker? Military rule?) You can issue special edicts ranging from skimming personal funds off building permits, to setting up a Papal visit, to knocking off a rival.

5) Great Music - Wonderful Latin-flavored music makes it a pleasure to spend those long, middle-of-the-night hours playing...

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I've Got To Be a Macho Man, August 28, 2002

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L. Blue "Blue" (Wheaton, MD United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tropico Mucho Macho Edition (CD-ROM)

I've never been a big fan of Sim-style games. You build a few buildings and watch people you don't care about interact in them - big woop. That reluctance was what kept me from buying the original "Tropico" even with all the rave reviews and that the subject was intriguing since I've lived on a few Caribbean islands and studied their political economies.

I was still skeptical of buying a Sim-style game when I bought "Tropico Mucho Macho" but now I'm a big fan. TMM has all the little details that draw you into a game with issues of economy, politics and personality. You know you've been hooked when you wake up in the morning wondering how you'll do in the next (cyber) election of a game you stayed up to late the night before playing.

I've found the game even more fascinating as I've de-optimized the variables of personality and enviornment to make it harder. In easier games, you can run the first ten years exactly alike, with a few differences in crops or minerals you chose to gather, and then decide how much industry vs. tourism you go on to. But make your leader have a few less desirable traits and your island with less resources and the first ten years can be dicey and the next decades even more interesting. The game has a lot of replayability and a hundred variables.

I recommend TMM for people like me who are more into CIV-type, or even turn based war games, for a fun time with those much derided Sims.

Hey! Hey! Hey, hey, hey!

Macho, macho man (macho man)
I've got to be, a macho man
Macho, macho man
I've got to be a macho! Ow....

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