![]() If somehow Tropico 5 and 6 break wildly with the conventions I am about to discuss, I am not aware of it. I will speak about my experience with the series, which is limited to Tropico 3 (2009) and Tropico 4 (2011). In fact, I’ve come to find that the Tropico series has endeared itself to me solely on the basis of its setting and flavor, despite its actual gameplay mechanics.Īs the title of this post must have tipped you off, the Tropico series deals with the topic of the Cold War. I have never played those games and don’t intend to, since, as I’ve said, I don’t really like city builders. ![]() The most notable city builders are, of course, the games belonging to the storied SimCity series, and its spiritual successor Cities: Skylines. In fact, I was recently disappointed when I bought a game called Dawn of Man, which deals with a personal interest of mine (prehistoric times), only to find out it’s a weird sort of city builder that extends the playable period into the Bronze Age, losing the focus on pre-civilized survival that drew me in. I’ll cop to the fact that I’m personally not a fan of the genre. One of such factors can be population, but it can just as easily be ground fertility, weather, zoning ordinances, and so on. Unlike other popular strategy games like the Age of Empires series, in city builders the player doesn’t necessarily control individual “units” but rather places different buildings and markers along an allotted territory in such a way that will make a given set of factors interact and produce a favorable outcome. The games can all be broadly categorized as “strategy” titles, more specifically of the “city builder” subgenre that was pioneered by games like Stronghold and that has had something of a revival after the onset of the indie revolution.Ī city builder game is characterized by having the goal be to expand a human settlement. I say “ostensibly” because in practice the player is in control of, at the same time, more things that the head of State would presumably do (down to placing individual farms) and, yet, somehow also less than what would be, in my opinion, needed for full immersion. With the exception of Tropico 2, which is about pirates, these games are all set in a non-specific part of the Caribbean and have you ostensibly playing as the dictator of a small island nation. In this post, I will be discussing the portrayal of the time period in a very different sort of videogame: the city-building strategy series Tropico. In it, I go over the basic concepts of what the Cold War was, so if you’re unfamiliar with the concept I recommend you go check it out. This is a sort of follow-up to my previous post, which is about Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War.
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