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Get in touch with your inner dictator!

Command the Caribbean nation of Tropico in this delicious combination of strategic city builder and humorous political simulator. As an all-powerful “Presidente” with a resource-rich paradise in the palm of your hand, it’s your choice to rule with a velvet glove or an iron fist.

Tropico 3: Gold Edition gives you control over everything from your island’s infrastructure to its economy and diplomatic relations with competing superpowers. Balance the noisy demands of Tropico’s hard-to-please political factions with those of your offshore bankers in this tongue-in-cheek recreation of the Cold War in a hot climate.

Features

• Have it your way! Run Tropico as a tourist mecca, an economic miracle, a police state or all three!
• Enjoy both the epic challenge of the 15-mission Campaign Mode and the intoxicating freedom of Sandbox Mode.
• When you’re the corrupt dictator of strategically important island, stuff happens! Wield your influence over every aspect of island life to prepare for everything from natural disasters to nuclear war.
• Help the people see things your way by “recounting” elections, “calming” rebels and issuing “creative” edicts, such as Burn Books, Bribe Factions and Print Money.
• Play as your favourite dictator! Pick from a rich list including Che Guevara, Evita Peron and of course, Fidel. Or create your very own strongman by shaping their character, background and beliefs.
• Create a cult of personality around El Presidente, help compose his silver-tongued speeches, manipulate the media and build monuments in his honor.
• Enjoy “Absolute Power”, the expansion pack included in Tropico 3: Gold Edition which offers a completely new 10-mission campaign.
• And always remember - power corrupts, but absolute power totally rocks.

Copyright © 2009-2011 Kalypso Media GmbH. All rights reserved. Published by Kalypso Media GmbH. Tropico is a registered trade mark of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. used under license by Kalypso Media GmbH. Mac and the Mac logo are trademarks of Apple Inc. registered in the U.S. and/or other countries. Feral and the Feral logo are trademarks of Feral Interactive Ltd. All other logos, copyrights and trademarks are property of their respective owners. All rights reserved.

Shopper Reviews

1. 

   Great game but little replay value

   by foist, USA - Feb 15th 2012

   This is a great game but peters out soon after the official campaign is done with. There's a menu option leftover from the PC version to allow players to play scenarios designed and uploaded by other players, but Mac users cannot make use of it. The sandbox mode random island generator is a bad joke -- while you can technically control island size and farming/mineral values, it produces nothing but completely flat islands with a few perfectly level plateaus. No rolling hills or mountains, and thus sugar is often the only viable cash crop. Very disappointing for those of us who don't wish to play the same pre-loaded scenarios over and over. Thankfully the game allows you to play the beautiful islands from the scenarios in sandbox mode, but even this is problematic. When you're choosing your island it forces you to select from a list of the islands' names and does not provide a preview, so unless you've memorized or written down the island names from the campaign you'll basically be choosing blind. Would a preview of each island have been so difficult to include when selecting them in sandbox mode? There's even a box on that screen that could be used for that purpose, but instead it shows a close-up of a beach scene that could be from any of the islands, and a useless descriptor (easy, medium, hard).
   
   As I said, great game but I'd kill for an island generator similar to the one from the first Tropico instead of the severely nerfed version included here.

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2. 

   Old timer

   by Wayne Thompson, USA - Feb 13th 2012

   If anyone knows what this game was like on the PC you will love this one
   It has all the same actions the other Tropicano games have I have been waiting for this one to come out for the Mac for a long time
   Good old days are back in the building the city of your dreams on a island

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3. 

   Betty Boom Forever!

   by Thomas Fahrni, Switzerland - Feb 2nd 2012

   This game is worth buying just because of the radio dj Betty Boom. Omg she's so funny, although i use the german version. The gameplay is pretty much the same as Tropico 1 but with a lot of nice new features. Find out! Besides it looks good! I really enjoy it! Thumbs up!

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