In fact, compared to similar genre titles, Tropico 6 turned out to have one of the more intuitive control systems I have come across. After the first hour or so, however, I found the controls surprisingly natural for a top-down strategy-style title.
At first, the radial menus galore approach of Tropico 6 is hard to get your head around and navigate.
The biggest challenge though, as ever, is transitioning from point-and-click to a controller-based control system.
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The content of the console port of Tropico 6 is seemingly identical to the PC version of the game. The various additions to the game, as enticing as they are for a long-term fan, do mean more to think about, and stay on top of, for the unsuspecting newcomer. If the latter is not for you though, you may find that hopping off the bus at Tropico 5 was more up your street. Every mission is challenging and supports several methods of completion, but time, patience, risk and micro-management will always see you through. From chocolate trade to smuggling gold past the Brits’ in coconuts, there is great variety and a wealth of Tropico’s classically-cringey humour to go with it. Taking a more episodic and thematic approach than in the series’ past, Tropico 6 seeks to tell the stories of El Presidente and Penultimo’s many triumphs through history.
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If the conflict elements have not been your jam in the past, for example, you can sway the management of your island towards peaceful prosperity through trade and political means.Īll of this space, these options and your shiny new wonders from foreign lands are all supporting characters in one of the best stories in the Tropico series to date. Additionally, a broader range of options in your political constitution allow you to play the game the way you want to. The people are no easier to please than before, but at least you have a firmer picture of why they are unhappy. You must be ready to follow up on your promises, though you aren’t some Western politician after all! Naturally, the previously-introduced Almanac and map-overlays are still present for all your data-based electorate queries. Improved election speeches allow you to fine tune your foci ahead of an election swaying voter approval in the direction of your choosing. The political systems of Tropico 6 have been developed to bring more realism, but most importantly more player control, over the political-side of the game. Whilst these elements do not go so far as to take the forefront of proceedings, they have become a critical background focus. This adds an exciting new element to the island management side of Tropico, and brings the added benefit of an improved supply chain model to the game. The logistics of people and resources have previously been dependent simply on roads in Tropico, but the challenge of multiple islands and greater distances from A-to-B have let to the necessary addition of new public transport systems, along with teamster ports to move your goods. Well, using other people’s wonders (graciously commandeered by your trust pirates, of course), but that still counts as your way, right? More room to breath brings new challenges to the game, too most of all, transportation. The game maps are the biggest in the game’s history, spanning over multiple islands and giving you the room to build Tropico your way.
In case that opener didn’t make it obvious, Tropico 6 is big. Tropico simply MUST have them and that is the basis of this game’s varied and exciting stories. It turns out that what the tiny nation of Tropico has been missing all along is simple – wonders. The careful balance of power vs pleasing the people of your island empire is your primary objective, however El Presidente’s sights are fixed on a bigger picture now. Tropico 6 builds upon the classic Tropico tropes of pseudo-Communist development, international “relations” and micromanagement of a thriving, often legally ambiguous economy. El Presidente’s conquest from my office to my living room sofa is once again complete only this time he has is eyes set on… the world! Tropico 6 is the latest title in the iconic Kalypso Media island-builder-come-political-simulator franchise. “More control and space to play make Tropico 6 a great step-up from previous titles…”
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