You might have carefully planned all your expenses for the coming year, when suddenly and out of nothing, a tsunami devastates your tourist-paradise on the beach and demands repair. There are also natural hazards, elections and military coups that can occur and all these have a negative effect on your standing. One that is consistently present are the rebels building up a force large enough to overthrow you. There are several random events that can ruin all your plans very easily. This means you will have to balance your choices out and keep careful track of what you are doing. The trick however is that many factions have conflicting ideals, for example: banning gay marriage makes the church very happy, but the intellectuals will dislike it. Keeping factions happy makes the people aligned with them happy and will mean more people will vote for you in the election. There are several factions, both national and international, that you will have to keep happy. Even the buildings that just give you money are more complex than usual because they often require certain resources to function, so you have to either import those or have other buildings make that resource.īesides building and keeping people happy, you will also have to truly delve into the political aspect of this game. Tropico does the latter and I often found myself making more buildings that give you new options instead of the ones that just generate revenue. A good city-simulator on the other hand has buildings that open up new and interesting features to the player to play around with.
I have always said that a bad city-simulator only has buildings that provide a set number of revenue or give a bonus to your stats. It's refreshing to say the least and the Cold War immediately gives the player two large factions to keep happy at the same time and a serious conflict (invasion from either the USSR or America) to want to avoid. The player takes on the role of an island dictator during the Cold War and is tasked with raising cities on several poverty-stricken island nations. The game has a very original setting and one that I think is severely underused in this industry.
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