When you reach the later eras, when your mineshafts are empty and your forests are depleted, those resources would have come in handy, especially as commodity prices never change. Part of the problem with the game’s economy is that resources are finite and that mine you built at the start of the game is going to run out sooner or later. Tropico 5’s focus on the light elements of the city building genre also come at a cost and the game would benefit from some of the detailed statistics and charts you might expect to find in CitiesSkylines or SimCity. At the least, more information would help you figure out sooner what was going on and why, which would, in turn, help you plan your growing metropolis better. Make the wrong choices here and you soon find a growing rebel threat emerging. Reasonable requests, to be sure, but no one wants to have their house demolished to make way for a shiny new apartment block either. It’s tempting to build a grand old city during the colonial era but as you reach new eras your people will demand better housing and conditions. Such market realignments can come at a high price. Making money, especially in the late game, is dependent on your ability to produce the good demanded by the world’s markets and establishing trade deals accordingly. The shiny towers and grand buildings that become available late in the game may look like tantalising additions to your nation but they are expensive and balancing the books can prove tricky. The biggest task you face as the game progresses is that of balancing your economy. Tropico 5, despite that, largely sticks to the fun aspect of city building rather than the challenging one and you should find that if you do a decent job saving your retirement fund from the rebels isn’t too difficult. Once you progress to the World War era you may be forced to confront an invasion from one of the major world powers, an altogether more difficult prospect. Some people are never happy but there are surely better ways to show it (underground newsletters, civil unrest etc.) rather than armed insurrection every time. One man’s freedom fighter is another man’s terrorist, as they say, but in a game where you control so much and can raise your people’s support to 80 or 90 per cent and still be faced with sporadic revolts against your benevolent and glorious regime is a little tiring.
It’s likely true to say that in every society at every point in history there have been some who have wanted the violent overthrow of their government and while that may be the case, the fact remains that as the game progresses there will be those who seek to oust you, yet for no obvious reason.
Once you’re ready to go it alone, your glorious revolution begins and ends with what amounts to a bribe to your former overlord or an invasion you must repel if you want to keep your newly independent country, and more importantly, your Swiss bank account.įighting off that invasion can be done if you fulfil royal contracts to renew the length of your tenure as colonial governor, thus extending the start of the game until you have time to prepare your defences and raise your armies. This is achieved readily enough by increasing the support of those who favour breaking away from the crown by opening entertainment buildings (which are limited in the early game), providing enough food, and building homes for your people among other things. The game works just as it does on PC, with you starting out as a humble colony of an overseas motherland vying for independence.
However, the game’s foray into colonial history through the World Wars, the Cold War, and the modern era offers a sense of scale and history that Tropico 4 lacked and a greater challenge for the would-be tin-pot city building dictator you’ve always wanted to be. In many ways, Tropico 5 plays like its predecessor, even if some of the buildings are missing or changed the jokes about your rise to power and the art style offer no revolutionary change from what came before.
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