Tropico is a simulator developed by PopTop Software, released 21 April 2001 on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Tropico is
Tropico is a simulator game developed by PopTop Software and released in 2001. It was published by Feral Interactive. It is available on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Tropico is a construction and management simulation video game developed by PopTop Software and published by Gathering of Developers in April 2001. Feral Interactive has developed and published a number of the games in the series for Mac OS X. The games see the player taking the role of "El Presidente", who rules a fictional Caribbean island country named Tropico during the Cold War era and beyond.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are business and comedy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Tropico holds a critic score of 82 out of 100. That places it above 78% of the 2,881 rated simulator games in our database, which average 71. Games released in 2001 averaged 72, so it scored 10 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 82, across 60 votes.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 1.6 GHz, 256 MB of RAM and 128 MB DirectX® 9 graphics card. At 0GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 3GB.
What it launched against
Tropico launched on 21 April 2001, within three weeks of Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec, Worms World Party, Flower, Sun, and Rain and Bomberman Tournament. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec, Worms World Party, Flower, Sun, and Rain, Bomberman Tournament.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Tropico yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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