Seriously if you like strategy and simulator games then look no further than "Tropico".
The game is so addictive once you start that I would liken it to heroin. It has a massive amount of game life, you will get hundreds of hours of game play out of it.
It's also 9 years old so you can but it for very little money (literally penny's) in second hand game shops or the Internet. I last bought it a few months back for 45p (about $1). Well worth it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropico
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Hmm? I see Dystopia beat me to this suggestion. Well that's all the more reason to buy it.







