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sinha on 25 June 2009
unsigner said:

Hi guys, Ivan-Assen from Haemimont Games here, developers of Tropico 3 for PC and Xbox 360.

It's not exactly a city-builder, it's more of a "political sim"; the point is not to build a grand city, but to maintain your iron grip over the island with all means possible: bribes, faked elections, political assassinations, alliances with the superpowers (it's set in the Cold War). It's a sequel to Tropico 1, not Tropico 2 - which was quite a different game about 18-century pirates.

It's quite a slower game than e.g. Halo Wars, there shouldn't be any concerns about the controls.

And there are hardly any strategy games on the 360 this fall, so we keep our fingers crossed! Please buy 10 copies each


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Zkuq on 25 June 2009

Not good, strategy doesn't work too well on consoles. This could affect the PC version negatively. Well, at least it's not a fast-paced RTS... Maybe it won't be that bad. And maybe I should try the first Tropico that's been there collecting dust for several months already :P

Anyway, I want to walk those streets in the game.

Oh, and thanks for realizing the difference between 'exclusive' and 'console exclusive'.



Garamond on 25 June 2009

Looks like the kind of game I want to play now but will completely forget and care about by the time it's released.

Hope everybody else has fun!



waron on 25 June 2009

i hope it won't be full priced game - while i might buy it after all(depending on the final game) cause there's not many(if any) slow paced strategy games like sim city on 360. i'm not keen on forking 60$ for any game and i think it may be a hard-to-get game after few months.
people calling console rts inferior because lack of mouse - have you ever played any rts game online? i dare you to use only mouse during online matches in Starcraft, i bet none of you will last longer than 10 minutes. i played Starcraft many times with my friends during classes in highschool and while none of them are pro(they only play for fun), they kicked my ass every time and they were playing only on keyboard(they used mouse only to set destination of their own armies).



selnor on 25 June 2009
Zkuq said:

Not good, strategy doesn't work too well on consoles. This could affect the PC version negatively. Well, at least it's not a fast-paced RTS... Maybe it won't be that bad. And maybe I should try the first Tropico that's been there collecting dust for several months already :P

Anyway, I want to walk those streets in the game.

Oh, and thanks for realizing the difference between 'exclusive' and 'console exclusive'.


@ the exclusive comment. It doen't matter anyway, because being on PC will NOT affect console sales. Look at Mass Effect. Especially number 2. If M$ market ME2 right the 360 will see a boost in sales. PC never affects 360 sales.

And Halo WArs, Civilization and most this gen strategy games disagree completely with the doesn't work on consoles claim. Fell C&C3 had better controls to use than say some adventure games have for their genre.



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KillerMan on 25 June 2009
selnor said:
Zkuq said:

Not good, strategy doesn't work too well on consoles. This could affect the PC version negatively. Well, at least it's not a fast-paced RTS... Maybe it won't be that bad. And maybe I should try the first Tropico that's been there collecting dust for several months already :P

Anyway, I want to walk those streets in the game.

Oh, and thanks for realizing the difference between 'exclusive' and 'console exclusive'.


@ the exclusive comment. It doen't matter anyway, because being on PC will NOT affect console sales. Look at Mass Effect. Especially number 2. If M$ market ME2 right the 360 will see a boost in sales. PC never affects 360 sales.

And Halo WArs, Civilization and most this gen strategy games disagree completely with the doesn't work on consoles claim. Fell C&C3 had better controls to use than say some adventure games have for their genre.

Offtopic: Though Civilization IV has ten times more content than console versions because managing all that would be impossible with controller. Yes...RTS games work somehow with controller but mouse is still a lot better.

Ontopic: Looks interesting. Maybe I will buy this to PC if it gets good grades from critics.



waron on 25 June 2009
KillerMan said:
selnor said:
Zkuq said:

Not good, strategy doesn't work too well on consoles. This could affect the PC version negatively. Well, at least it's not a fast-paced RTS... Maybe it won't be that bad. And maybe I should try the first Tropico that's been there collecting dust for several months already :P

Anyway, I want to walk those streets in the game.

Oh, and thanks for realizing the difference between 'exclusive' and 'console exclusive'.


@ the exclusive comment. It doen't matter anyway, because being on PC will NOT affect console sales. Look at Mass Effect. Especially number 2. If M$ market ME2 right the 360 will see a boost in sales. PC never affects 360 sales.

And Halo WArs, Civilization and most this gen strategy games disagree completely with the doesn't work on consoles claim. Fell C&C3 had better controls to use than say some adventure games have for their genre.

Offtopic: Though Civilization IV has ten times more content than console versions because managing all that would be impossible with controller. Yes...RTS games work somehow with controller but mouse is still a lot better.

Ontopic: Looks interesting. Maybe I will buy this to PC if it gets good grades from critics.

there's a difference between RTS games and games like Tropico - RTS relay mainly on your timing and how fast and precise you can do somethin(that's why mouse is important but not as much as people may think). games like Tropico, Sim City, Hotel Giant, Capitalism are more a simulation than a strategy(business simulation, city-building simulation etc.) and are much more deeper and relay more on actual strategy, planning, management and thinking than standard strategy games like Starcraft, Red Alert etc.

games like Starcraft and Halo Wars are like Burnout Paradise - simple, casual and mainstream while games like Capitalism, Tropico and Sim City are like Gran Turismo or Forza, niche, deep, complex and difficulty.