Just tried this, and have yet to see a thread on it.

Tropico 3 is a strategy/sim game in the vein of Civilization Revolution or Sim City.

I must say, this game went from being nowhere on my radar to a buy for me. The game play is excellent. The controls are a bit...Overwhelming, but after a try or two, you start to get it.

The goal of the game is to run your own island dictatorship. Yes, there are elections, but you can always rig them if the competitors are too strong. You produce exports to help run your economy. You get a large amount of political and economic freedoms with your island nation, which is pretty neat. You can go from an iron-handed dictatorship with close ties to the USSR to a libertarian, capitalistic paradise.

You get 2 scenarios in the demo. I played for over an hour on the 1st one and didn't beat it (had to leave prior to finishing it).

I'd reccomend that if your itching for something a bit more...Sim-intensive, then this game looks really good. Review scores have been mediocre (76%) but I am unsure what they have against this game that I'm not seeing. The game is well polished, and very cool.

Any other VGC-ers play this one yet? It debuts in the US in a month.

30 views and no responses? Bah.

360 VGCers are lacking comittment to sim games

I tried, then the download went corrupt and I couldn't play it.

i did was a pretty good game i actually never played a tropico game can you tell me where the other games appeared?? thanks.

Going to DL this and post back with my thoughts!

1 & 2 are both exclusive to PC as far as I remember.

Both Tropicos were PC exclusive. Tropico 3 is X360/PC only. The PC version was released late last year, AFAIK.

Tropico is one of my favourite games series. I did download the PC demo, but it wouldn't work with my graphics card unfortunately.

I might give it a go on 360 though.

I played the demo, and it was so much fun. It is also releasing at a budget price which is nice :)

I downloaded it, but haven't given it a try yet.  Will post my thoughts once I try it.