![]() Whereas you previously could mine gold, now you can process it into jewellery in order to make more money, rubber and steel can make cars, more elaborate entertainment buildings can be constructed, and new government buildings like banks and spy academies become available. Eventually, through either researching new processes, buying blueprints, or progressing to the next evolutionary period, you’ll unlock more advanced buildings and industries. You’ll begin with the basics, creating buildings to cut down trees, turn logs into planks, mine or harvest raw resources, house your people, and beautify the place with parks. However, I always refer to this particular series as a ‘resource management’ game, just like Railway Empire and Planetbase, as the gameplay is more about maintaining the flow of resources and keeping your little citizens happy, rather than simply building a city and watching it thrive on its own – like in games such as Sim City and Cities Skyline.Īs previously advised, you’ll work your way through four industrial periods, regardless of which campaign you decide to jump into, each one offering a new selection of buildings, research, trade and opportunities. Although technically taking the role of the infamous Presidente, you’re more akin to an unearthly being who floats above the world, overlooking everything from the creation of buildings to the routes the local buses take. Tropico 6 is a resource management game combined with the city builder, simulation, and God-game genres. This isn’t too much of an issue but it does mean you need to plan your buildings and resource gathering more efficiently than previously. As such, you can’t swap islands mid-campaign, the island set for that particular story will remain until you complete it and move on. In Tropico 6, each campaign has its own set of three or four mini-islands (which are on-screen at all times). Tropico 5 gave you the choice of two islands within its campaign, allowing you to alternate between them once you complete a mission – continuing on from when you were last on that island. Remember, that’s one of fifteen campaigns to play through. For a little more context, I played through the first campaign in its entirety. However, unlike the previous game, each of the fifteen campaign missions are all self-contained stories, set upon their own unique islands.Īs you can already see, Tropico 6 is a BEAST, in comparison to Tropico 5. Tropico 6 gives you the choice of fifteen campaigns (which are gradually unlocked), each of which are split up into three or four chapters. Tropico 5 consisted of fifteen missions which were split into two, taking you through the four industrial periods whilst you follow an interesting and rather long campaign which would easily last around fifteen hours or so. Tropico 6 isn’t like Tropico 5 when it comes to the ‘story’. ![]() However, as you’ll find out, I was gladly proven wrong with this initial thought as Tropico 6 takes everything that was great about the previous management sims and squashes them together into a rather brilliant package. Now, finally, Tropico 6 has arrived, this time from developers Limbic Entertainment, with a base game much bigger than the entirety of Tropico 5 (including all of its DLC) – it’s bloody massive!Īs the reigns were handed to a new developer, rather than the team responsible for Tropico 3, 4 and 5, I was a little concerned at first that the latest game in the series may not hold up against the previous titles. It’s been five long years since the release of Tropico 5 on the PlayStation 4, a game which I can’t even imagine how many hours I’ve spent building up my empire, only to watch it fall because I forgot to build a fire station before I ran out of money! Within that time, Kalypso Media and Haemimont Games released a number of DLC packs to further enhance our enjoyment and prolong the gameplay. ![]()
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