Its only an update for Tropico 3 with little new buildings and issues....

User Rating: 6.5 | Tropico 4 PC
By chunyu19 | Review Date:
What is the most annoying is, I have already complaint for many times, the MAP is too small. It was not playing like Simcity 4 or other Town planning game with huge map to develop, but a tiny island with mountains, lakes and trees. After 10 or more hours of developments, the Island will be fully covered with buildings, farmlands.....what else ? nothing ! There is no land reclamation....is that means GAME OVER? or simply destory all Deleux houses into public housing so as to let more citizens to live?

Then, for those new buildings, what is the purpose for these NEW buildings? Its nothing at all, just some new buildings for more choices or fun. At the same time, the OLD buildings are not improved since Tropico 3.

I don't see any NEW ideas to attract NEW gamers to buy this game, with limited improvement on performance, little new buildings and issues .....but the OLD tiny unenjoyable map and limited development totally destory my interests in buying this Tropico 4.

After I wrote this review, I replayed the game again in Sandbox mode. I had used a Huge Map with little mountains. First two hours, I built a lot of farmlands and industries, some basic facilities to keep the citizen happy. Then, it bought me arround $150,000 cash in every export. Then, I built tourist facilities, attractions, entertainments.......Ok ! Arround SIX hours playing time, all buildings available in the game were built and the remaining task was .....wait and develop using the same strategy....

During the gameplay, I found those Citizen did not attending High School / College at all, they would all attend the Grade School only. No matter what I did, High School / College will only have 2-4 students only. During the middle of the gameplay, my island attracted many immigrants, but all of them would prefer building small ugly houses between buildings, instead of living in FREE Tenant Buildings.

The A.I. is stupid enough to kick you out:
Like Garage, I have already built a new one beside it, but the old Garage still overloaded.
I have to build many Teammaster offices in order to convey the raw materials / products.
Motels, at the middle of the game was expired, where NO tourists will live in Motels anymore, but Deluxe Hotels and the only Skyscaper hotel were always FULL.
For College / Professional citizen, you could only obtain them through IMPORT (pay for them) as there were only very very limited number produced in your Island and they'll never matched your development rate.

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