#TROPICO 5 MODS ESSENTIAL HOW TO#

Tropico 4 is a title which has the advantage of having a strong following, so no doubt the long-time fans of the series will be prepared to dive in and have a rough idea of what’s going on where and how to handle it. Still, having learnt the fundamentals by this point, it can’t be said there’s nothing rewarding about running a successful government in Tropico 4. A lot of actions have been squeezed into the poor Xbox 360 controller and lesser gamers’ thumbs might ache after the experience. Having spent nearly ten hours playing through four missions, a couple of sandbox games, and all of the tutorials, I’m just about getting used to the control scheme. The fundamental rule of console gaming, when it comes to games in which you’re expected to zip about from one stack of hay to the next, searching for that metaphorical needle, is that our controllers are just…ill-equipped to handle it.

Are you done? I bet that’s a short list in your head. Your journey from a low-level political player to the leader of a world power takes place in a number of pleasant locations wracked with natural disasters, political power games, awkward landscapes, and potentially lucrative resources.īefore you read any further, it might be an appropriate time for you to sit back and think about all the real-time-strategy and god games you’ve played on a console that were easy to get into.

Set in a fictional cluster of Caribbean islands, the nation of Tropico requires a firm hand to govern it and its people. Okie-dokie, we might think, You want us to govern a populace of unruly human subjects? How hard can that be? As it turns out it can be pretty damn challenging and not always in a good way. Tropico doesn’t just want us to build things and expand the boundaries of our great invented cities it wants us to get involved in the sticky business of hands-on government. Players get a nice seat up in the clouds and the opportunity to manage the ant nest that is civilisation, of one form or another, below them.īut the Tropico series has higher expectations for us gamers. It’s not exactly a hard thing to understand why so-called ‘god’ games are popular.

Tropico 5 mods essential