Tropico and Tropico 2 are both old favourites of mine. If you like SimCity, but wish you could intimate a bit more with your citizens and get a bit more hands-on in the details of your city, Tropico is the game for you! In Tropico you become "El Presidente" of your own little Caribbean island! Your goal, essentially, is to build a thriving economy and city on the island. The graphics are OK for a game from 2000, but the game play is very abosrbing, and the dialogues between you and your (male voiceover of a ) secretary make the game quite interesting.

Tropico 2 functions a lot like Tropico, but the premise is quite different. In it, you are supposed to be a pirate, who makes most of his money raiding the seas from your Caribbean jewel of an island. The graphics are a bit better than the original Tropico, but gameplay is not quite as diverse. In the original Tropico, you can be a peaceful leader who pleases his people, a military dictator who keeps the island under lockdown, a business tycoon in industry or tourism, and even a white-collar criminal who embezzles money for his retirement. In Tropico 2 however, you ALWAYS have to satisfy pirates, ALWAYS keep prisoners hopeless, and ALWAYS cruise the Caribbean to capture plunder and make money. Not that it isn't still interesting, but it's just not as diverse.

Getting both games - including the tourist attraction expansion pack for the original Tropico - for $6.95 USD is a great bargain if you like real-time city building.

The graphics are quite nice for a ten year old game. We have enough detail to see what the people roughly look like (basically what their profession is) as well as a number of different buildings and shapes to the island. Ancient ruins, historical forts and other items of interest are quite well designed to be eye catching as you scroll over your island. And all the man made structures are quite well designed to be 50's style constructs. It does seem a little out of place for a 50's era apartment building to be constructed when the game is up to the 90's but that also fits the stereotype they are mocking.

There is no specific story to the game, outside of that set by the scenario, and most of those scenario guidelines are only a handful of sentences each. Not that you really need one, as this is a fairly nice sim.

i remember playing this game years ago, and having so much fun on it, if you want a game where you can build and have control over almost all elements in a game, this is a game for you, obviously theres apdated games, and newer ones, but for the price its amazing, first class!!

Tropico is a clever city-builder with a bit of a twist to it. Tropico 2 puts you in the somewhat more interesting role of 'pirate haven governor', and has some rather unique challenges - how many other city-building games have you actively capturing slaves and then deciding if you should free them or ransom them?

I sank a lot of hours into these titles, and had some good fun in the process.

Before I even get to the core of the game - yes, it's old. That means, very dated 2d graphics and no widescreen support. But the graphics actually aged well, 2d never gets old and if you overlook the slow resolution, the style certainly has it's charm. Just don't overlook the game because of it's graphics.

The pack itself consists of the first Tropico, all its expansions and the second Tropico. Both games are basically dictatorship simulations, similiar to the Anno series or The Settlers. You control an island, construct buildings and manage your city.

The setting of the first Tropico is a typical Caribbean dictatorship including tourism, russian missiles and sweat shops. It's complex, yet easy accessible, charming and has a great soundtrack that will haunt you even weeks after playing the game.

The second game takes you back in time and lets you control a pirate settlement. You build taverns, try to satisfy the arriving pirates and even send out raiding parties. It's very original, even after all those years, has a great soundtrack and is just awesome.

The pack is cheap, fun, and timeless. Get it!

Running a banana republic has never been so much fun since 1950 ! Running a pirate colony has never been so much fun since 1600 ! The Tropico Reloaded package will suck hundred of hours out of your life as you try to find your place in the Caribbean as either a tinpot dictator or a notorious pirate king. While Tropico 3, which is essentially a remake of Tropico 1, boasts better graphics and some more fancy schmoozy features, both Tropico 1 and 2 has the advantages of running so smoothly on even crappy laptops and remain unique offers in their genre. One of the finest way to spend $2.39 I've ever known of !

I had so much fun in the past with this game. Ever wanted to be an abusive president? Play Tropico and simply imprison your political opponents or go ahead and order them killed for good measure. Create a workers paradise or a capitalistic empire, your choice.

Personally I enjoy the first more than the pirate themed sequel, but that's just me.

Games like this a probably my favourite, and the Tropico series is no exception. I personally like 2 more than 1 but for the price it's a great deal!

Its a shame the game doesn't support higher resolutions but then they are rather old so what can you expect?

Overall this Tropico pack is excellent and well worth the money.

I you played the old Tropico games before, but havent the copys anymore. This package is heaven.

Some issues with the graphic cards because of old "hardware support" but works most of the time.

I originally bought both these games in a combo-pack at Walmart but alas the CD for Tropico 2 is scratched up enough I decided to hop on this Tropico sale.

To sum it up I still play these games since I was a kid and have gotten better but this is a pair of HARD games. You will lose time just trying to learn how to run an island, either as a pirate or cold-war banana republic dictator. There is so many aspects of gameplay I can't describe them here, but if you love building something up and seeing if your planning actually works then play this game, it is a great piece of gaming history.

This is a great offer, if you were the fan of Tropico original... In fact for this cheap price, you are going to get 100h of fun and combinations in 2 games and 1 addon.

This game is economy/state simulation of an imaginary island nation, where you construct buildings, issue edicts, go on elections and many many other things... This is a game where every person on the island (there can be as many as 1000!) have its own unique set of statistic... (Optimization of this game is at the peak on the market those days, and even now!) Ambient and music are also something to look at!

The game is really two. Tropico and Tropico 2 being vastly different takes on the maniacal ruling of a Caribbean island. While the programs might not be the newest, the humor never gets old. Reading the thoughts of my newly liberated citizens or the implausibly shapely female pirates is a much-needed dose of humor.

It can be a bit complex to manage but one gets sucked into the world after a while. This is my third copy of Tropico and Tropico 2 is a worthy (but small) successor.

This is classic game is so much fun that I prefer it over its sequels. The graphics may be outdated, but the point and ideas behind it still remain fascinating and challenging. You rule your own island being any kind of person you wish. The paths you can take are limitless. If the foundation of political ideas is your foremost fascination this game is must for your collection. If you prefer the sequels, go for it. The reason I like this version better is that its sequel's intriguing 3D graphics took too much of my focus off political matters. This version works for me is remains the best.

A lighthearted political simulator set in a South American banana republic. Real time, overhead view. Your goal is to manage a brand new banana republic: Set up buildings and infrastructure, enact political ordinances, and keep your people healthy, safe, and happy. It's not a very serious game, though, so don't expect a lot of complexity on the political side.

The Tropico games are fun simulation games, through and through. This means you should expect a relatively slow-paced and complicated game, and Tropico definitely delivers. There are all sorts of things to manage, from the macro scale including what buildings to make to a smaller, micromanagement scale, including how much employees are paid or what employees should be, well, employed. It's fun just playing around and seeing what works or what doesn't, as well as playing with different 'styles' to determine what kind of dictator you are. As a fan of the old Maxis' Sim series, this game brings me back but adds a bit more 'personality' into the game due to all the small things you can manage.

Fairly addictive game play and simple to learn, I thoroughly enjoy this game. The fact it runs on Vista is a major plus. The price also cannot be beat.

The game is simply a cross between Sim City/Anno 1701 series. You build a town, drop buildings here and there, and rake in the cash. The added elements of repressing your people, while keeping them content adds a large amount of depth.

Tropico was first released in 2001, so it was with some hesitation that I made this purchase. The price, in particular, is a bit high for a game of this age: $10 would be more appropriate. I have been very pleasantly surprised, however. The graphics are surprisingly very nice: the game designers did an excellent job to create quality graphics that have withstood the test of time. The game supports resolutions up to 1600x1200, where the graphics are very crisp and smooth.

Gameplay is very enjoyable, and it seems safe to say that there hasn't been an analogous game to Tropico in the years since its release. This is a simulator that is fairly unique in that every building created has a *meaningful* impact, as opposed to a game like Sim City, for example, where buildings are pretty meaningless. Tropico is somewhat similar to "Victoria" from Paradox Interactive in regards to population management controls, where the mix of ideology and population needs are very similar to Victoria's POP system.

Tropico 1 and its expansion pack are probably my favorite city building. Watching a small island colony grow up is fun, but the flexibility of the economies and the depth of character are what make this game work. The game is limited to sand box type games and scenarios but that should be more than enough game play options. As Tropico 2 added a champaign mode but after getting the hang of the mechanics it is just dull.

Tropico 2 is a much different game. Instead of most actions have immediate positive or negative repercussions all of the effects feel slowed down. Like Tropico 1 in a viscous fluid. However, it isn't nearly as bad as I have been lead to believe by other sources. Managing cities comes down to having slave areas and pirate areas and late game difficulty comes down to, at least for me, simply having enough room. Not to say that the game is easy. Mistakes in build order hurt a lot more in this sequel than in the predecessor. Managing dozens of pirates all with their own "levels" as well as several different ships is rewarding. Seeing pirate houses evolve from shacks into mansions is my favorite feature because the thing I hated most about the first game was having to build up houses for my people. It is streamlined here by pirates automatically leveling their homes.

Massive bonus points in Tropico 2 for religion being a way to pacify slaves.