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Tropico 48/26/2023 ![]() Sid Meier was impressed with their work on Railroad Tycoon 2 (originally his IP). Tropico 2 did not do nearly as well as Tropico 1 and with the sale of the studio to Take-Two Interactive the decision was made to make a new giant super studio that would be called Firaxis Studio and run by Sid Meier. Tropico 2 was basically the full game with the expansions. The game saw two expansions in its first year and after a year another full game was released called Tropico 2. Simulators were doing notoriously bad in 2001, but somehow Tropico survived and did very well. Instead of trying to please people and expand you will be isolationist and exploit your people. Their concept was simple, instead of being God, a city planner, or a Roman dignitary you would instead be the dictator of a banana republic island nation. What they came up with would not only sell well, but would also shock as well. They had to catch people’s attention because building cities and building Rome had not only been done, but done to death. They knew in order to sell this game they would have to make a game that was ridiculous and very offensive. Tropico developers PopTop Software had wowed the world with Railroad Tycoon 2 and were going to try and take their hands on another simulator that was mostly abandoned… the building simulator. Some of these included Civilization, Morrowind and… Tropico. The developers who are really big today are those that put out really high quality games that promised a lot of play length. This new business model allowed people to churn out massive numbers of clones and see roughly the same sales on each.Īt this time no one really thought about how they were oversaturating the market with games and shooting themselves with an arrow to the knee. Instead of making good games with length to them developers were instead choosing to develop short adventures. Personal ambition and creativity was taken out of the hands of the developer and instead they were forced to churn out shooters and RPGs. Whereas many game projects in the past were interest pieces now people were making games to make money. Well getting away from games that are on sale or are really terrible it’s time to look at a full priced great game, Tropico 4.Ĭoming into a new millennium new forms of video games were taking off left and right.
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