For example, a gambling den emanates chaos, making its surrounding area more pleasant for the pirates who patronize it. But a functioning gambling den also requires captive laborers, who will be more tempted to try to escape each time they pass through its chaotic aura on their way to work. Likewise, the player's pirate mansion emanates fear and order, which is great for the sublimation of nearby captives, but discouraging for pirates who might be assigned to work there as guards.
Aside from the obvious but mostly inconsequential differences in content, and the minor but far-reaching modifications to the methods of island development, much of what made the original Tropico so engaging is left intact here. The dynamic island ecology, the building-by-building methods of labor management, and even the impressively accessible online journal of game information all look, feel, and function just as they did in the original game.
Like any pirate worth his grog, Tropico 2 commandeers the best assets of its predecessor. It adapts to what is already there far more as often than it revolutionizes, or builds anything new of its own.
It is probably for the best that these proven game elements are unchanged, but it also leads to the most obvious complaint about this release. In spite of its new content and subtle tweaks, Pirate Cove will not feel like a new game to anyone who played the original. It will feel like a mod. A clever, polished mod -- a mod that would have made a fine retail expansion pack -- but a mod nonetheless, and not worthy of its status as a full-fledged sequel.
Tropico fans with the proper abstract mindset and sense of humor will find a treasure chest of new challenges in this safe harbor, but may be a little disappointed at how closely the sequel follows the course set by the original instead of presenting new adventures in uncharted waters.
Graphics: Graphics are of the same style and quality as those of the original Tropico game. New artwork and animations are entertaining enough, and appropriate to the pirate theme. Sound: Character acknowledgments and voice-overs are plentiful and good. Pirate Cove doesn't offer the truly superlative selection of songs found in the original game, but it comes close.
The soundtrack features an upbeat mix of steel drums and chanteys that never seems to grow old. Enjoyment: Provides more than just a face-lift to the original Tropico, but not a whole lot more. Players may have more direct control over their islands' inhabitants, but less emotional attachment to them.
The 2D isometric, tile-based graphics look even more tired than they did in the original game. They have some nice details, but they are not nearly as absorbing as Stronghold 's cut-away building look, which would have worked really well here.
But the damage that Tropico 2 causes on the eye, it makes up for with its solid gameplay that forces you, at all times, to consider the repercussions of each action you take. I always harp on about the fun factor in a game, because above everything else, I think this is the predominant feature in any good game and that is something Tropico 2 delivers on.
Whether you're press-ganging captives into becoming pirates, breeding parrots, or resurrecting the dead to become zombie workers, you'll have a lot of fun playing at being pirates. If You Hang around coves, then you're either a pirate, a smuggler, or a privileged English schoolchild having a jolly, dandelion and burdock-fuelled adventure. Tropico 2: Pirate's Cove takes the management themes of the original game, and adds the familiar twist of being all cool and evil.
Which makes it a good month for cheapskates who get off on lording it up over AI routines. Pirate's Cove isn't a huge leap from the original, using the same engine for a "dated, even for " feel.
But that means you can run it on a cheap laptop, which is great - more people should spend their commute overseeing a backwards economy of seafaring plunder and establishing a black market. As far as strategy and scope are concerned, Pirate's Cove is more limited than its predecessor, mainly because of its piratical theme. The original game could have you specialising in tourism -and pirates have, throughout the years, been consistently indifferent to the tourist industry.
If you're happy with trading a sense of choice for those cool hankies, Tropico 2 still has plenty of depth and gameplay that hasn't walked the plank. Browse games Game Portals. Tropico 2: Pirate Cove.
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