Almost awesome
posted by Foxxbird (ERIE, PA) Sep 12, 2010
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Tropico 3 was a well-designed game with detailed mechanics and numerous strategical approaches to similar problems. At first, I was enveloped in a way I haven't experienced since the early days of SimCity.
Then the bugs started showing up.
There are no fewer than five different ways to freeze the game, each caused by events that are not under the player's control. There is also a bug which can corrupt your save file if your city is above 500 citizens (normal population in most missions). The game's producers seem to have given up on fixing these game-breaking errors, and after losing five or six games I had been playing for hours, I gave up on them. I am truly disappointed, as Tropico was clearly cut out to be one of the best-crafted sim games I have seen, but any seasoned gamer will agree that missions that take 3-4 hours to beat absolutely cannot be subjected to frequent freezes and file corruption.
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