Greetings, ladies and gentlemen! While all the blog reins are amended, reviewing the new Wulf, I decided to a little fucking and write a review on yet, not-off-world-to-group ™, so almost unnoticed by anyone, namely, namely, namely Tropico 5!
The fact is that when the next AAA-class project appears, well, or simply well-advertised, tons of Lestiples are laid out on YouTube both from the top masters of the microphone and mouse, and from the young followers of this genre (remember the output of South Park’a?). In the case of Wulf, the same thing happened. No, Lestples are not so many, but enough, I want to tell you. Searching on the same resource the videos on Tropico 5, I, to my surprise, found almost nothing. But this is the situation at the time of writing, so if you already have all the cracks of all the cracks of these notorious flights, you really do not angry, okay?
I must warn, until it’s too late that in the review I express for the most part their subjective opinion regarding this game (I do not impose it on anyone), but I try to be at least a little more objective, Well, in general, as always. Well, let’s get down!
What is any part of the Tropico series in general? First of all, this is a urban planning simulator in the decorations of the tropical island, lost somewhere between two Americas, where we have to ensure the perceptive of this island in the skin of a newly made dictator. Such a concept is present in all parts of Tropico, with the exception of the second part, where we play the king of the pirates, but the essence is the same. Naturally, the fifth of this concept also follows.
“Oh … Caribbean … rich and untouched lands – my new house. How beautiful and promising here!"
Now that a brief transmission of the essence for neophytes is completed, we can proceed to the game itself.
So, I will begin, as befits an “true connoisseur” of interactive entertainment, with graphics. The game has a pretty beautiful, pleasant graphene ™ that corresponds to the style of the game. Here is the abundance of warm sunny colors, and the colorful and sharply released green against the background of the sand, in general there are almost no complaints from my side. Unless the water upset me a little, but it’s not scary, she’s not so terrible there. In the end, tropico we love far from a graphics.
And how do you like the water?
Since I started with technical aspects, why not talk about the sound part? The sound in the game is good, music is in place. You see, Latin American music was always an important element in Tropico, in Tropico 5 it was brought, do not worry. Although they could have more, and in the four Muzyak rolled me more … Well, okay.
Now let’s talk about the most delicious – gameplay. In general, it is practically identical from the past games of the series, but this is only at first glance. The developers introduced simply a tremendous (for such a conservative series as tropico) layer in places of controversial features.
Such loading screens. Beautiful.
Let’s start with the creation of the character, El President That Beshe. And here I immediately have many complaints. Firstly, there are too few people and costumes there, even very. But this is understandable, I touched the DLS, but it was embarrassed that even the name could not be written yourself, choose from the proposed. Of course, there are a lot of them, but, in my opinion, this is a strange approach. But the most important disappointment is not this. Remember how in all (absolutely all) parts of Tropico we chose a set of personal characteristics (disadvantages and dignity) for our president, the past, the path of coming to power, etc. This gave not only certain bonuses in the game, on the basis of which it was possible to build a strategy for the development of our Banana Republic, but gave a bridgehead for some kind of play. If you want to arrange real theocracy on your island, a kind of Caribbean vatican? Please! – Take the "chosen one/ku of family values" and "religious". Maybe you want to build communism? As much as you like! -Take the “writer of left-wing views” and “communist-bunter”, or “KGB agent”. Or to be a real dictator and drown their subjects in the blood? – Take a “veteran” or “generalissimo” along with the “military coup”. Well, you understand. In tropico 5 this is not. Seriously. All this sacrificed skills and management. That is, your president can only have one so -called “skill” such as “administrator”, “celebrity”, and t.D. These skills are essentially circumcised virtues from the previous parts of the game. Moreover, other (not all) NPS on the island possess these very skills! Now our character differs from them only outwardly, they even cannot be controlled. And these skills are needed so that you can assign a character with them, the manager of a building, in order to slightly improve him-for me this is not the right innovation at all, in vain the old system was ruined for him.
The character creation screen looks like this.
Speaking of characters. For the whole game you may have not one ale to the president, but as many as seven! Introduced a system of dynasties in which, as I said, it can be as many as seven of your offspring. Why is it necessary? I have no idea. Everything would be fine if our first president had been dying over time a little, then there would be a meaning, but not! All presidents will live and wander around the city, only one of them will rule, and the others, as ordinary NPS, can be arranged by managers. Just everything. The idea seems to be promising, but ruined by shitty realization, I do not see any meaning in dynasties.
My little but friendly dictatorial dynasty.
Bet Foxx casino />If we talk further about the change of generations, then you need to mention another new chip of the game – an era. Yes, now we are not limited by the Cold War. There are only four eras in the game, namely, “colonial”, “world wars”, actually “Cold War” and “modernity”. They differ significantly from each other – from NPS models to accessible buildings and decrees, as well as planning the economy. For example, in the colonial era (which, by the way, can last forever), we depend on the crown (the only foreign power with which we can contact at this time), since it is from it that our powers of the Governor of the island come from it, and in order to preserve it is necessary to fulfill the stupid orders of his royal Majesty, such as sending logs to a giant bonfire, massive food for the enemies of the crown, so that theyfattened and laveled and t.p. Since our island is a colony at this time, we cannot develop industry, because the metropolis needs cheap raw materials for the production of goods, so we are forced to build a raw materials economy. In the "World Wars" the situation is already changing. Each new era offers new rules of the game that should be observed. A very interesting innovation.
Apparently, because the player can start from any era and cut a number of features in creating a character, although it was possible for each era to make unique ways of coming to power, character traits and so on ..
Another innovation is "research". For the first time, technologies appeared in the game that open access to new buildings and decrees. The chip is dubious, but still.
But how these studies look like.
A few words I will say about decrees and buildings. Let’s start with the decrees. There are enough of them in the game, there are common ones, as well as their own for each era. In general, there are almost no new ones, I act almost as much as in the past parts. I can only notice the possibility of issuing bonds, that is, borrowing from other powers, and then, accordingly, you will have to pay a percentage of this debt until you buy bonds back.
I am preparing to pay the debt. This is not easy to rule!
Buildings in tropicos is also darkness. Most of them are no different from analogues from previous parts, except for the appearance. However, I want to highlight what has been changed, so to speak, the NPS counting system that can use the building. Now it’s just a line in the resume of the building. This solved many problems that were inherited from the very first part. For example, when the NPS did not want to settle in a residential building, even if the apartments were free, only because housing is far from work. This gave rise to a huge amount homeless people homeless people in the presence of free free housing. Hardly!
Here is a screenshot for clarity.
Well, the final chord on gameplay will be about the constitution. The Constitution can be adopted after the transition to the era of world wars and the study of the same technology. In fact, it is the same decrees, only the constitution. Well, and if we say correctly, part of the decrees was made to the constitution. There, for example, you can indicate which sections of the population (men, rich people, etc.D.) may vote in the elections, state religion, form of military duty and other. For me, it is somewhat useless, because all this could be done in the form of decrees, but still the constitution gives a little wager, which we shamelessly took before that.
And how would you do?
I also want to note the humor, I would even say the satire present in this game. Here you have all sorts of playful descriptions of buildings, and caricature images of the characters, as well as their actions. What are the Communists who arrange revolutions for the sake of revolutions, and competing, who have a more correct revolution. Or stereotypical capitalists who seek to earn literally everything and on everything. And I’m not even talking about numerous references to films, games, and so on, which involuntarily cause a slight smile.
Somewhere I already heard that.
Sometimes curious thoughts are found.
And you know any jokes about the embassies?
Speaking of humor, one cannot help but say a few words and the plot. He tells how we will improve the world with the help of some secret order that has a great influence in this very world (whether Masons is an hour?). The campaign is also full of humor and satire. Like you, for example, a mission where you need to buy Switzerland whole? In general, the campaign, especially as learning is not more, but no more.
And here is my sudden insert about the translation of the game. What can I say? They voiced soundly, I have no comments, besides Nadmodgs The translators managed not to poke the jokes and references of the original, and for this, a fat plus can be delivered to the localizers. However, not without unpleasant jambs, but they are not significant.
Each new tropico in Russia has a new localizer, but they all brilliantly translate the word “General”, as “general” or “common”, although, in my opinion, damn it, it is obvious that the word translates as “general”.
And this is our faithful adviser to Penultimo, migrated from the past part. However, since then he managed to mature – he grew his mustache and found the general cap.
Well, how can we forget about multiplayer? This is the first game of the series where a full -fledged multi -user game appeared. Speaking briefly, in the cartoon we can cooperate and compete with other island states, arrange minor wars because of nothing and in every possible way to have fun. Funny! In general, this is one of the strongest aspects of the five in principle. Personally, I dreamed of multiplayer from the very first part.
But one cannot but pay attention to unpleasant small jambs, such as a meager assortment of jewelry and decorations (fountains, barricades, anti-tank hedgehogs), and the statues were generally removed (I liked to put statues to myself), large decorative buildings such as a mausoleum or eternal fire are not in principle, for some reason it was now possible to cancel the elections (in the four it was possible), and I especially annoyed me with the spaceship in time, time of time, time of time, timeWhen the Nazis, for example, begin the hunt for Einstein in 1920, the French ask for help in the fight against the invaders in 1915, or they inform me of the October Revolution in 1934, in May. I’m thinking if I will ever fall about the revolution at least in 1917, I don’t even ask that it was in November. Such oversights spoil the impressions of the game a little.
Finally, these parasites can be forced to pay for healthcare!
And even for food!
Summing up, I will say that the game nevertheless came out very good and high -quality, despite the shortcomings described above, because, in the end, numerous advantages and the good old gameplay outweigh them. In addition, I think, many of these unpleasant moments will be taken into account and corrected in DLS and additions (about Modern Times for Tropico 4, I think there is no point in). I recommend this game to all connoisseurs of the Tropico series, and the rest who wants to join the strategies of such a genre!
I hope you mastered my review. He, even surprisingly, turned out to be very long. I wrote so much, probably due to the fact that tropico is my favorite game without five minutes, so I wanted to describe each new pixel in more detail. Well, that’s all. Thanks for the time given.
My assessment is to play:
Graphics/engine – 7/10
Multiplayer – 10/10
Optimization – 9/10
Atmosphere – 7/10
Gameplay – 10/10
Difficulty – 7/10
The plot is 6/10
The result is 8/10