Tropico 4: Gold Edition (2012) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Tropico 4: Gold Edition

Tropico 4 Gold Edition is the ultimate city building experience, including: Tropico 4 and the "Modern Times" expansion. As the president of a tiny Caribbean island, it's up to you to lead your country to…

75 9 November 2012 ESRB T

What Tropico 4: Gold Edition is

Tropico 4: Gold Edition is a real time strategy (rts) game developed by Haemimont Games and released in 2012. It was published by Feral Interactive. It is available on Xbox 360, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It carries an ESRB T age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Tropico 4 Gold Edition is the ultimate city building experience, including: Tropico 4 and the "Modern Times" expansion. As the president of a tiny Caribbean island, it's up to you to lead your country to greatness! Will you be a benevolent and tolerant leader, or a power-mad dictator? Will your economy rely on tourism, farming, big business or cheap sweatshops? The decisions you make will shape the future of your island, and more importantly, the size of your off-shore bank account.

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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are business and comedy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Tropico 4: Gold Edition holds a critic score of 75 out of 100. That places it above 49% of the 612 rated real time strategy (rts) games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2012 averaged 70, so it scored 5 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Tropico 4: Gold Edition launched on 9 November 2012, within three weeks of Far Cry 3, Hotline Miami, Assassin's Creed III and Halo 4. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Far Cry 3, Hotline Miami, Assassin's Creed III, Halo 4.

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