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Pirates like areas that are well defended, are indifferent toward areas designed to produce fear, and dislike order. Three environmental factors strongly influence the happiness and productivity of each island inhabitant: the level of defense, the level of fear, and the balance between order and chaos. It is in the need to account for these different reactions that Pirate Cove is most unlike the original life simulation, and more like a puzzle game. This is very important, because Pirate Cove's two types of inhabitants, captives and pirates, react very differently according to the environments through which they walk. Pirate Cove's new system of instant road creation gives players much more control over the way their subjects move around the island. Even though traffic can be easily steered by the wise placement of roads, Pirate Cove characters have good AI and never fall victim to the woes of Impressions' simplistic one-way walkers. Actually it might be more accurate to say this Tropico sequel plays like we always wished the Impressions games did. This change makes Pirate Cove reminiscent of an old Impressions city-building game, such as Caesar or Pharaoh.

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Roads are now free of cost and they can be laid down instantly, so the player doesn't need to spend resources or wait several game months for workers to get around to building them. Island citizens, both captives and pirates, use these roads almost exclusively to move around the island. Unlike the slow but more realistic development model of the original Tropico, nearly all structures in Pirate Cove must be built with road access. As insignificant as it may sound, the most important gameplay modification concerns roads. The characters in Pirate Cove are designed to fit the gameplay - not the other way around - and because of this, it is easier to think of them theoretically, as pieces to be placed around a game board, instead of little virtual people with human wants and needs.ДЄside from the setting and characters, a few changes to the gameplay itself also make Pirate Cove feel more abstract, and less like a direct representation of island management. It could be said that these pirates and captives have even more personality than the inhabitants of the first Tropico game, but in the same way that a comic book superhero has more personality than a real-life police officer.

It is not that the sequel's characters are bland. The odd mix of racy subject matter and political correction in Pirate Cove is entertaining and consistent, but lacks the straight-faced presentation that added an edgy layer of authenticity to the original Tropico. They don't represent an accurate simulation of 17th century Caribbean culture certainly not in the same way that the original Tropico put forth its 20th century version of the region. The Pirate Cove characters seem designed primarily to be fun and comfortable to play with.

The game's main characters are a homogenized mix of actual pirates from the 18th and 19th centuries and made-up sailors from popular works of fiction. Much more than the original Tropico, Pirate Cove takes liberties with its setting and characters, presenting believable history when it's convenient to the overall game design and unabashed revision when it is not. This is due, in part at least, to the way the game treats its subject matter. A few, seemingly minor tweaks make this version of Tropico feel less like a social simulation, and more like an elaborate puzzle game. It delivers a different kind of gameplay. Yet in spite of its undeniable expansion-pack feel, Pirate Cove delivers more than just a new setting. This may not seem to be the case at first, since many of the sequel's changes are subtle, and fans of the original will immediately recognize the graphical style and gameplay conventions.

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While it may not shiver the timbers of devoted Cold War dictators, Pirate Cove does a mite more than simply slap an eye patch and a peg leg on the old Tropico game engine.

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