Good evening. You are listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I'm your host, Rob Zakene.

With me tonight, believe it or not, the full panel. Troy Goodfellow, welcome to the show. I am always happy to be back where I belong. And Julian, it's been so long since I've seen you. Good to have you on the show. It's been like eight hours. And I can't believe this constitutes a full panel, the three of us. It's like old times. Yeah, pretty much.

If we had Bruce, it'd be... And I can't believe this constitutes a full panel to three of us. It's like old times.

Yeah, pretty much.

If we had, if we had Bruce, it'd be a truly full panel.

But again, he's in a regular panelist.

So tonight, in honor of Tropigo 4, which I've been playing a lot of this week,

we're going to be talking about Tropico and city builders. So, you know,

to get us started here, Troy, I know you've been playing a bit of Tropico 4 as well, and you're

more familiar with the full series than I am. So, you know, could you start us off with maybe a

little comparison, like what's new here, our new issues fixed? What does Tropico 4 bring to the table?

Tropical 4 really is kind of a Tropical 3 plus.

It is very much the same game,

and that many of the graphics look the same,

only they're a little bit higher-res.

I think the interface hasn't changed that much either,

except for now you get faction quests that pop up and you can address those,

and they can increase or decrease your standing with different groups.

It looks like rebels have been souped up.

One of the big problems in the other tropical games was, you know, there was really no need

to be a brutal banana republic dictator because the rebels were kind of milly-mouthed and didn't do much anyway.

Now they're actually kind of a threat, which is nice to see.

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