The missions themselves can be a bit hand-holdy as they tell you exactly what you need to do, but it gives the campaign its structure as as to not get too far off-track or otherwise distracted. Later missions will ask and expect more from you. Over the course of the 15 story missions, you’ll be tasked with various objectives that do sometimes repeat, such as asking for x-amount in exports, attracting a certain number of tourists, or making friends with the President of the United States.
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The Campaign, or story to Tropico 5 is delivered well, featuring a full cast of characters from prior games in the series as well as caricatures of real-world people of the time. Although, it does seem possible still, as there’s an achievement for reaching the modern era before 1960. The developers took that idea and expanded it making the eras work in tandem with the dynasty to elongate the gameplay into interesting ways allowing for a better feeling of progression and less anachronistic. Tropico 4 had a post-release DLC titled “Modern Times”, which touched on bringing the game to the modern world with updated buildings and technologies. Eras allow you to take your own “El Presidente” across four different times over the past century.
Introduced to the series for the first time are eras. As you progress, you can purchase levels using your Swiss bank account to enhance them, let them retire, have children to be heirs who can be added to your dynasty that maxes out for a total of seven slots.
This creates the beginnings of your dynasty. You now create your own character, with many zany clothing and hair options. You may think this takes away from the personality or charm of the series, but it’s those who surround you during your rule that fill in that gap. No longer are you able to play as Fidel Castro, Eva Peron, Che Guevara, etc. The first thing you’ll notice upon starting a new game is there aren’t any prefabricated personas to take on. For as feature-rich, improved, beautiful it is, the new additions that make it different from it’s predecessors, still ends up feeling awfully similar when you actually sit down to play it. The French novelist Alphonse Karr wrote, “The more things change, the more they stay the same”.