be unintuitive, he highlighted its "strong economic engine, [and] well-balanced gameplay." IGN went on to name Tropico 2 "IGNPC's Game of the Month" for April 2003. Conversely, Jason Cross of Computer Games Magazine called Tropico 2s interface superior to that of Tropico, but he felt that the game featured "too much interface and busy work." He found it dated compared to current strategy games, and concluded, "Tropico 2 doesn't come through with enough swashbuckling, ship-boarding flair." PC Formats Matt Avery summarized Tropico 2 as "short-lived fun with information overload in place of interaction." Although he remarked that "statisticians will have a field day" with the game's detailed economics, he disliked Tropico 2s lack of direct control over units, and found the overall product "rather limited." Writing for PC Gamer US, Stephen Poole criticized the game's combination of piracy and management gameplay, which he found awkward, unrealistic and unsatisfying. He also argued that the game's musical style is incongruous with its setting. Poole concluded that Tropico 2s theme is "barely a skin-deep covering on a sim that could just as easily have been made about the ACME Widget Factory." Tropico 2 was the final entry in the series to be published by Take-Two Interactive. No further Tropico games were greenlighted until November 2008, when Kalypso Media bought the Tropico intellectual property from Take-Two and announced Tropico 3, developed by Bulgaria's Haemimont Games. The game was released in 2009. Afterward, Haemimont Games developed Tropico 4 (2011) and Tropico 5 (2014), both published by Kalypso. Tropico 6, developed by Limbic Entertainment and published again by Kalypso Media, was announced in June 2017. It was released for PC on March 29, 2019. References Notes Footnotes External links 2003 video games City-building games Gathering of Developers games MacOS games Single-player video games Tropico (series) Video game sequels Video games about pirates Video games developed in the United States Video games set on fictional islands Video games set in the Caribbean Video games with isometric graphics Windows games