Tropico 4: In Politics (and Video Games), the Game Never Changes

A podcast should be posted up at PopMatters a little later on today. The topic will be cheating.

In the meanwhile, I reviewed Tropico 4 for the site and largely found myself writing about the problem with assigning numerical scores to games, as a result of trying to review this new Tropico correctly. Basically, the quandry for me is that this is a very good game, but it is also the same game that I played last year.

Is that good? Is that bad? What number represents "very, very good but..."?

Here's my unresolved thoughts on the matter:

Tropico 4: In Politics (and Video Games), the Game Never Changes