Screenshots!

[MrPopov]

nice pic pugwash! I want to see more!

 

[Darth_Pugwash]

Ask and ye shall recieve Senor Popov!

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A couple more spoilered for size again.

 

[Maniacal]

That's no spoiler!

Also, ACTUAL ROADS!

 

[Darth_Pugwash]

Lol, put a quote instead of spoilar tags.

Yes, comrade Scamp, ROADS, as you can see Tropico is a nation on the grow! It's not at all just a front for my real aim of shunting funds into my Swiss bank account at all.

Actually that top pic was kind of a fun one, I managed to pretty well pimp out my industry so at one point I had over 300,000 $, but I went crazy building stuff and the money began draining away due to the upkeep or something. I had already won by that point though, so I took the decision to retire and, in the finest political tradition, let my successor deal with the incoming debt.

 

[GenMarshall]

Hmm, this Tropico 3 looks quite interesting.

 

[MrPopov]

I noticed the year is 1999 in the top screenshot. is the USSR still intact or does the game give historical events of its breakup?

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

What a gorgeous game. It's sucks that the closest I'll ever come to playing it is watching Let's Play videos of it.

 

[Tani Coyote]

From my AAR at: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=341974

..It was just too epic to not share. Almost like the time Madrid became Catalan-cultured in one game... up next, Rome turning Sunni! ...Or Shi'ite...

 

[cardgame]

same tourney

 

[PhroX]

From my AAR at: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=341974

..It was just too epic to not share. Almost like the time Madrid became Catalan-cultured in one game... up next, Rome turning Sunni! ...Or Shi'ite...

Sadly I've lost the pic, but I had a protestant Pope once

 

[mythmonster2]

Hell, why stop there? Wait, is it possible to turn provinces to a Pagan religion? I don't think so, from what I remember, but could someone confirm?

 

[SuperBeaverInc.]

Upon realizing that there is to be a new EU3 expansion coming soon, I started up a new game as Muscovy. After beating up the other Russian states, I teamed up with Poland to take down Lithuania and grab the last provinces needed to form Russia. Current year is 1439.

 

[Tani Coyote]

Sadly I've lost the pic, but I had a protestant Pope once

That must have been oh so epic...

More shameless advertisement:

The year is 1497. Emperor Mose I of Venice has gone on a spree of rape throughout France and the HRE. (After all, there can be only one Emperor in Europe) Venice currently holds the plurality of votes for Holy Roman Emperor(Ferrara, Mainz, and the Pope, only Ferrara is guaranteed because of being a vassal). The current Emperor has been reduced to Munich.

A trend in the recent decades of the game has been Austria and France falling apart and rebuilding. This is because Burgundy built up a massive empire, but was inherited by Austria at the historical date, causing it to disintegrate. France and Austria have both fought in the meantime, with France(which was previously split in two by the Burgundy-released Orleans) overrunning Britanny and overall expanding it's dominance over Western Europe again, while Austria lost several provinces to rebels thanks to Venice weakening them.

Now, that trend reversed, with Austria annexing Wurtemburg(connecting their Rhineland provinces with their inherited Tirol provinces), and the Austrians also took Cambrai from France in a war that began just before Venice invaded France. Exommunicated and embargoing Venice on and off, France was ripe for being invaded, and paid the price when Austria and Venice's combined peace offers split it into five separate regions.

Vassals are outlined in black, and I will be able to become Italy in 1522. I rule over the Papacy, have made much of the formerly-Islamic territories Catholic thanks to my set of 6-star missionaries, and overall am poised for dominance as more and more territories have started to become cores(I can actually run my military at 100% mainteance year round and not run a deficit). With the Emperorship coming in the near future, I'm more or less destined to be hegemon of Europe by the late 1500s.

 

[Darth_Pugwash]

I noticed the year is 1999 in the top screenshot. is the USSR still intact or does the game give historical events of its breakup?

There are no events for the breakup of the Soviet Union, they just keep right on trucking, probably because the designers didn't want half of the superpower relations mechanic disappearing if you played beyond 91.

 

[Maniacal]

Couple of Mirror's Edge screenshots, unfortunately one is from the ending and the other is just a pretty explosion, I was too busy the rest of the game to stop and take a screenshot, but it is a very beautiful game.

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Possible spoiler inside.

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SPOILER INSIDE

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And a couple of Left 4 Dead 2 shots from a couple of weeks ago.

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[Genocidicbunny]

Ah I remember that bit in ME. I was like: the heck do I have to OH GOD ow my face it burns.

 

[mythmonster2]

Rememberin' the good times with Zoo Tycoon.

 

[Luckymoose]

Australia fights on for the Empire!

 

[Tee Kay]

I know someone who claimed to have, playing Australia, conquered Siam and Central America, beat the USA in 1937 or 38, and then defeated Japan. I think he was using full IC takeover though.

 

[Genocidicbunny]

It may be feasable with full IC takeover, but that is still extremely fast to beat the US. '39 is doable, but '37 or '38 is hard to believe.