

It is small in terms of impact and relatively uninteresting compared to some of the more obvious and interactive new additions to the game.Ī highlight of Spitter is of course the in-game Spitter app itself. Funny and different as the celebrity part of Spitter is, though, it is also perhaps the least exciting factor of the DLC package. Through a combination of attractiveness and social media manipulations, celebs such as Elon Gates (that is a real example) may choose to move to Tropico and provide some discernible benefit, as well as helping you to attract other tourists provided that you can keep them happy. Spitter gets you on board initially by getting you to attract a celebrity to Tropico.

Nevertheless, if even part of the development concept behind Spitter was to get players on board with the tourism mechanics of the game then it has very much succeeded. Given the wealth of tourism options available in the game and the fascinating system which this element of Tropico 6 provides, it seems crazy to me now that I had ignored it for so long. For me, tourism was a largely ignored aspect of the game, unless an objective specifically required me to do something with it. More specifically, it turned my focus away from the usual trade and citizen happiness side of the game and led me to focus almost entirely on tourism. Spitter certainly added something to the experience of playing Tropico. Please the popular people visiting your paradise, and the possibilities for Presidente’s power and prosperity are positively prodigious! Who knew the letter P had so much potential! Bringing a social media swing to the isle of Tropico for the first time in its established history, Spitter mimics a similarly-named social platform from the real world and finally puts celebrities in the spotlight. With but a handful of releases to speak of, albeit with a classically common thread of llama themes, the release of the latest package, Spitter, is something of an event for fans of El Presidente’s exploits. To date, Tropico 6’s array of DLC offerings has been relatively reserved for the franchise.

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