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Sign up for Tropico 3's closed beta revolution

by Alexander Sliwinski on Jun 27th 2009 1:00AM

Being El Presidente of a South American country is an exclusive club. With that in mind, Kalypso Media is currently taking applications for players interested in Tropico 3's closed PC beta. Despite what you've been led to believe in recent years, a beta is not a demo, and your job is to actually help test the game and report bugs.

Those interested in helping make the banana republic simulator the best it can be, can head on over to the Haemimont Games website and fill out an application. The actual testing begins July 13. Tropico 3 is expected to start a revolution on PC and Xbox 360 this September.

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Tags: beta, haemimont-games, kalypso-media, Microsoft, tropico-3, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (26)

The hell is this?

c'mon man
cant you see?
its a Cuban Life Simulator

@Link408
Where was I for 1 and 2?

What? You never heard of Tropico? 1 was an awesome game, 2 was meh because of the pirates thing.

Also it's not a Cuban Life Simulator, it's a dictator simulator kind of like SimCity but with more power over the people and it's set in Latin America.

Pretty much the only case in the history of the universe where adding pirates was a bad thing.

I too have never heard of this series, but if it was primarily a PC franchise before this one then that would explain why.

And to make it clear: while the game will be released for Xbox 360 and PC, the beta is PC-only.

Oh, I really can't wait to play this game. Even if PopTop isn't making it.

The first two are two of my favourite games, and I'm so glad to see this one is going to go back to what made the first one so great.

Tropico 1 was fantastic.

Tropico 2 was terrible.

Awesome. I signed up. Thanks joystiq.

This will be my 4th beta if I get a key, the first 3 being the call of duty 4 + 5 and Bad company

Signed up for the beta. Thanks for the heads up, Joystiq. I actually have the first game still installed on my machine.

I hope they have the same composer doing the music. The previous games had some of the catchiest tunes I've ever heard in a video game. I think I still have the soundtrack to Tropico 2 in my computer somewhere.....

The soundtrack to Tropico was one of my first internet purchases. I still play it in my car all the time.

Part of me wants to be really excited about this, but part of me feels that everything that needed to be done was done in the first one. Still, I'm excited to see the franchise come back, I'll gladly try it.

Well, I think this was developed by the developers of the first, so we'll see.

So as someone not familiar with the series. What kind of game is this? Syndicate-ish? GTA?

It's mostly SimCity with a deeper resource management system as well as having to keep your people happy to avoid revolution or foreign takeover by either capitalist or communist forces.

oh.. thank, that's not good for me then.. SimCity is an addiction, I don't need more. So in otherwords, I'll probably buy it

Keep your people happy OR scared shitless that is.

I was once a Presidente of my own banana republic, until those imperialist dogs invaded my island and took it from me. Now I can have my revenge in 3D.

At first I read "Sign up for Trico closed beta" only to be disappointed.

nobody cared

Hey, thanks for wasting your's and my time by posting this comment. It really expanded my understanding of the topic at hand. I had no realization that you, bimmerfreak0, didn't like Tropico 3. Without your mind-blowing revelation you have presented here, I would have not had such a life altering experience as your dislike of this game.

Again, I thank you for wasting my time. May you triumphantly wave this flag of dislike for Tropico 3 as you progress into the future by following this path.

since the 360 first came out i have been reading joystiq but i never signed up

Wow

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