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The Bookworm Deluxe is a Big Fish pc game that can help beginning readers to learn spelling words. While having fun playing the game, the correct spelling of short words is reinforced through repetition. And thanks to the competing time clock, players will become swifter spellers out of need. The Bookworm Deluxe game is esthetically designed with the spirit of the young in mind. The main character on the side of the screen is, of course, a bookworm caricature. This is your pall through the game. He will show definitions of the words that are spelled during the game. He also shows you at the end of each level the statistics for that session. Another place that cartoon-ish characters are is at the end of a level, at the bottom of the screen. …show more content…
You want new challenges and perhaps become the dictator you always thought you could be. Well, you should being playing Tropico 3. Tropico 3 is basically city building just like Cities XL and SimCity 4, but with this game, you're building an entire country called "Tropico" during the Cold War. As Tropico's leader, El Presidente, the goal is simple: lead your Caribbean island nation to prosperity through democracy or dictatorship. This game combines city management with a wide variety of factors that any world leader would face including a nation's economy, law enforcement, armed rebels, and transportation. One personal part of Tropico 3 and its processors that I've enjoyed a lot was dealing with numerous political factions home and abroad. You can with allied with America and still be a dictator of a banana republic. Or perhaps, you want to be a Communist and spread the wealth to all of your citizens. Don't worry about pleasing everyone, since, if you a few enemies you want to take care of, you can have them assassinated, exile, or locked up in prison. Just like any city/nation building game, you'll be able to choose scenarios of your liking, adjust its' difficulty, and even create yourself as the leader to suit your personal style. A small nod goes to the music during game play and the funny, radio commentary by the fictional radio station Tropico News Today that will comment on your actions from time to …show more content…
The total possible complexities are quite massive and the room for creativity nearly endless. Many fans have even created incredible scale replicas of their home towns and cities viewable through online communities correct to geographic detail. This is a very family friendly game and can make a great 'parent and child' hobby where each take turns developing and connecting their own areas and or building together. The graphics are by far the best of any Sim City game to date and it is accompanied by an optional and customizable stock soundtrack collection of interesting and original music. Sim City 4 is easy to learn and the tutorials easy to understand. The control interface for the game is intuitive, easy to use, and understand. When you start a new game from the beginning there is nothing but wide open space like an empty painter's pallet ready to be filled. It is up to you how your city/cities start and grow. You can create an industrial heartland with the associated problems of heavy pollution or go the harder ecologically friendly way and power your city starting with wind turbines to solar power plants. Include the 'Rush Hour' expansion pack and you can then drive many different vehicles in and throughout your cities performing missions for bonuses,

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