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This game is Terrible!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 9
Date: July 07, 2000
Author: Amazon User

If your idea of fun is running spreadsheets and playing hunt and click with your mouse, then this is the game for you. If you want a serious simulation of the 1920's ganster era, move on. There is plenty of chrome in the game and a lot of fun concepts, but the bottom line is that its a spreadsheet game that has you more interested in completing columns than robbing banks. The action part of the game has a cumberson interface that leaves your "crooks" out of control and more often dead than alive. You are barraged by red herring audio clues and an inablity to find where signifcant audio items have occured. Think long and hard before you buy this game.

Unbelievably Boring

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 9
Date: May 24, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is one of the most unhappening games I have ever had the displeasure to play. Nothing happens. The controls are lousy, the graphics sub-par, the sound is bog-standard and the gameplay is weak. I bought it because I thot it might be a sort of Age of Empires meets Al Capone. But this is seriously one of the most non-engaging games out there. Avoid!

The Boss wants you to Buy this game, understand?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: February 21, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Gangsters Organized Crime is, in my opinion, one of the best games ever made! I play it hour after hour, day after day, and it dosn't get old till you have to stop. The first time I saw it, I new I wanted it. I had never heard about it at all until I saw it. Finally I got it for my birthday. You can not believe how fun this game is. You start out designing your facial features from a pool of hair designes and faces. You even pick a nickname for yourself! Then you pick the gang color, the number of hoods, buisnesses, and money you have, and you'r of. Once playing you extort buildings so you can collect protection money. Buy buisnesses and send hoods to run them. Build illiegal buisnesses such as a speakeasy, casino, and lloan shark. While doing so you compete to gain control of the city from three other gangs. You purchase weapons and cars to take out the enemy. Order hits, bribes, and recruitments. You win when you have killed all other three gangsters, you become the mayor, or you go strait. I recomend that if you buy the game either buy the box with the manual, or wait for the sequal, which sounds even better. It does take a few hours to get the hang of it, but it's worth it. It is'nt worth paying five dollars less to not be able to enjoy this wonderful game. There are a few thing that I hope will be improved in the sequal. You can only order eighty hoods in one week, you can not frame your enimies, and it is hard to get territory once some one else has it. These are minor though, I highly recomend this game. However, it might pay to wait a few months for the sequel.

Great Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: July 03, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This is the best gangster game I have ever seen! The only reason it is not a five star is the fact that it is hard to get started with. But once you get the hang of it is easy! With scenerios and long game it ranks the best game i have! For additional help get the Prima Strategy Guide.

interesting gameplay and worth the money

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: December 24, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is a very slow game to play but that is what it was meant for. There is a high degree of strategy involved in the gameplay, and careful management is needed to win. There are many ways to take over the city your in so there is a high degree to replayability, and once you win it is fun to mess around and set up strange operations like blowing up the fbi building. i played it a few times and i liked it. it would be much more interesting if they made some sort of faster paced multiplayer option. i doubt well see anything like that in the future though. give it a try, or dl the demo. its worth it i think.

Very good themed gamed

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: October 10, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Gangsters is a very good game, it has good graphics, and some pretty real sounding sound effects. In this game, you are the leader of one of the gangs in the city, and its your lob to wipe out the other gangs and take over the city. What i think is really fun, is picking a fight with an innocent person walking along the rode, and you go and shoot him and run, hehe but after you do that cops might try and chase you down, and i found how to control that, is by having at least 3 or 4 of my gang with each other and have all of them shoot at the cops, because the cops have some damn good body armor on, and it takes a few extra bullets to take em.

What i also think is fun is to go blow up a building, and the most thing about blowing things up is to try and toss a few bombs in the police station and run like hell, use one of your goons with a fast car, so he can get away without being ran down.

Best game ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 16
Date: November 16, 1999
Author: Amazon User

This is the greatest game in the world. It is so cool how you can blow up buildings and kill cops and bribe people. I can't wait until Gangsters2. Parents don't worry this game isn't influential because it is fake and in the 1920's

WORTH THE TIME AND MONEY(HIGHLY RECOMMENDED)

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 06, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I gotta say this game ias worth the the. The learning curve is pretty big, but if you stick with the instructions, any idiot can overcome it.lol.I HIGHLY RECOMMEND this game to any avid Strategy game fan. This game was created to challenge your mind, and if you have a shoot em up wit, you have wasted your cash.But.... I would recommnend this game to any and everybody. LOTS OF FUN!

AWESOME!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 05, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Gangsters is the best game ever! At first it is a little difficult to understand all the buttons, but go through the tutorials and its a breeze. You'll love blowing up buildings and finding new gangsters and buying old cars. It does't get any better than this!

Organize your crime

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 26, 2004
Author: Amazon User

An older but classic strategy game where you call the shots as one of several competing mob bosses. You determine each week's orders for your various hoods, from recruiting more hoods to setting up illegal businesses or bribing officials. Your hoods can commit minor crimes such as extorting money from local businesses for "protection," or commit more violent offenses such as theft, arson, assault, or murder. You also supply your hoods with the right weapons and vehicles for the job.

After the orders are given and you hit the street, you can follow the individuals and see they do, giving basic orders with mouse clicks. Will they run into other hostile gang members or the police?

Win the game three ways-abandon crime and go straight, run for mayor and get elected, or destroy all the other crime bosses. The game has a fantastic concept and premise, which provides for a lot of entertainment.

There are several major drawbacks to the game. The first is the clunky interface as you try to administer your orders. It can take forever to sort through all your recruits and see who is worth keeping, and it takes a lot of repetitive clicking and dragging to get all of your orders situated. Also, once the week gets started, it is difficult to really be able to follow all of your hoods, and you can't give them very good instructions.

If you love the idea of running a fantasy mob enterprise, then this is the best game out there. The graphics in games have improved in the last few years, but this game still provides a lot of entertainment, especially for the money. I have to say I like this game.

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