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good strategy game with real time Combat

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: September 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is basically turn based with a real time gameplay period where your orders from the strategy phase are carried out , or not. You can follow your guys around town as they attempt to carry out your orders on time. You buy weapons , cars and property to improve your chances and build your income to pay your ever growing gang. This was a great game for this type theme . Have been waiting for a good sequal to it but Gangsters 2 was a let down. They changed too much of the best parts of the original.

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.

Alsome

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: March 04, 2004
Author: Amazon User

It is so much fun, very indepth once you get the hang of it, I highly suggest it.

Very nice

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: July 01, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is a very good game. It has many way to approch it so it never becomes boring. Much better then it's sequal Gangsters 2. It is not easy though but not impossible. I enjoyed this game very much and I recommend this game to anyone who likes sim games.

Dull gameplay, but interesting to watch for a while

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: January 04, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I guess they were sort of going for a SIMS meet the Godfather game. I didn't really see much gameplay going on. There is an introductory video sequence in the begining, similar to the Untouchables tv show and then you are plopped into a 30s era simulation of city blocks. There are various little people running around doing errands and you can click on them to get more information. The street cars and other vehicles are kind of neat. I did enjoy watching that for a little while but that's about as far as I got. It may be worth picking up in a bargain bin but don't expect much more excitement than I've described above.

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.

AWFUL!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: December 07, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game stinks! no better way to put it, I think that you would enjoy Swat 2 instead or black and white, I wish I never bought this one.

Buy This Game Now

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: December 02, 2002
Author: Amazon User

In gangsters your the boss, you decide
who lives, who dies,nobody does nothin' unless
you give the order. this is by far the best mafia game
out there.so why did i only give it 4 stars? because the
cover of the box could have been done better.So what are
you doin reading this review, buy the game so you can
hit the streets and get into the action.

Wanna be a crime lord?

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 21, 2002
Author: Amazon User

==This is probably one of the best sims of it's time. Unlike other sims, this one challenges the player to use his/her mind instead of quick reflexes. In essence, you must issue commands at the beginning of each week, and you can choose to watch it unfold after you hit the streets.
==A warning! There is very little that requires direct intervention during the actual week. It is mainly a strategy session followed by the animations of your actions during a week (gametime) period.
==The sound and music are sub-par, and they get rather boring after a while. But there is always the option of turning off the speakers and crank up your own music.
==Gameplay and graphics are dated, but if that is all you care about, ignore this game. This is one sweet little gem for someone willing to get past it's age and enjoy a good 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!

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