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Absoultly Stinks!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: March 25, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I did not like this game at all. The instuction manual is like the size of a phone book, what is that? The graphics stink, music stinks, I think it is the worst Eidos ever made.

Total Garbage!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: May 17, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I think this is the worst PC game I own. I had bought it from the overpriced electronics boutique when it was new. I have it for like 3 years, and all it does is collect dust on my self. I think that it stinks, if you dont believe me just buy it and see for yourslef how bad this game really is. I have to admit Amazon gives you a better price than I paid. But it is not worth it, the games graphics stink, music is awful, and playability, I must say the worst I have even seen. I would givee it minus -5 stars if their was such a thing. Try something like Unreal or Half-Life instead, they are more fun.

game is total ...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 7
Date: May 20, 2001
Author: Amazon User

this game is total ..., I do not like it, sound stinks, playability is worst ever made.

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!

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.

Complex but fun. Thank goodness for the pause button

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: December 22, 1999
Author: Amazon User

If you like the era, and if you like micromanaging as you build an empire (here, a business and crime empire), this is a fun game. The strong points include nearly infinite replayability, its nice mix of strategy (mixing legal and illegal businesses) and tactics (arranging and responding to street ambushes and hits), and the amusing grace notes -- like bribing police, intimidating jurors, and torching rival speakeasies The designers went to great lengths to give the gamer many choices, both strategic (there are three ways to win) and tactical. The game's drawbacks include the steep learning curve, a rather cumbersome interface, and the difficulties of keeping track of multiple events happening all over the map; the pause button helps here, but if you try to keep on top of everything, each game turn (one week) can become long and tedious. This is definitely for your more cerebral moods, not when you want a beer-and-pretzel quick and easy game.

I wanted to like this game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 7 / 10
Date: November 16, 1999
Author: Amazon User

This game has a very big learning curve. It took me a long time to "get it" on how to play the game. Unfortunately, just as it started getting interesting it would crash around turn 35 or so just as I began to win. As a result, after investing many hours in this game, I still don't know what happens when I win it. Read the review. It is very accurate.

Wait for the sequel...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: April 20, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I think the Gamespot review was right on the money. This is a great game in the making, but its not quite there yet. The idea and graphics are brilliant, but the interface is tricky and prone to bugs. Buy it if you have the extra cash, but otherwise wait until a sequel comes out.

Organized crime on your PC

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: January 21, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I found this game to be very fun and stimulating.The game is quite difficult especially in handling your tasks once the week started.The wars with the other gangsters are very quick,sudden, and bloody, often with you losing more men than the enemy.My overall opinion of this game is it is pretty entertaining, but i hope now that Eidos will make another one without the difficulties of the first one.Now that the game type is out, I believe there will be more to follow.I believe this is a good game for the price.There will undoubtedly be more and better mafia games to come.

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