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Great game, little slow

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 10 / 10
Date: December 25, 1999
Author: Amazon User

This is a great game. It is fun, intense and takes much thought. The premise is a 1920's generic city that is loaded with gangsters. Your job is to run a crime syndicate and take over the city by defeating the other crime organizations, aquiring much wealth and owning a lot of property. The game is fun to play but it can be slow sometimes and a little repetitive. The game takes thinking too and isn't just a "run-around, shoot 'em up." You must negotiate with other crime bosses and pay off city officals. Making hits is great as well as bombing buildings. The game is surprisingly realistic and has much detail. Besides the fact that the game can be slow at the times, I highly recommend it. I wish I could give it a 4 1/2 stars. If your interested in the Mafia and some strategy, I highly recommend purchasing this game.

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.

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.

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.

You're are going to buy this game, see?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 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. Each hood has special abilities, so assemble indivisoual teams for certain perposes! Order your lawyer to pay of the police, and their no llonger a problem. Take out the witnesses and bribe judges to save your men, our you. You win when you have killed all other three gangsters, you become the mayor, or you go strait. This game doew 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.

Even after a year its still good

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 9
Date: February 06, 2000
Author: Amazon User

The only problem with this game is it has a high learning curve. But really all you have to do is follow along in the instruction book and you'll figure it out in no time. When I first played I went straight to playing so I was lost. Don't be dumb like me... follow the instructions. You'll be thinking about your gangsters all of the time. The only problem I found is that there wasn't enough interaction. As in like if you could go walk around in your casino in first person and stuff. The greatest part of the game is that your always having problems. Either you have cops knocking on your door 24-7, or an opposing Gangster is moving in next door. It's your job to get rid of the gangster and maybe pay off the cops. And you have to think like a gangster in the 20s. You can't just kill kill kill. Or you'll be arrested before you can say you rule the city. You have three different ways of winning. Run for mayor, defeat everyone, or be a millionare and just walk away. Bad part is you can't verse people like "Lucky" Luciano, Al Capone, and Bugsy Moran. But still an awesome game. Highly recommended to strategy gamers.

Not bad at all...........

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: May 04, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This is a pretty cool game. Its VERY challenging, I only know one person who's finished it. You do have to like strategy games to like this though, because there isn't much else to it. I mean theres not much interaction in the gunfights, its not much of an adventure because its slow-paced, it is strategy pure and simple. The concept is very cool, it can get a bit repetitive though. And its slow, you don't get much action until you advance a bit in the game. In general its a cool game.... theres something addictive about it... but be warned, its not for everyone.

Fun, Exciting, and a good challenge

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: August 01, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Great game, lots of different things to do! Like different ways to win, and many different things to do during the week,( Bomb Buildings, Collect Protection, Bribe, Kill, Buy and Run Legal and Illegal Businesses, and more!) Barley any blood, when people die they fall down and dissapear, a chalk outline of the body remains. And normaly your not paying attention to that person... Very "Hustle and Bustle" kind of game! So get the demo and try it out very fun and exciting! It's also a good challenge too, just what I like!

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.

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