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Just a doll, Yours xxxxx

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: May 24, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Played a beta for this and very much enjoyed the 2-3 weeks I had playing it, fun to had in buckets here ,drive bys, bombings and the whole gangster feel (the graphics really do get across the whole 30's feel).

Good videos and Sound/music wrap up an empressive game

BUY IT!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: May 21, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I am writeing this review without out actually playing the full version of the game. I have however had the fortune to have layed a "beta" version of the game. I did fall in love with Gangster 1: organised crime. The TBS aspect has somewhat been killed off in Gangsters 2. This may diss-appoint some players such as myself who enjoyed that aspect in G1. However the game does make up for this in it's silky smooth gameplay and visually stunning GFX. I have 1 complaint about this game, the box it should come in should be violin shaped just to give that extra touch. Bar doing this the good people at Hothouse have made a masterpiece. As the saying goes "the boys done good"

This will be good, you will buy it, you will enjoy it and you will want to be the next Al "scarface" Capone. Oli

A waste of an excellent concept

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: December 02, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Perhaps my anticpation for and high expectations of this game are what has caused me to give it just one star. But I must say, I don't think my dissappointment is at all unjustified.

The gameplay is abolutely terrible. It is incredibly frustrating trying to give commands, particularly when you instruct a car to 'flee', and it turns back into the direction of a plethora of cops and rival gangsters. Knowing what to do in certain scenarios can be a headache inducing experience in itself.

The simplicity of the game is overshadowed by the teeth-grinding irritation that comes with trying to accomplish anything. Personally, I found the first Gangsters to be more accessable and less mind-numbingly dull. While the 'working week' aspect of it was a bit annoying at times, giving orders was simpler and the level of involvement you were allowed was by far greater.

This game misses some of the neat, finer detail aspects of the first. But if you're after some real gangster/criminal action, go for something like Mafia or GTA3 instead.

Not worth the money

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 19, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Very disappointed in this *yawn* boring game. Graphics are poor...less than to be expected of a game at this price. The mobsters are not even The Sims quality...they are small and have little detail, barely can tell they are people at all. No satisfaction for those liking the sinisterism of being a mobster. You spend most of the time hunting moving square dots on a poorly drawn map. Blood is a single red pixel. Missions are boring and similar throughout the game. Little detail, no mobster feel. Menu and maps are frustrating to work with, moving between and across maps and menus will furiate you. Difficult to follow your mobsters on the map...hard to find a view that works. Its like playing blindly. Controls are not user friendly...unecessary button combos. The wrong click of the mouse can mean "game over"....and its extremely easy to make this mistake. Often times mobsters and vehicles will not move the direction you want..and will get killed. Not user friendly...bottom line...game is good enough to cure boredom but buy it when its 15.99.

Gangsters 2 is worth the price

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 07, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Although I have never played Gangsters 1, Gangsters 2 is a pretty cool game. The gameplay is fun and exciting cuz it feels like your actually in control of a real mob group in the streets of New York in the 50's. Finally a game thats worth the price and money. I can't wait for the cheat codes to come out, lol

Gangsters 2 lives up to some of the hype.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 28, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Gangsters 2 lives up to most of what it promises. The setting is realistic, some strategy is involved, and upgradable gangsters, but it does have a few weaknesses. While IMO it is better then the original in terms of graphic, sounds, and ease of play, the open-endness of the game has been cut back. Set over a series of assignments, you travel across the "state" carrying out various missions in each city. While the missions barely vary (there are easy ways and hard ways for pretty much each one) there is a nice role-playing touch that allows you to carry over gangsters and improve their stats. However this is about as close to roleplaying a gangster boss you'll get to, and the same is true for the empire building aspect. Unfortunately while you can carry over gangsters and specialists, you don't carry over equipment or money (which is odd, considering your empire's growth). The missions get harder by tactical positioning of enemies and resources (yes there is a gathering aspect) and unfortunately the AI never really improves which means tricks from earlier scenarios work in later ones. All and all the game is superior to the first, but limited in its ability to really let you "be a gangster" and explore the seemy underworld.

Even Better!!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 28, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is even better then the first one. The small changes add big effects to the gaming world of gangsters. The little changes like the weather, the outside light, the way the gangsters looks. Its a much cleaner enviroment with more tougher officials and gangsters. You have way more control over these gangsters then you did in the first one. You get amazing looking cars from the mayor and also you can do drive by shootings and also bribe police. This is a must have as well. Best simulation game since the Sims.

I like this game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 02, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The reviews are all old, but I'm still playing this game. I like it & am disapointed that they have not made another.

If you really want this game, just let me give you mine

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: September 09, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Boring and dull. You lose all control over the game to the scripted missions that you must complete,(and by the way, it is confusing as to HOW each one is supposed to be complete) and you can't buy weapons or cars until the third or fourth level. The first gangsters, despite its flaws, was one hundered times better. Instead of making improvements on the first one, it seems that they just made a totally different game with gangsters and called it "Gangsters 2". This game reminds me of Heist.

great game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: December 28, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is the coolest game I have ever played. It's Doom meets the Sims meets Diablo. I especially recommend it to anyone with a lust for the infamous tommy gun.

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