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Seriously disappointing

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 10 / 12
Date: January 13, 2005
Author: Amazon User

People talked about this game like it was a cross between "Grand Theft Auto 3," "Gangsters," and "The Sims." Believing that, I went out to acquire this game. I regret spending my money.

Here's how gameplay is: you play a campaign, following a storyline. However, this is not like GTA3 where you can follow a certain storyline/story arch and still go out and do your own thing. Each mission is an isolated level, like a normal video game. Before I completed a mission, I went out and acquired a large portion of the city that I was allowed to go in, as well as raising my own personal army. Then when the next level was loaded...BAM! All of it was gone. I was heartbroken. Everything I had done was thus undone, as if the game only wanted me to have so much power. Imagine earning a lot of money, weapons, and vehicles in GTA3 and then suddenly losing all of it come the next mission, and you'll understand me better. What you come to realize is that while the game designers had a great concept, they presented it terribly. I got tired of doing the missions, and I didn't feel like I was in any great sim like the advertisements claimed. I think "Gangsters" was more like "The Sims" than this was.

The gameplay is also annoying. Moving the camera was awkward, though that wasn't my biggest complaint. The voice acting in this was incredibly awful. Every character says something in an attack, and its usually in a bad Italian accent. This is even worse for the girls who pepper spray people, and every time having to say something out loud. Imagine someone saying "How do you like my new piece?" and "You're goin' down!" every SECOND and you will understand just why I quickly turned down the volume.

There are other serious issues with this game however. The main reason I have given it one star as opposed to the original two I was going to give it is this: the patches. I downloaded the patch after a crash-to-desktop when the game first loaded...only to realize I had to download the other patches beforehand. Problem is...those patches apparently no longer exist. I couldn't believe it. I went to the company's website and searched all over, with just the recent patch available. I searched online, and though I found some earlier patches the game couldn't accept them, because it first had to accept the other, MUCH earlier patches. So all in all...I couldn't patch the game. This is inexcusable.

This game is not what I would recommend to other people. I hope in some ways my words have helped other gamers make a decision, or prevented them from making a serious financial mistake. Though the scars are too deep in me, I can exert my pain for the better good of mankind. Don't buy this game.

Beware: Absolutely Horrible Game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 8
Date: April 17, 2004
Author: Amazon User

When the game first came out, it did not have the save game feature & had many performance problems. Then after a long delay Media mobsters came out with Patch 1.2.1 which had a checkpoint save feature not the save feature where you can save the game when ever you want. Also Patch 1.2.1 had lots & lots of bugs leading to occasional crashes & performance problems. You can read all about this in the official forum: http://www.forumplasma.com/gangland/.
Almost all the forum members at the official forum had requested media mobsters to correct these issues but they responded back saying that right now they are concentrating all their resources in developing a localized version of the game for different countries. What kind of software company is this? Instead of solving the bugs in the game first and improving the game's performance, they are concentrating on making more money & fooling customers in different countries by making localized versions of the game. I wonder how far greed will take media mobsters.
I am giving the game a rating of 1 since the lowest in Amazon is 1. If there was something less than that I would have given that.

Anyway If you are interested in trying this game, just wait for 10-15 days as I am sure that lots of disgusted game players will be selling their cd's at less than $10 at ebay. Today I sold mine at $11 and I am happy that atleast I have earned $11 for this disgusting buggy game

MOB RULES TWIN BROTHER PLUS EXTRA's

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: March 13, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I have greatly enjoyed playing GANGLAND so far. It's simple, yet, still hard to "master". Getting use to the camara controls using the ALT key is probably the hardest thing to overcome. But, once you get past that part, this game is right up there with MOB RULE for fun and entertaining. It has simularities to RTS with missions within conquests of the game. There are 16 conquests with a number of missions per conquest, but, you can still play each conquest open ended to your hearts content. Of course as you get futher and futher into the conquests they get harder and harder, but, that's the fun of it, you get your money's worth in challenge. Multiplayer can be played against other players or the computer and there's 20 conquests in the multiplayer feature as well, though simular to the single player games. Multiplayer vs the computer can be even harder than the single player, it seems the computer AI gets more men in the MP game and faster than in the SP version.

There's a patch out for it already, that supposedly allows you to save mid conquest, I've played without it though, I like the added challenge of having to complete a conquest before it autosaves. I guess some whiney babies can't handle having to start over...waaaah! lol

This one is going to last longer than MOB RULE did, MOB RULE was great but too short IMHO. Just as I was starting to drool MOB RULE was over! lol. I'm in the 7th conquest now and it's rip roaring smacking blasting good fun. Kinda miss that line from Mob Rule though "Hey MOOK!" just before yah blasted them.

If you like this sorta type game, Mafia, Mobs, Gangs, Godfather type games, you will certainly like GANGLAND. If you don't buy this, I'd watch my back if I were you, you might just hear someone behind you say "HEY MOOK!" lol

A Game You Can't Refuse

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: February 23, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I just played the demo after reading some of the reviews here and on some other sites - to say I'm impressed just doesn't do justice. This is by far one of the best action/strategy games to come along in years. I wouldn't compare it to GTA because they are completely different styles of gameplay, but I would DEFINITELY say that this game is as good as GTA in terms of quality and fun. Multiplayer is seriously going to ROCK!

Good and Bad

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: March 16, 2004
Author: Amazon User

So far I've only played the demo version of the game. Unfortunately I've never been able to complete a game without it crashing on me and my friends. With that being said I'm still giving this 4 stars because it's a hell of a lot of fun to play (especially in safehouse mode). The FFA mode kinda blows - you start with a set amount of dudes and attack the other side and that's it. With safehouse mode though it's a completely different story. You start out with your main guy (don't let him die!) and a bouncer. From there you can take over the entire city, hire tons of guys, do missions and more. I hope the full version has more than 2 players on a safehouse map. This would definately be a good game for LAN parties.

Gangland rocks

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: February 26, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I just bought the new Game Gangland, what a great game! I love the story and action. I ususally don't go for the games with isometric view, but after trying out the demo, I had to get this game.

It's the Real Deal!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: February 27, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Fun and action-packed! I happen to really like mob movies and action games with a lot of gun battles/strategy, so the game really appeals to me because it's almost like a combo of the two. Somebody else compared it to GTA and I agree.

This game rocks

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 21, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I just played the demo and it blew me away, literally. This game has it all. If you like mod games this is the the crown royal, you can do it all in this game. I will be playing this demo every day until the game comes out.

Gangland Join the MOB.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: May 06, 2004
Author: Amazon User

GREAT! Be a member of the mob without the short life expectancy.
Requires planning, but worth the effort.
Much more depth than other games.
Fun.

Gangland is sooo tight

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: February 21, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Anyone that thinks Grand Theft Auto is good is going to love Gangland. I just played the Gangland demo for the first time and wow it blows GTA out of the water. Better graphics, better game play. Go from shooting people to building up your businesses in town. Start from scratch and build your own family into the most powerful family in town.

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