Gangsters: Organized Crime

by Eidos

Product Features

• Windows
• Simulations
• Retail Jewel

Product Details

• ASIN: B000EB92PE
• Item Weight: 7 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #25,074 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Platform:  WINDOWS 98/ME/XP Publisher:  EIDOS Packaging:  JEWEL CASE Rating:  TEEN The strategy game where crime pays.  Incorporating elements of both real-time and turn-based strategy games Gangsters: Organized Crime brings a new era of gaming to the strategy enthusiast. Set in a fictitious Chicago-style city during the 1920's prohibition era you play a mob boss whose goal is to build an empire that controls the City. To do this you must crush three rival gangs and send your enemies home in pine overcoats.Both in-depth strategic planning and real-time tactical gameplayControl every aspect of a 1920's-era mob "family"Recruit from a pool of 400 gangsters for your organization each with unique skills and assetsEnjoy a virtual world with over 5000 citizensMultiplayer support for up to 4 players over LAN and internet via gamespy.com System Requirements for Windows Windows 98 Me XPPentium 166 MHz or faster (200 MHz or faster recommended)32 MB RAM (64 MB for XP)2 MB SVGA DirectX 6.0 compatible video card (4 MB recommended)120 MB free hard disk spaceColor monitorDirectX 6.0 compatible sound cardDirectX 6.0 (included)4X CD-ROM drive (8X recommended)MouseMULTIPLAYER REQUIREMENTS (up to 4 players)IPX or TCP/IP (LAN)TCP/IP (WAN) via Gamespy (28.8 kbps or higher)Internet connection

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Gangsters: Organized Crime, March 19, 2009

By 

shawnZshihan (Texas) - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Gangsters: Organized Crime (CD-ROM)

This game is engrossing and exciting. It is somewhat like a RTS mixed with turn-based mechanics - you plot out what your gang is going to do, and you can arm them with various firearms (pistols, shotguns, rifles and machineguns) and also explosives. You can buy various cars for them to get around the city faster. You can purchase property and run legal and illegal businesses, and of course extort banks, hotels and other businesses for money.

When you are done giving orders to your gang members, you then go into the RTS mode which lasts a week in game time; you can speed up the passage of time. You go up against 3 other mob bosses and it gets brutal - recruit new gang members every week, just to have some in your manpower pool. Watch out for the police and FBI - but sometimes they come in handy to get them to attack the other gangs. If there are a lot of cops around, you can attack enemy gang members with guys who are good in hand-to-hand combat (fists or knives). Bwuhahahaha! Great game!

5.0 out of 5 stars Great game but beware!, October 20, 2011

By 

Quasimodo (Connecticut) - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Gangsters: Organized Crime (CD-ROM)

This doesn't work on Windows XP. Oh I guess maybe some people can get it to play but I tried downloading the "Work on XP patch" specifically for this game and even went into "Properties" and set to "Run for Windows 98/ME and still couldn't get it to run.

3.0 out of 5 stars Game runs really, really, really, REALLY slow in Vista., August 23, 2010

By 

Jeremy Burks "jwburks" (Philadelphia, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Gangsters: Organized Crime (CD-ROM)

I don't know what the problem is. I have seen YouTube videos of this game being played. But on my duo-core system in Vista, this game runs excessively sluggish. You cannot speed up time to bypass this horrible snail-fest, because if you do, the resulting simulation will be inaccurate (money will not be collected, people won't be hired, the game will simply skip over things to get to the end of the week). Is anybody else having this problem? Is there a fix?