Customer Reviews

Gangsters: Organized Crime

5 star:		(2)
4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

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!

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.

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?

The game's too outdated. It doesn't work on any of my computers.

I was having a burst of nostalgia a few months ago and decided to pick this game up. I used to play it back when I was a wee Catholic schoolgirl (yes, I'd go home and play this darn game after a day of religious studies and attending church, but in retrospect, it's less violent than Grand Theft Auto Vice City). The game was challenging and I'd usually wind up losing to the other gangs quite miserably, so I never beat it. But it's fun, if you're into the whole Al Capone or Bugsy Siegel history. It's been more than eight years since I've played this game last, so my memory's hazy (hence the reason I bought it).

But...it doesn't work. It's outdated. They need to bring out an updated version of this game.

I understand that the above review was a year ago, but you can in fact speed up time during your turn. If you don't mind playing an older game with noticably older graphics this game can be quite fun it is one that I still have a couple copies of laying around that get installed once in awhile for a change of pace. The "empire builder" is where this game shines, you can essentially do whatever you want in regards to giving orders to your soldiers but this is not nor did it ever try to be an RTS if that is what you are looking for.

This game is so fun. you blow buildings out of the ground, burn down buildings to ashes, even collect protection money and kiddnap people and if one of yours gets captured to can trade people.

This is a very fun game for the most part. In fact, this would probably be one of my favorite games if it wasn't for one thing. The work week. You plan out what all of your gangsters are going to do for the week, but then you must sit there and watch the game for about 30 min. as your gangsters carry out there orders. This would not be too bad if you had the option to speed up time or skip the whole thing. All you can really do during this time is look around the city from an overhead view and watch what is happening around you. This feature takes this game from 5 stars to probably 0 in most people's view.