Customer Reviews

Gangsters

5 star:		(12)
4 star:		(6)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(3)

 

 

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.

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.

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.

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!

An older but classic strategy game where you call the shots as one of several competing mob bosses. You determine each week's orders for your various hoods, from recruiting more hoods to setting up illegal businesses or bribing officials. Your hoods can commit minor crimes such as extorting money from local businesses for "protection," or commit more violent offenses such as theft, arson, assault, or murder. You also supply your hoods with the right weapons and vehicles for the job.

After the orders are given and you hit the street, you can follow the individuals and see they do, giving basic orders with mouse clicks. Will they run into other hostile gang members or the police?

Win the game three ways-abandon crime and go straight, run for mayor and get elected, or destroy all the other crime bosses. The game has a fantastic concept and premise, which provides for a lot of entertainment.

There are several major drawbacks to the game. The first is the clunky interface as you try to administer your orders. It can take forever to sort through all your recruits and see who is worth keeping, and it takes a lot of repetitive clicking and dragging to get all of your orders situated. Also, once the week gets started, it is difficult to really be able to follow all of your hoods, and you can't give them very good instructions.

If you love the idea of running a fantasy mob enterprise, then this is the best game out there. The graphics in games have improved in the last few years, but this game still provides a lot of entertainment, especially for the money. I have to say I like this game.

This is the best gangster game I have ever seen! The only reason it is not a five star is the fact that it is hard to get started with. But once you get the hang of it is easy! With scenerios and long game it ranks the best game i have! For additional help get the Prima Strategy Guide.

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.

When I first saw this game on the shelf, it was an immediate 'buy' for me. I loaded it up with great anticipation and started in. From there the "fun" factor plunged. Let me explain.

The premise of this game is a 1930's style town called New Temperance. The game play is actually divided into two phases. The first is hiring your hoods, assigning them as either lieutenants or members of a lieutenant's team, giving them orders for the up and coming week. When you have completed all of this, you will begin the five day week where you can watch (and hear) your orders being carried out. You can also modify your weekly orders to some extent during the work week -- in order to respond to an enemy threat.

The game is visually pleasing and is quite amusing to watch one of your gang torch or blow up a business who won't pay protection. Of course, other than protection, there are many other illegal rackets you can indulge in. Unfortunately, the manual and the tutorials leave you pretty much on your own to figure these out. It will tell you that you have to buy a "front" business after which you can set up your illegal business in the center of the city block that the front is on. Past that, you have to figure it out on your own.

After the first couple of weeks (turns), your protection racket begins to fail as business owners refuse to pay. You'll have to deal with these using force of various levels. Additionally, the three rival gangs will begin to invade your territory and take your "clients" away from you. These, too, must be dealt with. Then you add the police and the FBI who will get involved in your affairs if you have too much going on.

The game becomes an exercise in frustration as you try to keep your head above water while everything is going to the dogs around you. Maybe I just haven't found the right formula yet.

There is no "sandbox" scenareo where you can play as the only gang in the city in order to learn the mechanics. And even at the most passive level, the rival gangs will be in your territory within four or so weeks (turns). Add to this the very steep learning curve of the game and what you have is the formula for frustration.

I had purchased this game when it first came out and put it on the shelf almost immediately as unplayable. Time has passed and I've taken it down and tried it several more times -- after all, it is built on a very unique premise and could be a very good game if it just weren't so damned hard to play. Each time I take it down and attempt to play it, it winds up back on the shelf for another few years as my frustration is renewed.

Overall I would advise people against buying this particular game. Although the idea is good and possibilites exist for it, it just falls flat in the "fun department". The game will work on a Windows 7 environment, although I have video issues from time to time and have to restart the game to clear them up.

Recommendation: Pass this one up and wait for something better. There is a "Gangsters 2" on the market but I have not bought nor tried that game. It might be an improvement.

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Gangsters is the best game ever! At first it is a little difficult to understand all the buttons, but go through the tutorials and its a breeze. You'll love blowing up buildings and finding new gangsters and buying old cars. It does't get any better than this!

I gotta say this game ias worth the the. The learning curve is pretty big, but if you stick with the instructions, any idiot can overcome it.lol.I HIGHLY RECOMMEND this game to any avid Strategy game fan. This game was created to challenge your mind, and if you have a shoot em up wit, you have wasted your cash.But.... I would recommnend this game to any and everybody. LOTS OF FUN!