Gangsters: Organized Crime
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| Original title | Gangsters: Organized Crime | ||
| Studio | Hothouse Creations | ||
| Publisher | Eidos Interactive | ||
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November 30, 1998 | ||
| platform | Pc | ||
| genre | Strategy game | ||
| Game mode | Single player , multiplayer | ||
| control | Keyboard , mouse | ||
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| medium | CD-ROM | ||
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Gangsters: Organized Crime (Original title: Gangsters: Organized Crime ) is a computer game from Eidos Interactive . It is set in New Temperance , a fictional suburb of Chicago , during the Prohibition period in the United States .
Style of play
The player commands one of four gangs that compete for rule over a city. Name, gender and appearance of the gang leader, in whose role the player slips, can be created freely.
You have the choice between fixed scenarios and an open game in which the design of the city, including the location of your own headquarters, is taken over by the computer. As a player you have an overview of the whole city from the start, but nothing is known about the headquarters, the territory and the activities of the opponents at the beginning, they are only discovered in the course of the game.
Gangsters alternates between turn-based and real-time gameplay. At the beginning of a week the player gives orders to the gangsters , which are carried out for one round (one game week) after the start of the round.
In the course of the game, the player must expand his territory by extorting shops for payment of protection money, which the gangsters collect. This in turn finances weapons, vehicles, legal and illegal businesses such as whisper bars and casinos.
Additional gangsters can be recruited through the use of assigned gangsters in order to expand the time-limited number of actions. They can be enlisted in the gyms, pool halls, the docks, and at the employment office. The gangsters have different characteristics such as intelligence, organization and use of weapons, which is why they are suitable for different types of operations, for example characters with high intelligence as team leaders and with high inconspicuousness are more suitable for covert operations.
All gangsters have an avatar and can be assigned individually by the player, but you can also transfer the commands to the team leader (Kapo). There is no limit to the number of gang members; a large gang can have more than a hundred members. All of their own gangsters have only one need that the player has to take care of: their payment. If the members of the gang can no longer be paid, the game is lost.
You can also bribe a lawyer, the police and the courts, and hire an accountant to cover up illegal income. There are various weapons and vehicles that can be bought at the beginning of each round and then used by the gangsters in missions. While the commands are being carried out during the week, it is no longer possible to issue new commands or to change them. However, you can give gangsters individual commands such as eliminate, for example to react to detected enemy players, or cancel missions.
All gangs have the police and the FBI as opponents. Many state officials, but not the FBI, can be bribed. If legal businesses are destroyed or robbed, suspicion against the gang leader rises due to the high illegal income, and the danger of his arrest and conviction draws closer.
There are several ways to win the game. For example, you can be elected mayor with the help of your own lawyer or be recognized as an honest entrepreneur. Another variant of victory is to eliminate all opposing gangs. These are eliminated because the gang leader is either driven into bankruptcy, convicted of crimes against the general public, or killed in an attack.
In 2001 a sequel to the game was released with the title Gangsters 2 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.gameswelt.de/gangsters-2-vendetta/review/seite-1,3162 Report on Gangsters 2 on Gameswelt.de