Become a made man as you vie for power in a Chicago-like town during the
prohibition era. Gangsters is the strategy game where crime pays--and with
dividends! You can don the knuckle dusters and “persuade” the local
business owners to pay you for “protection” services. You can get your
hands even mo...
Windows XP / Vista / 7, 1.8 GHz, 512 MB RAM, 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 7 (compatibl...
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Become a made man as you vie for power in a Chicago-like town during the
prohibition era. Gangsters is the strategy game where crime pays--and with
dividends! You can don the knuckle dusters and “persuade” the local
business owners to pay you for “protection” services. You can get your
hands even more dirty and navigate in the cutthroat world of politics. Or
simply go for the throat as you order your wiseguys to execute your enemies
in the streets and show the city who’s “da boss”. Gangsters gives you all
the power you need to get things done.
Played in a vast city filled with over 5,000 individual characters,
Gangsters feature real-time action in a highly detailed isometric terrain.
The game sports an easy-to use strategy planning interface, to
authentically recreate the seedy, violent, and ruthless world of gangland
mobsters. Remember, real power is never given, it’s taken!
ATI/AMD compatibility notice: Gangsters: Organized Crime requires graphic card drivers version 13.4 or older.
Run illegal businesses: extort, intimidate, bribe, and ruthlessly whack the opposition.
Become a Godfather and control every aspect of a 1920's-era mob "family".
Break the law and taunt the system or go legit and get elected Mayor!
I got this in a games collection when it was budget ware. The idea seemed promising but the game was a huge disappointment. It is a mix of round based and real time strategy. You hire and give orders to your gangsters at the weekend and they will do them in real-time throughout the week. However you can't control them when in real-time mode which is very annoying and boring to just watch most of the time. There is also a huge learning curve for building a proper crime industry without getting bankrupt. Graphics are very repetitive, but look mostly okay. Still: the game was no fun for me. I uninstalled it pretty quickly.
I've been lucky enough not to have the issues others have mentioned RE the menu screen not loading properly and/or the mouse freezing; I've found the video does play up occasionally which is fixed by saving and re-loading, and it crashes a bit too, but the auto-saves have spared me most of the grief so far.
For reference, I'm playing it on a Win7 i5-4690 w/GTX970.
The manual alone barely scratches the surface of the depth of this game, I'd recommend following the manual through the tutorials and then Googling a few guides (IGN, Youtube) to explain the mechanics in more detail and get ideas on how to approach a strategy, before expecting much success. A couple of examples of this are that the tutorials only demonstrate the rudiments of extortion, when there are plenty of other (more satisfying) ways to make money, and I don't think keeping your off-the-books income proportionate to your legit income (and dodging taxes) to avoid the notice of the FBI is mentioned at all.
As has been said, the planning interface isn't exactly intuitive (why does it want me to intimidate soup kitchens?!) and the RTS part of the game can be unforgiving, but be warned; once you get used to the interface and the mechanics start making sense to you, the amount of time one can sink into this game without realising is staggering.
If the idea of goading your rivals into starting massive gunfights with each other and the police, and/or managing the logistics of a large scale moonshine network appeals to you, you should probably look into this game.
This game can't played on Win 10. The rival gangs attacked my HQ every week since week 6th. I've been playing this game since 2001. It's a good game but it needs improvement. No other game, neither Gangsters 2 nor Omerta: City of Gangster can replace this game. Gangsters:Organized Crime is based on unlimited random mapping, unlimited random characters and unscripted events. These features makes this game great!
Fantastic Game with much depth and replay value. Games such as this are far and few in between these days.
This game used to work on my old XP machine with the DOS Box installer but now in 2018 with my new Windows 10 I get errors when installing and the game does not start up properly. GoG please fix this !!!!
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