Omerta: City of Gangsters (4 DLCs included)

Many people have had this issue. The GoG version is missing a crucial patch that actually lets you get past one of the early game missions, as well as fixes some almost game-breaking bugs (there's ways past them, but I had to restart a mission to do it.) It seemed alright, but pick it up on Steam when it's in a sale. I hear the Steam version has the patch.

Quick Review: Omerta is a fun little semi strategy game but is fairly shallow. Verdict: Pick this up on sale, Do not pay full price.

Bought it in the summer sale and am currently playing it. People giving low ratings should actually play the game instead of "rating" it based upon price and/or DLC. I would have prefered the DLC to be included, but I guess that's not possible for the a new game. As far as gameplay goes, the campaign is nice. Sandbox is okayish to get to know the game a bit, but once you do it's boring as hell. Turnbase gets knowhere near X-Com or Jagged Alliance, but overall it's fun.

Game credits roll after the first mission Main Ave. It seems to work normally when The Japanese Initiative DLC is installed. Thanks for the free 1 mission demo version, disguised as Full release with 4 dlcs. A little waste of download volume and time on my side.

The campaign is quite long (Steam says I put 106 hours into it but that includes the Japanese Incentive which I don't believe is included here), the combat is challenging, and I believe it has some replay value based on gameplay alone. In short: There is a world map where you take over control of joints, premises, and constructions and built legit to not-so-legit businesses. The main purpose of this is make money and affect your wanted rating. Should you engage in combat (sometimes it is scripted to), you are taken to a turn-based map where you either try to complete the objective and escape or simply slaughter all enemies and be crowned the winner (think X-COM in the 1930s with police and gangsters instead of aliens). The combat isn't as deep as X-COM but it gets the job done. Other reviews said that there are no opposing gangs that try to take over the world map and this is true outside of The Japanese Incentive. In the Japanese Incentive, the opposing gang can usually be rushed, combat carried out, and you can carry on with the mission objectives without the gang causing problems; however, some maps prevent this by scripting (e.g. one has the wanted level increasing ridiculously fast until you complete an objective). Yes, it is somewhat repetitive. No, it didn't stop me from playing. Yes, I wish it had more end-mission balance. No, the game is not easy starting out in most missions (reminds me of the difficulty curve in Tropico 3/4). What it will ultimately boil down to is whether or not you like this style of game. If you do, by all means grab it. If you don't, don't. Please note that most of the "helpful," critical reviews are almost two years old. My experience is based on a play through probably a year after the game was launched (bugs patched, DLCs added, etc.).