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Gioco di tutti giochi.

Omerta: City of Gangsters, a realistic and complex 1930s mafia simulation with ruthless tactical turn-based combat and cooperative or competitive multi-player mode, is available on GOG.com, for only $39.99

Welcome to Atlantic City, the land of opportunity. Everything you heard about this place is true. If you know the right people and stay away from the law, you'll do just fine. There's plenty of mooks here, just waiting to be picked clean by a street entrepreneur, such as yourself. Just keep in mind, there's a pecking order to follow around here. You and your thuggish friend here report to me, I report to Sal the Shoe, and he reports to Fatman Frederico the Lieutenant. Who's above the Fatman, you ask? The Don. Who's the Don? That's none of your business, shmuck. You just got off the boat, you don't get to ask many questions. You just keep your nose clean and do as you're told. If you're smart, you'll get to meet the Don someday. Who knows, maybe you'll even get to be a lieutenant, someday. What? You came here to be the Don? Nice joke, kiddo, now scram.

Omerta: City of Gangsters takes the multi-layered city simulation (not unlike the one in the Tropico series), splices it with excellent turn-based combat, and puts it all in the middle of prohibition-era Atlantic City, ruled by Itallian mob families. The game offers real time "business" management in a vividly simulated urban landscape, with 20 detailed territories to seize control over. When your character, the aspiring criminal, and his mobsters need to settle "minor" differences with one of the competing families, the game enters a fully-fledged squad-based tactical mode that utilizes a system of initiative-based turns. With a highly replayable campaign and cooperative or competitive multiplayer mode, this game will satisfy all strategy fans, not only the ones fascinated with the 1930s period.

Don't be a mook, when you can be a wiseguy! You can start enjoying the life of a made man today, in Omerta: City of Gangsters, for $39.99 on GOG.com!
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F1ach: It's saying something that whenever the option came up to choose a combat engagement or pay some steep financial penalty to get out of it, I gladly handed over the virtual dollars. That's not how gangsters are supposed to work.
Yeah, who ever heard of gangsters bribing police and government rather than having a shootout?
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Kiactus: "Gioco di tutti giochi" means nothing in italian XD
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Fallen_Zen: Perché? Sono curioso. :)
Non so cosa volevate scrivere, ma al massimo sarebbe stato più corretto " Il gioco di tutti i giochi" o altro. Ma senza sapere cosa voleva scrivere non so, come ho detto prima :S
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Kiactus: Non so cosa volevate scrivere, ma al massimo sarebbe stato più corretto " Il gioco di tutti i giochi" o altro. Ma senza sapere cosa voleva scrivere non so, come ho detto prima :S
Io non sono l'autore del testo, chiedo per curiosità, perché sto imparando l'italiano da due mesi :)
Post edited February 03, 2013 by Fallen_Zen
Is the game really so bad or are people just having had too high expectations?
I wonder why this game was some hyped for an indie game. It was placed very big and prominent on Steam, GOG and GMG.
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Darkcloud: I wonder why this game was some hyped for an indie game. It was placed very big and prominent on Steam, GOG and GMG.
Perhaps they did a deal to promote them.
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Trilarion: Is the game really so bad or are people just having had too high expectations?
High expectations. I had fun with the demo but after realizing of what little content exists I'm going to wait for further patches and DLCs and a lower price.
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gameon:
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ShadowWulfe: I get the impression that EuroGamer hates anything not AAA in general.

It's just a matter of finding someone that's played Omerta and seeing if they liked it. There seemed to be plenty of SSZ love here.
I stopped reading Eurogamer months ago. Their reviews are usually biased (usually towards the games they're being paid to advertise), so they're pretty worthless.

Plus, ever since they fired a writer for 'outing' another journalist who sent promotional tweets about a game she was getting kickbacks for (the 'journalist' and the company she works for brought in their law firm and threatened to sue so Eurogamer refused to stand by their writer even though he was in the right) I've refused to even click on a link to Eurogamer. Horrible company, and one of the worst gaming websites anyway, IMO.

What's even funnier about this game and proves beyond a reasonable doubt how pathetic a download service Gamersgate now is when it comes to everything being 'only available on Steam', you can't even buy Omerta DRM-free there. It HAS to be activated on Steam.

Needless to say, I think it's 6 months since I bought anything on Gamersgate and I stopped promoting the pathetic company on my website a long time ago. They'll be dead by the end of the year, IMO. Let Steam take them over. They deserve it.
Post edited February 05, 2013 by Bloodygoodgames
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Nirth: ... High expectations. I had fun with the demo but after realizing of what little content exists I'm going to wait for further patches and DLCs and a lower price.
Little content & high price basically means that it delivers not enough return on the investment. I guess with a four times lower price the ratings would be at least one star more.
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Bloodygoodgames:
Good to know I'm not loony to think so. People seem to talk about EG with way more respect than they seem to deserve.
They seem worse than that one website with the really obnoxious reviewer that I can't name.

How is Omerta?
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Bloodygoodgames:
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ShadowWulfe: Good to know I'm not loony to think so. People seem to talk about EG with way more respect than they seem to deserve.
They seem worse than that one website with the really obnoxious reviewer that I can't name.

How is Omerta?
I think people label them as "mature" as they allow people to say what they want on their forums etc. They respect the site because of that, like some sort of hip rebels. But the thing is, you are not likely to get informative reviews from such a culture of reviewing like that on Eurogamer.
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Bloodygoodgames:
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ShadowWulfe: Good to know I'm not loony to think so. People seem to talk about EG with way more respect than they seem to deserve.
They seem worse than that one website with the really obnoxious reviewer that I can't name.

How is Omerta?
Sorry, can't comment on that yet. It's on my wishlist but my backlog is so huge I just can't justify adding any more games to it until I've finished at least the 10 I'm currently playing :)

EDIT: Whoops, it's now 9 --- I did finally finish Torchlight yesterday, or at least killed the Big Boss but still have the endless dungeons to venture into, which I'll just keep doing a few minutes a day when I feel like doing a bit of grinding.

Still one of the best games I've played --- EVER -- meaning Torchlight 2 will be an instabuy the minute it appears on GOG regardless of the backlog :)
Post edited February 05, 2013 by Bloodygoodgames