And this one honestly, is one the greatest games ive ever played. God I wish they would remake this and stick to the original mold...
Where do I begin? This game was just incredibly solid. It is turn based strategy at its finest, and is a hardddddd damn game. You have a giant city at your disposal. You start out by sending a few thugs out to recruit anything from lawyers, arsonists, weapons experts etc to lowly thugs and accountants.
You go out and buy legit businesses such as bakeries and pawn shops and set up illegal shops behind them like gambling dens, moonshine houses, casinos, speakeasys, brothels (thats right, whore houses), numbers rackets etc and start getting income, and your accountants fix the books to keep the heat off.
Send out thugs to patrol your areas of influence, rough up and extort shop owners and whatnot. Send them on missions to bomb, beat, kill and maim rival mafia's, politcal officials, cops etc. Buy guns, cars etc.
All of your missions and orders that you give your gang are carried out during the day after you hit play in an awesome top down over the city sequence where you can watch every thing that happens, and even take control of your gangsters if they are fucking up or getting ganked.
The daily newspaper reports on all the crime and activity that happend during the turn between you, other mobs, what mobsters/gangsters/thugs died. etc etc etc and a wealth of other info.
The only downside is there is a limited number of turns, 200 or something like that, then the game ends. Game is so in depth and awesome...I always wanted them to remake it and really expand on it...they made a sequel but it sucked balls and was nothing like the original masterpeice.
Surprisingliy this game is actually abandonware now, so if you want to try it out feel free:
http://www.mroldgames.com/e107_plugins/old games/gamelisterpc.php?idg=95
you wont be dissapointed. If you want to kill some hours playing a very enjoyable old game...this one doesnt dissapoint
Even the graphics arent bad to look at.
I THINK there is even a multiplayer option, so if anyone ever wants to give it a go, get with me. I'll be down to try it for sure.
if anybody tries this game and actually BEATS it...PLEASE tell me or take a screenshot or something...of all the time i wasted playing this ages ago, I never actually won a game haha