Omerta City of Gangsters

Platform: Microsoft Xbox 360
Release Date: 2008
Players: 1
System Link – N/A
Online: N/A

What the box says..

Omerta City of Gangsters puts you into the boots of a fresh-from-the-boat immigrant with dreams of the big life.

Work your way up the criminal hierarchy of 1920’s Atlantic City, starting with small jobs, recruiting new gang members and expanding your empire by taking territory from other mobsters.

Establish your own crime syndicate and become the de facto ruler of Atlantic City.

Under the Boardwalk – conquer a historically accurate Atlantic City with 20 unique districts featuring real-world landmarks in a story driven campaign or sandbox free play game.

Craft a criminal empire – Strategic real-time gameplay for planning coups expanding your territory, extorting the competition and bribing the authorities .

Nobody move! It’s a robbery – Lead your henchmen into elaborately planned tactical combat as they pull off bank heists, robberies, street battles and more.

Join the gang – 15 unique player-controlled characters each with distinct personalities, backgrounds, skills, equipment and ‘RPG-lite’ development trees.

Keep your friends close and enemies closer – Competitive and co-operative online multiplayer modes with persistent gangs.

What about the game?

Again as with a lot of the games in my collection I have never played them when I actually had a Xbox360 back in 2007. Omerta is almost a RTS strategy but feels like it could be home on a mobile device. In fact when I posted this video on YouTube a viewer commented that he had this game on the PC, which makes sense as this game would feel more at home with a keyboard and mouse.

The game puts in charge of an upcoming gangster boss, who starts off with a few tasks to do, which is the game introducing you to how to play the game, you’ll start by gathering information from an informant across the road from your house, he gives up some breweries which you then get to raid, and then sell the excess profits to your fence.

After a few rounds of doing tasks, you’ll get the first dive into combat, which is turn based and takes place in an indoor map. You’ll have to plan your movement and combat as limited points will be available, variable’s such as health, armour and your weapons, plus your characters own stats affect combat. After all your Action Points (AP) are spent, its the end of the turn and the CPU player then does his moves. It is very much like X-Com series, so if you like those you’ll probably want to check Omerta out.

I did enjoy playing this game despite a slow start and there is probably quite a lot to manage when the gang grows in size, as always I don’t rate the graphics or sound as these games are decades old and you can’t draw a comparison if you’ve played any modern game in the last decade. I will be keeping this to play for a raining day.

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