Gangsters: Organized Crime is a strategy developed by Hothouse Creations, released 30 November 1998 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Gangsters: Organized Crime is
Gangsters: Organized Crime is a strategy game developed by Hothouse Creations and released in 1998. It was published by Eidos Interactive. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Gangsters is played by alternating between turn-based and real time gameplay. At the beginning you give orders to the gangsters (or 'hoods') under your control, which are then played out in front of you during the real-time aspect of the game (the working week). To have any chance of winning the game, you must begin expanding your territory by giving your hoods the order to extort businesses into paying protection money to you every week (which must be collected). You will also have to begin recruiting more hoods for your gang as soon as possible by giving your hoods the recruit order. Additional hoods can be recruited from gyms, pool halls, cafés, the docks and the unemployment office. The…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
Gangsters: Organized Crime launched on 30 November 1998, within three weeks of Half-Life, Suikoden II, Mario Party and Thief: The Dark Project.
Released around the same time: Half-Life, Suikoden II, Mario Party, Thief: The Dark Project.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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