Gangland

"Craptastic in every way. When good ideas go Bad"

OverAll 2/10
Graphics 3/10
Multi Player 3/10
Story 2/10
Gameplay 2/10
Extras 1/10
Support 1/10

Man was i disappointed in this one. So you look at the box and see great big FUN words like extortion, guns, Mob, multiplayer, RPG/RTS. ''Wow,'' you think, be your own Mob Boss take over rival families kill or extort everything in your way. Must be fun. Well the words that should be on the box are Annoying, buggy, horribly hard to control, and WASTE OF TIME.
Graphics-3/10
At first it looks cartoony and kind o in character but then you realize that its not cartoony its just bad. Most of my bugs were graphical in nature so the coding is bad too. The animations can be interesting but all effects like lighting and explosions are just plain bad.

Story 2/10
Hey you...go whack that guy. Then go whack your brothers. When your bored try a challenge mission and run around and try not to do die for ten minutes. No really thats it. Oh you can have kids too.

Gameplay 2/10
OK...you spend three missions running around a whacking people for your uncle dreaming of the day you get your own family. After several attempts and no ability to save( very irratating) you get your own family and sit at the big chair. Then the phone rings, and a guy come to you for a favor, and the chief of police comes to you for a bribe, and you get attacked. Thing is this stuff doesn't stop happening. THE DAMN PHONE WONT STOP RINGING. JUST STOP RINGING FOR THE LOVE OF PETE...PLEASE I BEG YOU. You can only answer the phone sitting at your desk. But you cant sit at your desk and take over businesses at the same time. But you can still HEAR the phone over 40 miles away. This game ended just about there for me. Plus if you care to know the camera is horrible and the controls are really counter intuitive. The mouse buttons are reversed so right click does stuff while left does nothing. And it takes you 45 minutes to get anywhere. Even with a car.
The game also preaches tactics in fighting when you read the phone book sized manual. No tactics. They dont work. There is no pause or a easy move and hide commands. Numbers win point and shoot. Lame.

Multi Player 3/10
Get a seductress gain a huge mob of random people and go kill your buddy. Thats it. Or lock the doors on every gun shop in town. For real fun send in a bomber and whack him in one. First one to do this wins. I had hoped that this would be a real fun gain ground give ground game. Its not. Your buddy could have EVERY shop in town and billions of dollars. But you have a seductress with the powers of Cleopatra and can turn the entire world into your friend. Give your army some guns and send em you win. Lame.

Extras 1/10
Where....I knew I saw them somewhere. Oh yah in the lying box.
Support 1/10
You got to see this. Apprently the makers of this game KNOW their game sux. So they delete help/bug/complaint posts on their board. Try it. go post something and watch it get deleted so they can possibly fool one more person into burning their money. Who on earth did these guys bribe to get decent reviews from reputable game magazines.

OverAll 2/10
So bad I HAD to write a review. Thats bad because I am very lazy. Buy this load at your own peril.

Reviewer's Score: 2/10, Originally Posted: 03/29/04