History VideoGame / Gangsters

* EveryManHasHisPrice: While you cannot bribe the FBI, you can bribe police officers, the Chief of Police, the jury in a trial, and even the judge - as long as the player has a lawyer and enough money.

* MolotovCocktail: A "Torch" order will consist of trying to throw a Molotov through the window of the building instead of starting the fire from inside it.

* KillEmAll: A possible way to end the game in both single-player and multiplayer is simply to kill all the other gang bosses.

* ManualMisprint: The Manual claims that giving the "Kill" order to a Hood will cause them to stab the target if the knives skill is high or if the cops are nearby. In the actual game the "Kill" order is exclusively for firearms, and can't even be issued to anyone not armed with a gun.

* EnemyMine: Its possible to ally with other gangs. If only two gangs are left and allied to each other, they both win, so it's possible to try to team up with another gang to fight the rest.

* Determinator: The FBI. Beyond trying to lay low, there's nothing you can do to get them off your back. They cannot be bribed, and violence against them only makes them more aggressive.

* AllCrimesAreEqual: Played with. Your hoods will occasionally be freed if arrested after a gunfight seemingly for self-defense reasons if the other Gang started it first, also heavier crimes such as gunning down officers of the law and bombings will attract Police attention more than a simple protection racket.

* Determinator: The FBI, beyond trying to lay low, there's nothing you can do to get them off your back as they cannot be bribed and violence only makes them more aggressive.
* EnemyMine: Its possible to ally with other gangs, if only two gangs are left and they're both allied, they win so its possible to try to team up with another gang to fight the rest, its even possible to send Unarmed Hoods to assault enemy gangs so if the draw a gun and start firing the Police will attack them.
* EveryManHasHisPrice: While you cannot bribe the FBI, you can bribe Police Officers, The Police Chief, The Jury in a trial and the Judge as long as the player has a lawyer and enough money.
* GangUpOnTheHuman: Completely averted, Police don't go after your crimes any more than they do the other crime bosses and the some-what aggressive behaviour of A.I generally actually means they're likely to start fighting each other before the player.
* GameBreakingBug: Its ill-advised to speed up the working week, as characters don't fully "speed up" with the clock, meaning its impossible to fully complete multiple orders that aren't short.
* GuideDangIt: How stabbing a hood to death works is entirely different than the manual claims, The kill order is only for guns, instead, a stabbing will happen if a Hood follows the assault target into a building.
* GunsAkimbo: Present as the best fire-arm in the game with a noticeably higher price than even the Tommy Gun.
* KillEmAll: A possible way to end the game in single player and one of the possible win conditions in multiplayer is simply to kill all the other gang bosses.
* ManualMisprint: The Manual claims ordering a Kill order will make the Hood stab the enemy if the knives skill is high/Cops are nearby, in the actual game the Kill Order is exclusively for firearms and cannot be issued to anyone not armed with a gun.
* MolotovCocktail: A public Torch order will consist of trying to throw a Molotov through the window of the building instead of starting the fire from inside it.
* OneHitPointWonder: Everyone, the stealth stat does influence the chance an enemy will miss a Hood but other than that everyone goes down in one shot.
* PowerUpLetdown: The Tommy Gun and Dual Pistols fall somewhat into this, while effective with high firearms skilled hoods, the fact is that the shotgun/rifle are simply more practical for any hood that isn't a sharpshooter as they have a much higher chance to hit at Close/Long range respectively and a fast rate of fire doesn't help much when everyone dies in one hit, its simply more practical to have a more hoods armed with shotguns and rifles than the more expensive and skill-requiring Tommy Gun/Dual Pistols.
* RangedEmergencyWeapon: The Revolver is this, its way cheaper than other weapons but without a very high firearms skill Hoods will take several misses to kill a single enemy, even at point-blank range.

* StupidSurrender: Any wanted hoods (Or hoods that were caught doing a crime and escaped in the same working week) will automatically completely give up if an unbribed Police Officer sees them, even if they have a Tommy Gun and gunned down several cops the same week, they won't even be freed if another Hood guns down the officer arresting them.

* TheRoaringTwenties: The setting for this game, and it portrays at least the criminal element of that period with some degree of accuracy, regarding how criminal organizations carried out their business (with illegal activities, such as numbers rackets and extortion, financing expansion, and resorting to violence only when push comes to shove).

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''Gangsters'' is a 1998 PC game published by Eidos Interactive. It is a curious mix of TurnBasedStrategy with RealTimeTactics gameplay, and unsurprisingly involves the creation and management of an organized crime outfit vying for control of a fictional city in TheRoaringTwenties.

!The game provides examples of:

* AllCrimesAreEqual: Averted somewhat, Your hoods will occasionally be freed if arrested after a gunfight seemingly for self-defense reasons if the other Gang started it first, also heavier crimes such as gunning down officers of the law and bombings will attract Police attention more than a simple protection racket.

* WideOpenSandbox: The city is pretty large, and you can start off doing almost anything you want in it. There are so many options for things you can do, it's easy to get lost (and eventually lose the game) on your first few attempts. This is probably one of the reasons the game failed commercially, despite having a very good replay value.

* MolotovCocktail: A public Torch order will consist of trying to throw a Molotov through the window of the building instead of starting the fire inside it.

* One-Hit-PointWonder: Everyone, the stealth stat does influence the chance an enemy will miss a Hood but other than that everyone goes down in one shot.

* One-Hit-pointWonder: Everyone, the stealth stat does influence the chance an enemy will miss a Hood but other than that everyone goes down in one shot.

* OneHitWonder: Everyone, the stealth stat does influence the chance an enemy will miss a Hood but other than that everyone goes down in one shot.

* ArtisticLicenseEconomics: Somehow buying two .45's is more expensive than a single Tommy gun.

* AllCrimesAreEqual: Averted somewhat, Your hoods will occasionally be freed if arrested after a gunfight seemingly for self-defense reasons if the other Gang started it first, also heavier crimes such as gunning down officers of the law will attract Police attention more than a simple protection racket.

* RangedEmergencyWeapon: The Revolver is this, its way cheaper than other weapons but without a very high firearms skill Hoods will take several misses to kill a single enemy.

* EveryManHasHisPrice: With the exception of the FBI, Police Officers, The Police Chief, The Jury in a trial and the judge can all be bribed easily as long as the player has a lawyer and enough money.

''Gangsters'' is a 1995 PC game published by Eidos Interactive. It is a curious mix of TurnBasedStrategy with RealTimeTactics gameplay, and unsurprisingly involves the creation and management of an organized crime outfit vying for control of a fictional city in TheRoaringTwenties.

The game was exceptionally complicated for its time, and hardware-intensive to boot. Unfortunately, its execution (particularly the difficulty in staying on top of things during the real-time portion of the game) made it quite difficult to play, and the copious statistics and limited in-game instructions made the whole thing utterly confusing to newcomers. Nonetheless, it was one of the first games to delve so deep into the operations of criminal organizations during the 1920s, and one of the first games to portray such a large-scale "living world" in real time.