HOW DOES THE BANK SURVIVE? • WHO’S IN CHARGE OF THE CITY? • WHERE CAN YOU GET YOUR WEAPONS FROM? IT’S ALL INSIDE!

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GANGSTERSCRIME DOES PAY...

WANNA BE A GANGSTER IN A CHICAGOSTYLE CITY OF THE 1920’S?

Wanna control an underground organization dealing inextortion, illegal liquor, prostitution, violence, intimidation,gambling, gang warfare, bribery of officials, permanent eliminationof individuals and a host of moneymaking activities?

Can you simultaneously maintain a decent and honestreputation on the surface by supporting good causes, helping thepolice and running legitimate businesses? Will you be able to meetthe challenge of balancing these two personas to gain influence andcontrol over the city?

Gangsters is a highly original game that blends together threemajor elements of successful strategy gaming; real-time gameworld, interaction man-management and business management.

The aim of this game is to build your gang and business empireto rule the city. To do this you will have to beat three other gangsoperating in the city, and avoid arrest by the authorities. Thespecific win conditions balance a need to gain wealth, honour andinfluence.

Gangsters is set in a non-specific Chicago-like city in the 1920scalled ‘New Temperance’. The city, in which most of the in-gameactivity takes place, is viewed by an isometric multi-level mapcontained in the main window of a Windows 95 style environment.

Thursday, February 14, 1929 One CentNo.

MASSACREOne February evening in NorthChicago, seven well-dressed menwere found riddled with bulletsinside the S.M.C Cartage Co.garage. They had been lined upagainst a wall, with their backs totheir executioners and shot todeath. With the exception of Dr.Reinhardt H. Schwimmer these

men were mobsters working underthe leadership of gangster andbootlegger, “Bugs” Moran. Withina few seconds, while staring at abare brick wall, these seven menhad become a part of Valentine’sDay history: the St. Valentine’sDay Massacre.

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CORRUPTION?POLICEDuring the height of prohibitionand the never-endingcompetition between gangsterrivals Al “Scarface” Capone andGeorge “Bugs” Moran, bloodywarfare was nothing new to theauthorities of Chicago.

However, investigators on thescene found the Valentine’s DayMassacre to be somewhatpuzzling. The victims weremobsters, with an endlesssupply of weapons and wellknown capability for brutality.