Empire of Sin

Great to see the new patch and DLC finally released, and love that they upped the difficulty as that was my major issue with the original game. Having great fun with the new boss and his side-kick Silvia.

With a decade's worth of competition behind it, Empire of Sin attempts to copy everyone's homework while trying not to make it too obvious. Players of [b]Omerta[/b] and [b]Gangsters[/b] will immediately see the similarities, and along with it, every issue that riddled this game's predecessors. Its initial hours are to be praised; With a large cast of unique characters that all come with their own initial story, it's easy to get immersed in your narrative while short-and-sweet alternative missions keep you occupied between the game's progression loop. It only takes your first or second run of this loop, however, to spot just how shallow the ocean is... Its management aspect is almost identical to an idle sim, and its combat variety and difficulty scaling immediately default to more red shirts that take slightly more damage. The Bosses mechanics quickly boil down to traits and bonuses tier-listed into game-breaking or not worth playing at all, only serving to slightly speed up or slow down the monotonous board game format, making anything but smaller, faster playthroughs an unrewarding grind. Your [i]Gangsters[/i], as the ability to hire lackeys or goons is barred for you, and only available to the opposition, try their best to tear you from any semblance of realism; Adamant to bloat the game with horribly inaccurate portrayals and tokenism while swearing they're a hard-researched, deeply historical game. With everything falling short of the mark, the developers attempted to fix, it and soon after abandoned the title. And it's only DLC showing a clear Paradox-style marketing scheme of selling you basic functions for a price tag. And even if they were to continue development, you'd still find more authentic and varied gameplay from a 2001 game than this.

Update? Can it be? future please :)

There's an interesting idea here that never fully comes together. The individual components let it down in ways that the good parts (mob management, logistics of supply) can't overcome. The combat is rarely interesting and takes far too long for what it is (enemies are bullet sponges).

игра очень даже зашла. круто сделана, хотя я не любитель подобного рода игр, но всё таки

ok

The game is fun and good challenge the only downside is i think the DLC's should have been included in the original game at no charge.

the lack of any authentic gang composition instantly takes me out