By Jim Rossignol on March 9th, 2012 at 9:00 am.
The first footage of Kalypso’s Omerta – City Of Gangsters can be seen below. Kalypso report that it’s “a strategy game focusing on the activities of organized crime in Atlantic City in the 1920s”, and it’s looking like an improved version of the engine they used for the recent Tropico games. The boss manages his criminal resources and has a familiar real-time strategic overview of what’s going on in his city. However, we can expect it to be quite different when it comes to gunplay. Kalypso explain a bit more: “The turn-based combat in Omerta – City of Gangsters focuses on the tactical command of “The Boss” and his henchmen. Cover and stealth are essential parts of any shootout in the game.”
Sounds intriguing. It’s set for release at the end of 2012.
09/03/2012 at 09:13 Echo Black says:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangsters_%28video_game%29
A modern take on that? Sounds like a plan to me!
09/03/2012 at 09:24 gingerpembers says:
Ah yes! That is exactly what came to mind for me as well.
I loved that game, awful interface and controls, but the core concepts and gameplay were brilliant. If this is similar, im all over it!
09/03/2012 at 09:46 Bluerps says:
Aah, that’s what it’s called. I remembered that game too, but I thought it had “Mafia” in the title and couldn’t find it…
09/03/2012 at 09:55 c-Row says:
There was a game called “Mafia” on the C64 which was pretty similar, so maybe that’s where the confusion came from.
09/03/2012 at 14:19 BenLeng says:
I loved Mafia but there was a stupid bug, where you could use counterfeit money to buy even more counterfeit money, so effectively giving you unlimited cash. I vividly remember how disappointed I was after I found that exploit – memory works in strange ways…
09/03/2012 at 11:02 Jimbo says:
I loved ‘Gangsters’, even though it was kinda bad and I had next to no idea what was going on.
09/03/2012 at 11:08 Shazbut says:
I also enjoyed Gangsters, but couldn’t understand what to do and why I would always start losing around turn 4
09/03/2012 at 13:00 cw8 says:
Loved playing Gangsters back then, awesome gameplay.
09/03/2012 at 19:47 Gnoupi says:
Ah, Gangsters, I loved the music (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7HTKHxLsa4), I loved the ambiance, and the gameplay.
But I don’t think I ever managed to pass the 4th week without another gang killing me, in my HQ…
Never managed to find how to stop them, years ago. I should give it another try, one of these days
17/03/2012 at 12:24 Danieldsouza says:
Finely after 11 years of waiting.
09/03/2012 at 09:19 El Mariachi says:
“The Boss?” He prefers just plain “Nucky,” thanks.
09/03/2012 at 09:52 Gozuu says:
Indeed!
09/03/2012 at 10:29 wodin says:
Hurrah another multi player only game I want as single player.
09/03/2012 at 19:02 ulix says:
Where the hell does it say it’s “Multiplayer only”? Where does it say it even has multiplayer?
How would multiplayer even work, with a real time strategic map and turn based combat?
Ahh, right… it wouldn’t….
09/03/2012 at 10:51 yurusei says:
Reminded me of Evil Genius, for some reason.
09/03/2012 at 10:56 netpaydays says:
“The Boss?” He prefers just plain “Nucky,” thanks.
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09/03/2012 at 11:39 westyfield says:
In lieu of a report button, this dude is totally a spambot. Go about your business.
09/03/2012 at 14:19 Frosty840 says:
Really rather unimpressed by the lack of a report button on this new system.
09/03/2012 at 11:05 Eukatheude says:
Not really related, but this reminded me of a similarly themed management game back in the 90′s/early 00′s which i used to play a demo of. I think “The syndicate” was in the punchline or something. You could build stuff and you could control directly some minions if i recall correctly, but not much besides that, i was like 10.
09/03/2012 at 13:18 JYzer says:
Sounds like Constructor, or its sequel Street Wars. Great fun they were.
09/03/2012 at 14:21 Frosty840 says:
Both available on GOG, both listed as singleplayer but *actually* multiplayer-capable over LAN.
Gloriously chaotic and vindictive games. First one is bestest.
09/03/2012 at 11:12 Ravelle says:
I enjoyed Tropico 4, excited to see what they’ll bring. :D
09/03/2012 at 11:18 sfury says:
Developed by Haemimont Games – the developers of Tropico 3 & 4.
Kalypso are just publishing, it really bothers me when the actual developer gets no mention at all – same was when Tropico 3 or 4 got announced. :/
09/03/2012 at 11:21 Rawrian says:
Hmm, Italian Mafia didn’t have a lot of influence in Atlantic City in the 1920, doesn’t quite fit with the “Omerta” name.
09/03/2012 at 12:57 Secundus says:
on the other hand boardwalk empire is pretty big . you can bet that they’ll drop an inevitable chicago/new york expansion too
09/03/2012 at 11:23 Kollega says:
A strategy game about the mafia and the Roaring Twenties? That’s really cool, we don’t get enough of those. Even if i won’t be playing it myself, i appreciate the diversity it brings.
09/03/2012 at 11:39 Kingmarzo says:
From the description of the youtube video its going to be gangsters 2 rather than the original which is a shame…
09/03/2012 at 11:51 CalleX says:
That would be a real shame as the first gangsters game was far superior with its deep management and economy etc.
09/03/2012 at 14:53 TNG says:
Yes, I also thought “Gangsters! Wooohooo!” when I read the article but from youtube it looks more like Gangsters 2 or Gangland…
09/03/2012 at 11:43 wodin says:
The article should state it’s an MMO. Funny enough only yesterday i found some info on the game trawling IGN for any future turn based games. Maybe a petition should be sent requesting single player game. Not that it will achieve anything.
09/03/2012 at 11:58 Khemm says:
Wait, WHAT? An MMO? Here I was, thinking we’ll get an awesome turn based game set during the American prohibition era, only to have my excitement immediately crushed!
Are you sure? The press release mentions multiplayer and single modes.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=465663
09/03/2012 at 13:31 Kelron says:
There’s one of those old browser based “MMOs” called Omerta, are you sure you’re not getting them mixed up? This looks like a single & multi player strategy game to me.
09/03/2012 at 16:24 wodin says:
Thankgod for that. The info I found last night only stated online only.
Apparently there will be a 15 hour single pl;ayer cmapign. WHich all said and done isn’t that long and I expect will be tacked on.It is the online game being relaunched and spruced up.
http://uk.gamespot.com/omerta/
http://www.shacknews.com/article/72752/omerta-city-of-gangsters-coming-from-tropico-dev
09/03/2012 at 16:29 Khemm says:
Please don’t suck please don’t suck… So much promise.
09/03/2012 at 13:39 buzzmong says:
I know it’s due to the visual theme, but I can’t help feeling they’ve “borrowed” actual art assets from Mafia.
09/03/2012 at 19:32 linzhanq says:
http://ppt.cc/9iT1