Omerta: City of Gangsters 1.0

Omerta: City of Gangsters starts out intriguingly, you pick your character from a list of photos and then choose options of things you have done in your past which will affect your stats going in to the game which adds a nice RPG element to the game, then you are thrown straight in to Atlantic City where you meet up with a couple of other like-minded criminals who refer to you as boss all the time.

The story says you are fresh off the boat from Sicily but strangely you arrive with a thick Brooklyn accent, and your new acquaintances to be said also have classic east coast accents although one of your cohorts Squiggs has an incredibly annoying voice.

You’d expect a gangster game to be action packed and violent but this game is more about building an empire in the prohibition era and your first and only way to make money when you begin is to raid a couple of illegal speak easy’s taking their booze and then selling it on to make a tidy profit.

As this download is just the free demo it doesn’t really allow you enough time to get deep in to the game and get a real feeling of what it is about it is also not clear when the demo ends as one of your henchmen goes off to do a job you are told to wait, after waiting for around 10 (real time) minutes it became apparent the game was not going any further it would have been great if this could have been made more clear.

The free demo does not allow you enough time to get in to it and see if it is a game you may enjoy the full version and this seems something of a strange practice as after playing the demo you may feel a bit annoyed that you are given so little of the game and in that little there is nothing that would make you want to go out and purchase the full version.

Sometimes crime doesn’t pay!