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Posted January 31, 2013
Gioco di tutti giochi.

Omerta: City of Gangsters, a realistic and complex 1930s mafia simulation with ruthless tactical turn-based combat and cooperative or competitive multi-player mode, is available on GOG.com, for only $39.99

Welcome to Atlantic City, the land of opportunity. Everything you heard about this place is true. If you know the right people and stay away from the law, you'll do just fine. There's plenty of mooks here, just waiting to be picked clean by a street entrepreneur, such as yourself. Just keep in mind, there's a pecking order to follow around here. You and your thuggish friend here report to me, I report to Sal the Shoe, and he reports to Fatman Frederico the Lieutenant. Who's above the Fatman, you ask? The Don. Who's the Don? That's none of your business, shmuck. You just got off the boat, you don't get to ask many questions. You just keep your nose clean and do as you're told. If you're smart, you'll get to meet the Don someday. Who knows, maybe you'll even get to be a lieutenant, someday. What? You came here to be the Don? Nice joke, kiddo, now scram.

Omerta: City of Gangsters takes the multi-layered city simulation (not unlike the one in the Tropico series), splices it with excellent turn-based combat, and puts it all in the middle of prohibition-era Atlantic City, ruled by Itallian mob families. The game offers real time "business" management in a vividly simulated urban landscape, with 20 detailed territories to seize control over. When your character, the aspiring criminal, and his mobsters need to settle "minor" differences with one of the competing families, the game enters a fully-fledged squad-based tactical mode that utilizes a system of initiative-based turns. With a highly replayable campaign and cooperative or competitive multiplayer mode, this game will satisfy all strategy fans, not only the ones fascinated with the 1930s period.

Don't be a mook, when you can be a wiseguy! You can start enjoying the life of a made man today, in Omerta: City of Gangsters, for $39.99 on GOG.com!
Posted January 31, 2013
Was looking forward to this, but the negative comments and opinions on other sites will make me wait to see what a patch is like.

Thanks for the heads up guys :)
Posted January 31, 2013
I'd never spend 40 bucks on a game.
Posted January 31, 2013
Just keep an eye out, I'm sure whatever patchable issues will be dealt with.
Posted January 31, 2013
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tfishell: I'd never spend 40 bucks on a game.
Call me a prophet if you like, but I have a feeling it's not gonna be that much for long.
Posted January 31, 2013
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tfishell: I'd never spend 40 bucks on a game.
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Titanium: Call me a prophet if you like, but I have a feeling it's not gonna be that much for long.
Probably.
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Fred_DM: XCOM:EU
THAT'S a new game I wouldn't mind seeing on GOG, naturally with the originals too. Why are they on Steam but not here? (DRM or pricing issues?)

Hmm, well the pricing seems pretty good. http://store.steampowered.com/app/7760/
Post edited January 31, 2013 by tfishell
Posted January 31, 2013
I've been excited for a new gangster sim for years, but when I realized the game was totally "quiet" in terms of previews, or that they didnt release it to mags/sites for early reviews, I got really scared. Like Jagged Alliance: Back in Action scared.

I'm guessing they rushed production and hoped to slip by into the black with the pre-sale.

I'll play it someday I'm sure but I'm glad I didn't pay 40. 2 weeks and it might be 20 sounds like.
Posted January 31, 2013
The game looks quite good to me, and some of my favorite games were made better by add-ons or patches so I can live with the idea this goes live with problems. Nearly every publisher would rather make deadlines then the best game they can these days, and I get why, as we all need to make money. Especially the developers of a computer game as these things really are not cheap to do.
The important thing is that this game looks nice and the game play seems good too, so there is a lot to be excited about with this game. Yet I do agree on the pricing issue, this is not a $40 game to me. When it is in a half-price sale then GOG might be able to muscle the money out of my fingers.

EDIT to fix bad spelling
Post edited January 31, 2013 by 011284mm
Posted January 31, 2013
I want to say a big thank you to Steam. I saw the game was released there too, I have no interest for the game, but I did notice the price of almost 45 euros on Steam. Yeah...thanks a lot.


Seriously though, thank you GOG for not treating us like suckers.
Posted February 01, 2013
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trusteft: I want to say a big thank you to Steam. I saw the game was released there too, I have no interest for the game, but I did notice the price of almost 45 euros on Steam. Yeah...thanks a lot.

Seriously though, thank you GOG for not treating us like suckers.
thank Kalypso. their pricing policy dictates that they charge European customers more for all their games. the reasoning behind this is probably the fact that Kalypso tends to publish German games made for German gamers (economic sims and strategy) which tend to sell much better in Europe than in the rest of the world. they're hoping that a price cut for US customers might boost sales overseas. i don't think it's working.


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LandoKonerko: I've been excited for a new gangster sim for years, but when I realized the game was totally "quiet" in terms of previews, or that they didnt release it to mags/sites for early reviews, I got really scared. Like Jagged Alliance: Back in Action scared.

I'm guessing they rushed production and hoped to slip by into the black with the pre-sale.

I'll play it someday I'm sure but I'm glad I didn't pay 40. 2 weeks and it might be 20 sounds like.
IMO the issue is not that the game might have been a rush job. it doesn't seem to be particularly buggy or incomplete. the problems are on the design level. unfortunately, this is pretty much impossible to fix without reworking major parts of the game, and that's not gonna happen, especially not if the game doesn't sell.
Post edited February 01, 2013 by Fred_DM
Posted February 01, 2013
Great release.
Posted February 01, 2013
This is a bit of an unusual request but could we get something similar to the "Update" alert on our account tab when a game comes out of preorder? That would be very helpful!
Posted February 01, 2013
A rather bad review here (3/10) if anyone is interested :

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-01-31-omerta-city-of-gangsters-review?utm_source=eurogamer&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=net-daily


TLDR

It's saying something that whenever the option came up to choose a combat engagement or pay some steep financial penalty to get out of it, I gladly handed over the virtual dollars. That's not how gangsters are supposed to work.

As a final cruel twist of the knife, the game's multiplayer mode simply consists of four fixed combat scenarios - two competitive, two co-operative. If you harboured dreams of battling your friends for control of a city, look elsewhere.

These moments come when a campaign map offers enough leeway for you to actually engage with its systems and build a self-contained empire. The need to distinguish between dirty money and clean income hints at depths that never appear. Then that mission ends, you're dumped on a new map, all benefits of your previous success magically erased as you start over from scratch again.

I'd gladly suffer through Omerta's jittery animations, its frankly bizarre accents and its crudely looped music cues if there was an actual game inside. There isn't. There's a wisp of a resource management sim that crumbles to dust long before the elongated story mode grinds to a halt, and turn-based combat that ranks among the worst the genre has ever seen. Sorry, Haemimont. On this one, you sleep with the fishes.
Posted February 02, 2013
Am i the only one who associates the guy on the banner with Spock ?
Posted February 02, 2013
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F1ach: A rather bad review here (3/10) if anyone is interested :

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-01-31-omerta-city-of-gangsters-review?utm_source=eurogamer&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=net-daily
Eurogamer gave Strike Suit Zero a 3/10 also...

Not sure whether it's Eurogamer doing unfair reviews, or that GOG are picking up duds.
Posted February 02, 2013
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gameon:
I get the impression that EuroGamer hates anything not AAA in general.

It's just a matter of finding someone that's played Omerta and seeing if they liked it. There seemed to be plenty of SSZ love here.
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