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Article #716576Re: New TBS combat game by the makers of Tropico
From: MetalGuru
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 10:48
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 10:48
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"Craig Hulett" <Craig.Hulett@comcast.net> wrote > "MetalGuru" <fake@mail.com> wrote: > >>"Omerta - City of Gangsters is a simulation game with tactical turn-based >>combat where players take the role of a fresh-from-the-boat immigrant with >>dreams of the big life who must work his way up the criminal hierachy of >>1920's Atlantic City." >> >>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLZ5DroSX-Y >> >>It's like Chicago 1930 (or whatever it was called, an awful game with >>amazing graphics) had a bastard child with Shadow Watch (decent game but >>much too shallow) and Omerta was the result judging from that clip. >> >>Should be out in a couple of weeks at gog.com - aren't they supposed to be >>in the GOOD and OLD games business? >> > > Lookling forward to Omerta. And GOG hasn't been "Good Old Games" for > some time, now it's just... GOG. There's a playable demo but I haven't been able to make it work, once it starts to load (the bullets in the barrel animation part) my computer freezes up solid. Drivers, directx, everything's up to date but I'm using good ol' XP 32bit which is probably the reason. My Win7/64 machine is out of commission for the time being unfortunately.
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