Mafia City is a violent, crime-filled Facebook game, a much more graphically rich game than the original Mafia City... and by "graphically rich" I mean both that it looks more like FarmVille than the original Mafia City did and that it's, well, got pools of blood. You Can Kill and Rob Facebook Strangers in Mafia City
Your Facebook friends will help you in the sequel to Mafia City. They'll help keep you safe while you take a bat to the knees of some Facebook stranger.
Sorry, Facebook strangers, that's the way it's going to work. At least I won't know your name or any real information about you as I step over your corpse and rob your casino.
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I do believe that Mafia City, which I saw a preview of late last week, will prove to be the most anti-social social game the CityVille power-house Yottagame have ever asked people to click on. And therefore.... the most fun.
Your first building in this mafia game online is a casino. Your first purchase is a gun. You're a mob guy, five years out of prison, having taken the fall for a big crime, etc, cliché, etc. You can lay out buildings across a plot of land just outside of Las Vegas (see the screenshots in the gallery above), as if this was FarmVille, except that instead of barns and wheat, you're building the "Crystal Lab" or a "Growhouse."
You'll be able to head to Casino Row, one of about eight zones that the game will launch with in the coming weeks, all of them full of people for you to shoot or be shot by. It's a violent life, being in the mafia, and this game is a celebration of that. The folks at Yottagame showed me an encounter in the city, a fight between the players and Dom Bonelli, a "boss" character who took a few clicks to be shot to death.
"The game is pretty dangerous," Mafia City producer Ian Wang, told me as he played through the action. I thought that was just a marketing line. But compared to other Yotta game, this one is like swimming with sharks while bleeding from a lacerated arm. The game creators let you arm yourself. They let you pick a fighting style, and collect and craft weapons that will give you a distinct attack and defense set-up. The reason that they're giving you more choice is to make it more interesting when people start attacking. You fight bosses like Dom Bonelli, but you also have unfriendly computer-controlled people trying to set fire to your casino. This is worse than some pest in your farm because, as Wang described it to me, "you can lose just about all the resources you have." Fail to protect your money in a dirty bank and it can be stolen. People can rob the factory where you create illegal DVDs or beat up your henchmen.
The "people" causing you a lot of grief in Mafia City aren't merely computer-controlled enemies. They'll often be real people, thanks to the unusual multiplayer mode that makes this new Yotta game so unlike the other Yotta game.
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