Omerta: City of Gangsters- PC

Jazz Age music and style; atmospheric art and lighting; good voice acting

No real strategy or challenge; badly flawed combat; interface problems

This tactical combat would be way better if a UFO landed and Sectoids and Mutons started melting mobsters' faces with hot plasma. Actually, wasn't that pretty much the concept of that MIA XCOM shooter? Ah well. How does this laid-back gangster...

The strategy level graphics are very good and the music quite evocative, at least the first time round

The business sim side of the game is shallow, illogical, and hopelessly dull. The tactical level combat is half broken and just as uninteresting. Very limited multiplayer

You can see the basis of a good game here but Omerta gets almost everything wrong, from the shallow gameplay to the bland, characterless gangster atmosphere.