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Chicago 1930 PC

A strategy and tactical game, largely resembling the popular Commandos series. The development team of Spellbound (creators of Desperados and Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood) is responsible for developing the full version.

Strategy | Gangster | Isometric view | tactical | interwar period

Chicago 1930 Release Date PC

12November2003

developer: Spellbound Entertainment AG publisher: Wanadoo Official website

English language game language: English

This real time-tactic-game called “Chicago 1930” captivates you to the time of prohibition, when the battle between police and mafia saw its golden age.

Chicago 1930 impresses with very detailed and varying backdrops offering dark courtyards and dubious brothels as well as monumental buildings of large towns. Embedded in the atmosphere of mafia-like activity as well as the style of the thirties, you have to succeed in procuring the leadership of the city to “your” side, always being conscious about possible ambushes.

Besides you have the choice between mafia and police. This decision influences the game play crucially:

With the police it is your job to clear up crimes at the scene of their happening, as well as protecting important persons from crooks or busting mafia-gangs. You have to track down and interrogate witnesses and collect information in order to finally get onto the mafia as a result from your razor-sharp considerations. It often comes down to a spectacular showdown, when the criminals are hunted down at last and defend themselves with baseball bats, shotguns as well as Tommy-guns.

You have to respond to a totally different challenge in the mafia campaign: Compelling arguments as well as hard words are required, not only to assert yourself against the police, but also against competing gangs.

However, acting circumspectly is necessary as well: you have to silence passer-bys as they have become witnesses of your abominations. You also have to think about tactics and ambushes for superior gangs and by doing so you always need to have your sympathy in the population in your eye.

Strategy is what is asked for!

Every district offers you new opportunities and resources like arms stores and practice establishments. The consistent story instantly transfers you into the role of the person pulling the strings. The characters being commanded by you are capable of improving their abilities as they game goes on. Ensure they become a team of specialists so you can keep up your chances as the battle about Chicago becomes harder consistently. Therefore smart planning and tactics are an assumption for the choice, assignments and the equipment of the up to five characters per mission.

Features:

- Very detailed graphics allow to experience the atmosphere of the 30’s vividly

- Characters capable of individual development and expansion of five qualities

- Two totally different gameplays for mafia and police

- Opponent intelligence of the latest generation

- Realistic tactic using “line of sight” and a visual display of noises in hidden areas

- Districts with a special benefit require strategic mission-planning.

Last updated on 10 December 2007

Game mode: single player  

Media type: 1 CD

User score: 7 / 10 based on 746 votes.

PEGI rating Chicago 1930

Age rating. The PEGI rating considers the age suitability of a game, not the level of difficulty. Game contains depictions of violence.

Chicago 1930 System requirements

PC / Windows

PC / Windows

  • Recommended:
  • Pentium III 800 MHz
  • 256 MB RAM
  • graphic card 32 MB (GeForce 4 or better)
  • 1 GB HDD
  • Windows Me/XP
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