GAME CHICAGO 1930 SERIES

You spend ages just trying to walk around the place trying to find the next 'thing' to click on to progress the story. When you pick something up you have no idea what it is or what it's for. Things get even worse - the controls are fiddly, moving is about the only thing that is easy to do (by clicking at your destination), everything else is hit and miss. Why is an Ambulance not called for the maid? Why is the en-suite bathroom locked? Why did the guy who removed the key decide to stand on the balcony? And why didn't one of the testers at Spellbound say something about this? The whole game just seems too ridiculous and has no logic behind it at all. The maid has fainted in the kitchen - to wake her you need a first aid kit, and to get the first aid kit you need to find the key that unlocks the door to the bathroom. You can drag the body away and the photographer continues to take pictures of the empty space.

Something about two agents in the room called Smith and Smith - now I'm not sure if this was supposed to be funny (it wasn't) and I have no idea who said it. Using the mouse to click where I wanted to go I was soon greeted by another message. After reading it a couple of times I realized that this was supposed to be the cop talking. The action pauses - the screen turns green and you get a few words of text on the screen. You arrive at the apartment and are greeted by one of the local plod. I started as the FBI and my first task was to solve the gruesome murder of the local DA. To cut to the chase, I'm afraid to say that Chicago 1930 has to be one of the worst games of on any of the many formats I have ever played. However within minutes I realized there where going to be very few 'treats'. On paper it sounds a rather nice idea and even from the screenshots you think you could be in for a treat. Depending on who you change the game's focus is different - the FBI are hell bent on cleaning up the city whilst the mafia boys use every trick to make it dirtier.

It's a strategy/puzzle game in which you can choose sides and play as the brave FBI agent (Elliot Ness in all but name) or the local mafia. It was also a time of the mafia, police corruption and FBI agents trying to get their men. I know next to nothing about 1930s Chicago, other than it was a time of prohibition and it was harder to get a drink. Players can command the Mob forces, to use violent attacks and gradually take over an entire section of the city, or the FBI agents, whose missions often involve adventure-puzzle solving at the scenes of the crimes. A new feature in Chicago 1930 lets players set the game in 'slow motion,' allowing them time to assign precise, complex orders when needed.

GAME CHICAGO 1930 SERIES

Controlling a small squad of five characters, players must devise and execute tactics in a well-paced real-time flow, in order to accomplish a series of interdependent objectives on each level. Like the developer's Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive and Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood, this game presents RPG-style missions in a real-time strategy context. In Chicago 1930, Spellbound Interactive presents a duo of tactical action-adventures through Prohibition-era Mafia mythology.

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