You’re trying to diversify your empire so that you have money coming in and you’re somewhat shielded from the effects of not having alcohol. Alcohol is good, but they make money on your own. But there are also businesses that don’t really need to have alcohol to run. If you run out of alcohol, those businesses can’t make any money. You would have been notified that, by the way, your brewery can only support this many rackets. You would have taken over a few derelict rackets. But generally, here’s what would have happened. It was probably already dismissed in your game, because it was later on. Romero: In part, what happens is that when you start the game - in the tutorial, players are walked into the game. I didn’t know how long I’d have to wait until they started earning. GamesBeat: I managed to take over a bunch of derelict buildings and turn them into rackets, but then I ran out of money fairly quickly. So in total real time, just over a minute. Romero: It’s every week, and each day is 12 seconds. GamesBeat: How quickly would I have earned things? Is it happening on a monthly cycle, where I get paid from my rackets? Now, in combat, it’s absolutely turn-based tactical combat. We didn’t want to always force you to … take a turn or pass a turn to somebody else, because that wouldn’t feel right. Some of those things, to best be told, should be done in real time. There are so many different pieces to it - the empire management, the RPG part of it, and the combat. With some games that are purely turn-based, we didn’t want to have that “so and so goes, then so-and so goes” during the racket-building aspect of it. For us, that felt like the right way to do it. What if I just did nothing, just hung out in one of my rackets? The city progresses. Depending on your difficulty level that you choose, obviously, but they will do that. If you slow down, they’re going to race ahead of you. GamesBeat: It feels like you’re always competing with the other bosses.
Image Credit: Paradox Interactive/Romero Games You can obviously pause the game, so you don’t always have to have it going. GamesBeat: Is the clock always ticking? Is this happening in real time, as opposed to a turn-based approach? The other bosses are crawling all over the map, same as you are. If you got the whole map cleared in a particular neighborhood, you could just zoom down in and see what everyone is doing. If you picked all 10 neighborhoods and you took a cab from your neighborhood into another one and cleared the fog of war, you’d see people exploring, maybe some people on an exterminate agenda. But if you zoom all the way out, there’s stuff going on everywhere. Everyone is pretty quick to war, because resources are scarce. I like playing a chaotic game of three neighborhoods with max bosses. You can play a game with all 10 neighborhoods, or with as few as three. GamesBeat: How much of the world is active at any given time? I remember pulling out and seeing how far I could zoom back. Like any strategy game, there isn’t one perfect path. But one of the guys on the design team plays that way: I’m gonna take this guy out before he has a chance to get off the ground. Or you can go straight into war, which would be a pretty ridiculously aggressive action, at least for me. Then you could, when you meet people - you could say, “Let’s get together and talk, have a sit-down.” You could threaten them. This sets up a pretty dynamic beginning state between all the ways this can go. You would trade an early game advantage with someone. I can do this for you and you can do this for me.
When you first get into the game early on, if you’ve played a game like Civilization - who else is on the map? Who’s here in my neighborhood? You would have come across at least a couple of people in the early game, and then you would have had the decision - this is one of the early important decisions, where you’re figuring out who you will trade early favors for: You’re new in Chicago, I’m new in Chicago. Everyone starts out as a level-one gangster, I guess is the easy way to say it. All the bosses have their different paths they take to Chicago. The only thing you would have missed there - if you’d started with O’Banion, you wouldn’t have gotten her initial introduction to the game. You could have picked any one of the bosses and been just fine, though. There was Goldie, who starts late in the early game. Goldie was the - we had two different ways. GamesBeat: I wonder if I went off in the wrong direction, because I played as Goldie.īrenda Romero: I was just looking to see who you played.
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