Mafia Wars
Mafia Wars is a Multiplayer Browser Game created by Zynga for Social Networking Sites. It has already won People’s Choice Award in the Games Cateogory.This featured game is available on iPhone as well.
Mafia Wars is set in New York City, with the option for players to travel between New York, Cuba (level 35+), and Moscow (level 70+) and now introducing Bangkok (upon unlocking items from New York levels, level 18+) with Las Vegas to be released or launched in year 2010.
The game’s mane goal is to Establish and Advancements on one’s Criminal Empire by doing what the advancement requires like doing Jobs, Fighting Criminals to gain Experience and Cash.
A Player can create Mafias by recruiting their own friends from their friend list or by using Cash to hire extra Mafia members to fight against any other enemy.Players can visit Godfather or make Micro payments to improve their Stats.
The main thing to be considered is that the game has Timers that (That is, it is again a kind of Real Time Simulation game which has time to do certain task)for:
- Health
- Stamina(To fight other players)
- Energy(To do jobs) which slowly recharges over time.
The purpose of recruiting Mafia members is that, players can eventually fight other players, which may or may not result in the theft of cash, “icing”, or “death” of the other player.
Players who manage to complete special tasks (e.g., winning fights against bigger mafias or winning fifteen fights in a row) are labeled as having accomplished an “achievement”, resulting in a bonus for the player.
It is a leveled game. As they level up, more jobs and features become available, such as the ability to visit Cuba or other Cities to expand their criminal empire.
Zynga with time released other Cities to be visited and doing different tasks:
- Bangkok
- Cuba
- Moscow
- Las Vegas(Coming Soon)
The latest one being Bangkok to which only few players have access to Remove the burden so that the systems don’t crash.
The current ranks/episodes are the following:
- Street Thug
- Associate
- Soldier
- Enforcer
- Hitman
- Capo
- Consigliere
- Underboss
- Boss
- El Soldado
- El Capitan
- El Jefe
- El Patron
- El Padrino
- El Cacique
- Baklany
- Boets
- Brigadir
- Avtoritet
- Vor
- Pakhan
There are three classes that a player has to choose from when they first start the game. Each class offers a reduced amount of recharge time to one of the three timers. The three classes are:
- Maniac: : This class has an energy recharge timer of 3 minutes, unlike the other two classes which have a timer of 5 minutes.
- Mogul: This class receives money from properties every 54 minutes as opposed to the usual 60, as well as a 5% increase in profit from businesses in both Moscow and Cuba. Moguls with Rackets will get 10% more cash from their rackets.
- Fearless: This class receives a health recharge time reduction (every 3 minutes as opposed to the usual 5).
With inputs from Wikipedia
