empire of sin

There’s a new trailer out for Empire of Sin, the upcoming gangster strategy game from Paradox Interactive and Romero Games. The game’s setting is exactly what it appears to be — 1920s Chicago. As any historian will tell you, every single human being in the 1920s was a dapper gangster wearing a fedora and wielding a tommy gun. However, it’s still a subject of debate whether or not all of them were Al Capone. You can play as Capone in Empire of Sin, as well as 13 other historical gangsters like Stephanie St. Clair — it’s your choice. Gameplay is much like XCOM, and takes place in a top-down view where you have to position your gang carefully to out-maneuver and out-shoot the competition. Your goal is to conquer buildings and bring them under the order of your syndicate…but you’ll have many rival gangs trying to do the same. Build A Crime Empire: Raise your criminal empire from the ground up in several seedy enterprises (be it speakeasies, union skimming,