If you are a person who like things a bit rough and wanted to like games like Farmville but you could not because of the very ‘soft nature’ of the game then Crime City might exactly be the game that you require. Crime City is developed by ‘Funzio’, and they are right now one of the top android games developers. Crime City is a cross platform game and is available for both Android and iOS devices. With downloads up to fifty million in android only, it is one of most played games in the world. Crime City is massively multiplayer online role playing game (MMORPG), where you will rob and kill millions of online players, looting their money and their belongings, and create your terror in the empire. User interface is simple yet catchy, gameplay is decent with impressive animations all these things explains the reason behind 4/5 stars rating Crime City has in Google Play Store and Apple App Store.
There’s no offline mode in this game, and requires an internet connection to work. You take the role of a newly-born mafia kid, who will make his way up to set himself as the most powerful mafia of the game. There are sixty six different portions of map. To unlock these new areas you will need to rise your level and for that you have to acquire experience points. There are goals, another mafiaistic name is ‘jobs’. Completing these job will give you money and experience points. When your experience levels takes a step up you’ll get skill points. These skill points are used to upgrade your character. There are three types of currency in this game namely money, gold and respect, and of course stealing money is easier than laying hands upon gold, and respect something which you get when you show your strength.
There is a stamina and an energy bar.The stamina bar shows how many jobs you will be able to do in other online players’ hood before giving your character rest. You can use skill points to increase the stamina, and two skill points will be required to increase the stamina by one slice and every job will cost you one too. The energy bar represents how much more jobs you can do within the empire. The energy can also be increased by spending skill points. Both of these bars will require you to wait once they are depleted, or you can pay ten gold bricks to refill stamina or twenty for the energy.
Crime City can save its game data in your device, but to stay on the safe side it also has cloud option. You can sync it with Google Play Games to keep your progress secure, so that you don’t lose if anyhow you have to reinstall the game. Google Play Games also gives you the ability to play this game with same profile on multiple devices. Unfortunately, there are no achievements available for this game on Google Play Games which means no additional experience points!! If you want to connect this game with Google Play Games or even Facebook just go into game’s setting and sign in there.
In the start, you will be given an option to select your character’s gender and outlook. You can customize your profile later as well. You will spend first few minutes of your game following the tutorial which will teach you to rob and kill, getting around the map and setting your own hood. To attack an individual, tap to select that person and then tap again to attack. The character will walk upto the victim, pulls out his gun or baseball bat and attacks. Although you won’t see any blood spillage but attacking animations are smooth. As reward or loot you’ll get money, experience points, reputation and sometimes some extra goodies like guns, cars too and if you want to rob a building you’ll have to follow same steps. You can hire and add more mafia members in your group. For hired mafia there are six extra slots available one for each of Gunsmith, Assassin, Demolition, Muscle, Driver and Tech Expert.
You can expand your mafia further by inviting your friends to join you. You will be assigned a code which you can share with them. Inviting friends will also give you bonuses i.e. you will get a Crime Spree Rifle if you invite five friends or Crime City Exeiero if you invite hundred people, the only condition is they have to reach level three. Rest of the bonuses can be checked from ‘My Mafia’ in the settings. You can also create your own syndicate or join any other online by sending a request. Again, you will be assigned a syndicated number, if you create one, which you can give to your colleagues so that they don’t have to do struggle finding your syndicate and yes you will be the leader of your syndicate. The purpose of syndicates will be explained later in this review.
On the main Dashboard, you will find currencies, energy, stamina bar and your level on top. On the right bottom corner you will have options to switch between your hood and last location, go to menu and enter rivals section. In the middle of the dashboard, you will be seeing map of your current location, overall this map is interactive you can pinch to zoom in or out, touch on different places to move your character there. You can select any building, any person to rob within or without a job. In your hood you can set up money buildings, defense buildings, boost building and do decorations, even expansion of your hood is possible.
Money buildings generates more after a time period. The generated money and the time required varies from building to building. These building includes from likes of Pizza Parlor, Gas Station till huge malls. The cheapest one costs one hundred dollars (in-game currency) while the most expensive can go upto five hundred gold bricks and nine hundred thousand dollars. Defense buildings protects your hood from invasion. These buildings includes Guard Tower, Empire Watch and many more. The cheapest starts at five hundred dollars and goes upto one hundred fifty thousand dollars. Boost Buildings are limited time based offers, which varies. They can have different building which can either increase the armor protection of your hood or the overall money earning by a percentage. Decorations include trees, sidewalk, flags, recreation and loads of other stuff to make you hood attractive.
Rivals section shows the list of players online, their levels and tells mafia size. To attack a user you can press the attack button which will, after couple of second, you will get the result of the fight between. An opponent with higher level and mafia size will surely beat you. If you want to visit their hoods, you can touch ‘Rob Hood’ and you’ll travel to your rival hood quickly.
Now let’s take a look at Goals part of the game. The three categories of Goals are Solo, Limited Solo and Syndicate. For Solo and Limited Solo you don’t need to have a Syndicate while for the last one you need one. In solo you will find different jobs that you can complete. These jobs will range from waging war against other online mafias, attacking and robbing their hoods till locating and killing people from the empire. To do a job tap on its name, then you will get description of what you will be doing and below description you will find rewards which you will get from completing the goal which can be anything from money and vehicle to a new mafia member. If the job is empire based then you will have an option of visit, which is basically a shortcut to get to the destined place quickly, or you can move there manually by pressing map icon and select the location. If the job is against other rivals them you will have two options in front of job, one is for attacking and other is for visiting rival mafia’s hood; where you can rob every building and attack an opponent from here too.
Limited Solo goals are somewhat special tasks, they are time dependent and will disappear after twenty four hours but don’t get sad as they will be replaced by new goals. These goals are tiny bit lengthy and difficult than the regular goals and rewards as special too. Syndicate goals are a part of game’s Player vs. Player (PvP) mode, ‘Battle for Empire City’. You will require a syndicate to access Syndicate goals. Syndicate goals includes likes of beating other syndicate or robbing them etc. Nothing different than Solo’s. It’s not compulsory to play the via visiting goals, you can play this game Grand Theft Auto style too, visiting different locations on your own attacking and robbing all the times you want.
Battle for Empire city is an event based Player vs. Player mode. Every event is a time based and ends after aforementioned period, remaining time can be checked below the top heading. Every event has its own ranking system. A player will be ranked separately as an individual and a contributing member of a syndicate. You can check your rank from leaderboards.
In Battle for Empire City you are placed against another syndicate to battle for sixty minutes. You can attack other syndicate’s headquarters for hot-zone bonuses. You will rage fights against the other syndicate’s members. Winning a battler will give you points and the person having the most points will win the battle. There is a separate health bar for this battle, which will deplete if you attack any member or headquarter. Ranking is in descending order with the person and syndicate having the most points having the top rank in their respective category. There rewards for each category given only to top four thousand positions in syndicate’s category and top six thousand position in individual’s category.
In syndicate category, the rewards are unique and special for the top players but becomes shared and average valued as you proceed down the lane i.e. number one syndicate will get Star Spangled Godfather including fifteen percent additional explosive attack power for a battle, while the top four hundred position will get Spangled jacket. In short top rank will have all the rewards and number of rewards decreases progressively leaving only one reward for last position holders. In individual category the rewards are given individual at the top then to ranges i.e. Special car for number two position, and baseball bat for four thousand till four thousand and five hundred rank.
That’s not all, you get to completely customize your player, change hairstyle, clothes and even skin color. You can upgrade your buildings to give you better income and defense, of course upgrading building requires time and investment. You can also upgrade your character. There are four classes namely Tycoon, Agent, Enforcer and Goodfella. You will start off as Tycoon class. There are two ways to upgrade one is to either play the game and build yourself till you reach Goodfella, the top class, or you can pay one fifty gold bricks to reach there. You will have an inventory where you can see you possessions. There is also a bank where, for a fee, you can deposit your money so that when you get robbed by any opponent, your money stays safe. Did I tell you that newspaper will notify you about your robbery.
The latest version of this game is 6.4.1, this game requires android 2.3 (gingerbread) and iOS 6.0 to run without any issues. This game isn’t graphics intensive so it should work on almost every internet enabled device with minimum mentioned operating systems.
This game also supports in app purchases. So if you want to have a jump start you can always pay. There are several different packages available to choose from. You can buy both gold bricks and money. Cheapest bag of Cash which gives five thousand in-game dollars will cost £3.15 while the most expensive is for £63.17 which give one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. The packages of gold starts at £3.15 and gives fifty gold bricks and the most expensive will make a hole in your pocket by taking £119.73 and giving three thousand and one hundred gold bricks in return. And unfortunately you cannot purchase reputation.
In Crime City, you need a lot of money, gold, steel, and respect in order to get the items you need to progress through the game. You can get these items through the app store, but it will cost you real money, and that really adds up. If you would like to get the money, gold, steel, and respect for free, then download our Crime City hack tool, which is available right here from the website.
Look at the picture below and you will notice how easy the Crime City hack tool is to use. Simply enter the amounts of money, gold, steel, and respect that you would like to add right into the options menu.
You need to download the free hack tool for Crime City , which takes about 20 seconds, and then it automatically installs in about 20 seconds as well. Select either Android or iOS, then enter the amounts of money, gold, steel, and respect that you would like to add to your gaming account.
Tap on “Start” to begin the hack tool, which takes around 30 seconds, and then open up the app on your device as normal once the hack has finished. At that point, you will see the money, gold, steel, and respect have already been added to your gaming account.
The time changing trick also doesn’t work to regain stamina and energy in this game, maybe because they have synced game time with server rather than device.
There’s only one trick which I know is you can attack the same opponent couple of times if you aren’t able to make your mark over others.
Overall the game is decently pulled together, with proper tutorial, funny actions of the character while attacking, hilarious comments like breaking nose and legs makes the game enjoyable. The User interface is easy to get hold on, although we would have liked more guidelines for menus and Player vs. Player mode, but one can understand without any headache. Out of millions users in the world you will always find someone waiting for your wrath. You can build gangs and rule over the mafia world.
The gameplay is amusing and doesn’t get repetitive with time which make sure you don’t get bored of it. Better overall graphical representation in the game, and something more than pressing attack button in online mode would have took this already good game to next level. Things I didn’t is limited stamina and health despite being different for each mode it goes empty pretty quickly, mere few seconds.
Although you don’t have to wait much like you normally do in other games, but why it’s even needed? For developer’s earning greed? Mostly high-end equipment can only be purchased with gold brick, which are rare, so once again you will be pushed towards in app purchases.
This game is more like a Farmville meets Grand Theft Auto. The sound are pretty good too, you will hear you character making weird sounds while attacking. The background music is soft pop, which doesn’t gives headache nor feels repetitive. We would have liked addition of a bit cop-thief action as well, but even without it this game is good to go. I’ll surely keep this game in my device to kill some boring time.
Artwork: I’ll give a 7/10 to Crime City here. The artwork is cartoonish and childish, the map is colorful, the animations are hilarious, although the detail is lacking but it fills in all the right spaces required to keep you in the game.
Music & SFX: I’ll give this game again a 7/10 here. As I already have told that the noises which characters makes are quite gangsterous-funny, you will sometimes hear robbery alarm which is a nice addition. Overall sound system is pleasant.
Story & Originality: Crime City gets a 5/10 for story. There are many gangster/mafia type games out there, this game too follows the same pattern doesn’t feature anything new here. Due to the gameplay users might not feel that the story is just another rotten one.
General Gameplay: I’ll give Crime City an 8/10 for its gameplay. The gameplay is excellent, it doesn’t requires additional swings to get hold of it. There’s always something new getting added into the game, new challenges and tasks which will give you always something new to do. The two things which greatly disturbs are less user-interactive online play and the presence of stamina and health bar which, for some people, might break the flow.
Addictiveness: This game gets an 8/10 again. Crime City’s fun factor combined with the easy learning phase and superb gameplay makes sure that you will prefer this game to spend your free time above others.
Overall I’ll give Crime City 7.5/10.