Crime doesn’t pay, but it plays well. We love gangsters in our movies, from black and white noir thrillers to Scorcese blockbusters and even Star Trek theme planets. While cinema elevates organized crime into Oscar bait, video games often make mobsters into punching bags and bullet sponges. There are plenty of games with cigar-chomping boss types to thwart and an army of fedora-wearing thugs to beat up. Is there a game that goes beyond these one-dimensional portrayals? Do any games show the same reverence as our movies? Or are they all just trying to be a couple o’ wise guys?
