Empire of Sin, Brenda and John Romero’s intriguing mobster-themed strategy game, will no longer release this spring as originally announced, and is now scheduled to arrive in a hail of sharp suits, fancy hats, and tommy gun fire sometime this autumn.
If you’ve yet to receive the elevator pitch, Empire of Sin drops players into the seedy side of 1920s Prohibition-era Chicago, where the goal is to create your very own crime empire from the ground and become mob king or queen.
That involves a combination of business smarts and, inevitably, violence, as you “schmooze, coerce, seduce, threaten, or kill” your way to success. Oh, and you can expect a healthy dose of turn-based tactical combat, reminiscent of XCOM, when there’s blood to be shed.
