

which make them suitable for different missions.

The hoods have many different attributes such as intelligence, fists, knives, etc. Additional hoods can be recruited from gyms, pool halls, cafés, the docks and the unemployment office. You will also have to begin recruiting more hoods for your gang as soon as possible by giving your hoods the recruit order. To have any chance of winning the game, you must begin expanding your territory by giving your hoods the order to extort businesses into paying protection money to you every week (which must be collected). At the beginning you give orders to the gangsters (or 'hoods') under your control, which are then played out in front of you during the real-time aspect of the game (the working week). Gangsters is played by alternating between turn-based and real time gameplay.

A sequel, Gangsters 2: Vendetta, was released by Eidos in 2001. It is set in the fictional Chicago suburb of New Temperance in the Prohibition era. Gangsters: Organized Crime is a strategy game by Eidos Interactive for Windows, first released in 1998.
