Over the last few years we have seen an explosion of online role playing games. On very well known game is TheMafiaBoss, usually shortened to TMB, and MafiaCorruption (MC). These games put you into the role of a gangster and you have to fight to protect yourself and/or your gang.
TMB has spawned a multitude of clones such as TheMafiaCrimes.com and Allmafia.com and, due to the site being created in PHP, it provides a good training ground for the programmers of tomorrow. TMB has rounds lasting 9 days and whoever ranks highest at the end of the 9 days wins, easy? Not quite. To be the highest ranking player you need a family, or a lot of physical money to buy credits so you can hire millions of du's, defensive units. You can get better protection by being part of a family and many families are part of a Union - a collection of families.
The families in the largest Unions, such as 13/Empire, use the Empire name for their families while others use names of their own choosing and just let people know they're members of a Union by writing it on their profiles.
MC is very different to TMB and it's clones. MC has everything you need right in front of you and you also have a City (Boston for newbies) to go to so you can buy weapons and hire whores! To get anywhere with MC you need points, or lots of cash. Thankfully the developers of this site have a crimes link so you can commit crimes and get cash. You can also attack other players but this takes up 50% of your energy and you have to wait for it to be replenished to attack again (you get 100% energy but it gets taken when doing things) by waiting or by using your points to purchase an energy refill.
MC also has offspring in the shape of PrisonStruggle, it is based in a prison, hence the name!, and it seems more complicated than MC. It is as enjoyable but a little bit harder to understand than MC.
M$ and the other big boys are currently eyeing up the Social Networking sites (as I mentioned in an article below) but maybe they should be looking at the Mafia games as they have a large fanbase and could potentially be turned into "crime-fantasy" social networking sites with the games at the core. I know that the developers of MC are adding new features and working very hard to make it even better for the players.
These games, I believe, are the future. They will keep adding new features, new members and will expand so much until just a few of them have the majority of Mafia-games' members.
http://www.allmafia.com/
http://www.mafiacorruption.com/
http://www.prisonstruggle.com/
http://www.themafiaboss.com/
http://www.themafiacrimes.com/
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