The popular social networking game Mafia Wars is now available on the iPhone. The company behind it, Zynga, is the largest social gaming company and has produced other games for Facebook and Myspace. If you aren’t familiar with the concept of Mafia Wars, the name says it all. You start as a mob thug and work your way to the top pulling jobs and taking out rivals. These tasks earn you the cash and street cred to up your power and influence until you command a whole gang of loyal goombas. The game mechanic is liken to an updated text-based adventure, where you don’t actively “play” the game, but rather pick your tasks and see the outcome. Your character has stats for things like stamina and energy which are used up by pulling jobs and replenish over time.
This is another “time waster game” that people seem to get into from social networking sites. That is not to say that all games aren’t a waste of time, but it’s easy for any person who has ADD and an internet connection and/or time to kill at work. It requires virtually no skill, is easy to learn, and keeps the player steadily advancing. This probably isn’t a game for the genuine gamer, but for those random professionals that really like to “kick back” and let loose once in a while…or entertain themselves during a company meeting. Have fun becoming your own Tony Soprano.
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