How to Play Mafia Wars

There are some people who have been playing games their entire life. If you're not one of those people, but find yourself interested in playing a game that has a little excitement that your everyday routine may be lacking, then the Facebook game mafia wars may be just the thing for you. With more than 4 million players, mafia wars has become one of the most popular Facebook games ever and it can be quite addicting.

Unlike Farmville, which can chew up all of your time if you let it, mafia wars can be done catch as catch can whenever you have time. The reason for this is that each time you do something in the game it costs energy. In order to regain enough energy to do something else, you have to let your character rest. Since you can't do anything while you're resting, you might as well go vacuum or run errands or whatever else that you normally do with your time.

Mafia wars does not require quick reflexes and a lightning quick Internet connection like your standard first-person shooter game, making it an adventure quest game that almost anyone can play. To get started you'll need a Facebook account. After that it's just a matter of typing mafia wars into the search box at the top of your Facebook page. You will be taken into account permissions screen where you need to press the allow button and you'll be right in the game ready to create your character.

You will be asked to choose a character name, you probably want to make it something that sounds a little tough, and then you will be asked to go do your first job. You will soon see that doing a job requires nothing more than clicking a button. In just a few minutes you can be leveled for with more than $5000 in your pocket.

It it doesn't move this quickly forever, because somewhere near the end of level 4 you will simply run out of energy. This is what we mean by you can go do something else while your energy is being restored. You gain one energy every five minutes. This means that level for with 25 total energy it will take a full two hours for you to regain all of your energy.

And those are the basics to getting started playing mafia wars. It's very simple, but can be very addictive as well. All you need is a Facebook page and you can be well on your way to living a vicarious life of crime.