Mafia Multiplayer

Perhaps the most popular mafia multiplayer game anywhere in the world today is mafia wars on Facebook.com. While it's not a true action game in the sense that it has an interface with killer graphics and live action, it is still one of the more addictive games that we've ever found. Mafia wars can be played on several social networking sites such as Facebook and tagged, and allows you to build a mafia empire starting at street thug and work came your way all the way up to Godfather.

With more than 25 million players around the world, you can't really get much more massively multiplayer online role-playing game than that. It requires no knowledge of the back story, there isn't much theory crafting to be done, but it is as engaging and addictive as a text-based RPG can get.

Mafia wars is obviously based on a type of role per turn system, when that type of thing is necessary at all. Most of the game is built upon acquiring the necessary weapons, vehicles and tools needed to complete quests called jobs. The jobs earn you cash, experience and loot they can be used to complete another series of jobs later on.

Perhaps the most important aspect of the game falls under the classification of managing a certain kind of power called energy. Each job requires you to have certain materials and equipment as well as enough energy in your pool to complete the job. You regenerate energy at the rate of one point for every five minutes whether you are logged into the game or not.

Managing your energy is one of the things that you have to learn how to balance and master if you are going to progress through the levels of the game very quickly. For the avid gamer, this will come quite naturally. For those who are less experienced with role-playing games, it may take you just a little bit of time before you get used to doing jobs in certain orders and which jobs to select over other jobs if you plan on building a large mafia very quickly.

Of course, none of this is entirely necessary. For the casual player mafia wars can be just as interesting even if it takes your months to complete the levels. There is always something to watch for or work toward in mafia wars so for the micro manager, it's a dream come true. Just like you might do if you were a real-life Godfather you can spend your time hovering over mafia wars watching every detail of your empire as you build it.