Omerta: City of Gangsters Coming Soon

From the developers of the popular construction SIM Tropico 4, Kalypso Media’s Omerta: City of Gangsters promises in 05 of February to offer gamers a visually interactive and violent lesson in 1920s gangster culture. “Omerta” refers not to a city in Italy but the word created there at the height of gansterism to denote a specific set of rules — like a code of silence and an utterly uncooperative attitude toward authorities — that all gang members were to obey and still do to this day. It is theorized that the word derives from the Latin word for humility, humilitas, that ultimately was pronounced umirta and then omerta by some Italians.

According to a trailer (check below), gamers can create a diverse slate of original characters operating in the shadows of an unassuming urban location. While continually avoiding police and private investigators, they create a new underground speakeasy for Prohibition-era customers. Kalypso Media is even widely distributing a demo with the first two levels of Omerta: City of Gangsters that they hope will properly woo prospective buyers to plunk down their cash on an unproven commodity.