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Epicmafia

By: Guest Reviewer

On: February 10th, 2010

Epicmafia

[This is a guest review by Cosmic Fool. If you’d like to write a guest article for TIGSource, go here.]

I live in Australia, and that means 2 things primarily; I’m lazy and no matter where I live, American ghettos usually have better internet than I do.

This makes it incredibly hard to play new games and when I do hit the bandwidth cap halfway through the month, it’s easy for me to get bored. Luckily, there are games out there for the man with dial-up speed net and I find it’s my duty to share this joy that’s accessible at 8kbs with the world.

Epicmafia is a nifty little game that streamlines and refines the popular forum game into something quite wonderful. If I were to market it to the fratboy, I would call it an online multiplayer class-based thriller in a mafia setting. For everyone else, it’s a game of wits and psychology as all sides of the match attempt to root out the others.

The multiplayer suite itself is quite robust for a browser-based game. Once you register (a free, quick, and easy process) it’s easy to jump into a match from the lobby or create your own match once you’ve learned the ropes. Quite quickly you’ll begin to understand both the game-specific slang and the easiest methods of beguiling your opponents.

The community is vibrant and very much alive and you’ll soon begin to recognize ‘famous faces’ around the community. Players are encouraged to play by the rules and not throw away matches carelessly due to an online high score board and one of the world’s only well-implemented karma systems.

In short, this game manages to create interesting and incredibly entertaining gameplay in a lightweight and easy-to-understand package. It is entertaining not on the basis of its amazing new engine but because of the variety of people and strategies you’ll come across. To get started will take you less than 5 minutes, so why not give it a shot?