Mafia Wars
Mafia Wars is a multiplayer Social network game created by Zynga.
In Mafia Wars the gamers play as gangsters building their own mafia. The players fight other players online and complete tasks to gain rewards and strength in the game. Mafia Wars was the 2009 Webby Award People's Voice Winner in the Games category. Mafia Wars is available on several social networking sites and on the iPhone and Android phones.
Mafia Wars was released to the public in April 2008 with the first playable in-game city called New York. In Mafia Wars, the jobs in each location are divided in tiers. The job tiers in New York have titles which are the ranks in the Italian-American mafia (like Capo, Hitman or Consiglere). The tiers and jobs in New York are unlocked gradually as the player gains levels in the game. Some NY tiers have bonus fights called Boss Fights, which the player can choose to fight, but those fights are not required for mastering. After mastering jobs, the player achieves the tier title which can be added to their name in the gamer's profile.
Properties in NY can be bought by all players depending only on how much game cash the player has amassed. The properties in NY generate income for the player or special parts for building fighting items. The currency in NY is dollars. Mafia Wars is available on Yahoo, Facebook, Sonico, as an iPhone App and as a Google Chrome app.
On facebook, as of August 2010, Mafia Wars had up to 45.5 million monthly accounts created. As of April, 2011, Appdata.com reports that Mafia Wars players have shrunk down to 10.7 million monthly active accounts, with approximately 1.7 million daily active users.
