Mafia Wars is a multiplayer browser game created by Zynga. As of June 2009, the game has more than 2,500,000 users. It has won the Webby award for People's Voice Winner.
Mafia Wars is set in New York City, with the option for players to travel between New York and Cuba once they reach level 35.The game revolves around doing jobs to earn cash and advancing one's criminal empire. Players can also create mafias by recruiting players. Social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Friendster allow players to recruit from within their friends network to build their mafia and fight against other players. Players can also improve their stats by visiting the Godfather or making a micropayment.
Gameplay revolves around timers: players have limited energy, health, and stamina meters that slowly fill up over time. Using other mafia members that they have recruited, players can also fight other mafias. This results in the stealing of cash from the attacked mafia. The game operates on a level up basis. The player earns experience points by completing jobs. As they level up, more jobs become available, and extra features become available, such as robbing other mafias and visiting Cuba to expand their criminal empire.
The makers of a similar online game, Mob Wars, is suing Zynga over their launch of Mafia Wars, accusing them of copyright infringement. Zynga made some changes to Mafia Wars so it doesn't resemble Mob Wars as closely, but David Maestri and Psycho Monkey are pressing forward with their lawsuit.
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