Who’d have thought a bunch of Hollywood-handsome dudes would find fortune in a life of crime? Omerta: City of Gangsters starts with some promise, just like the American dream that lures your Sicilian player character to 1920s Atlantic City -– but just like the gallery of good-lookers on its character creation screen, things soon go astray.

Omerta: City of Gangsters is a promising cross between a city-management-sim and a tactical combat game, putting you in the shoes of a crime family trying to battle your way to the top by planning your own heists, organising your own gangs, and taking control of territory.

Now you can try on those shoes for yourself and see whether the final game will grab your interest: we’ve just uploaded the 700MB demo to our file library. The demo features two levels from the full game, so that should hopefully give you a taste. Let us know what you think in the comments below!

Omerta launches this Friday.

If you enjoyed presiding over a corrupt, crumbling city in Tropico, then chances are you may also enjoy taking control of a crime family and battling your way to the top of Atlantic City in Omerta: City of Gangsters, the new game from Kalypso that’s due out as soon as next month. Set during the prohibition era, Omerta also features tactical turn-based combat — and competitive and cooperative multiplayer. We’ll have more for you next month, come February 1st.

You can find out more at the official site.