

The player must also begin recruiting more hoods to increase the strength of their gang by giving the appropriate orders.

To have any chance of winning the game, the player must begin expanding their territory by giving hoods orders to extort local businesses into paying protection money to the gang each week and making sure it's collected on time. The player must first give orders to the gangsters (referred to as "hoods") under their control, which are then played out during the real-time aspect of the game (referred to as the working week). Gangsters is played by alternating between turn-based and real-time gameplay.
