Cheat mode
Note: The cheats below will only work in version 1.1 or later versions. Now press ~ while playing to show the console window. Then, type in one of the codes below and press [Enter] to activate the desired cheat.

Hints & Tips

Hiring
You should not hire several people because they will remain until you hire them with the money they gave you. Now hire a henchman than a bouncer.

Starting strategies
A good idea is to take a bomber and bomb the police station if you can. Unless you are in the suburbs, locate the police station and set up a bomber in there. There will be no more cops.

Simply keep your eye on the newspaper man. He will tell you if you happen to have a price on your head or anything else. Also, answer the phone. At times it will be rats calling you, giving you information and at times you can get great prices for amazing things.

Being the worst player in multi-player, or not being able to get far in skirmish mode is not unusual. When you start a game in either online multi-player or skirmish mode offline, you will start in your office. You will have either one bouncer or one henchman. Normally if you wait ten seconds, a citizen will come in and ask for a favor. The citizen is normally a handgun person or bouncer. They will ask you to kill one or two people. If you do kill those people, the person you did the favor for will be in your control. When you have three men  you can do one or two things.

The first option is to wait in your office for a few good calls to come in. You should take any call and agree to it, if it includes ammunition. Atr times the caller will offer you a unit for money. The better the unit, the more money offered. At times they will ask you to kill a store manager, and in exchange you can receive money or units. It is best that you lay off of the "killing store manager" calls because the more units he is offering, the longer distance and harder the job will be. Normally you will have to go into enemy territory, which is not a good idea because the CPU starts off with a wife and sometimes more units, depending on what difficulty level you setthem as. Remain away from their territory until you have at least six men. You should have $3,000 in case the Chief of Police appears and asks for money. He will ask for $3,000, and if you do not pay him fast enough or not at all, all police will shoot you and try to get into your safe house. If you are in the suburbs, you will not need to worry about the police as there are none.

The second option is to extort or take over an ammunition store. The store owner will pay you money and all the supplies you may need.

If you finished the first option, go to the second option. After you are done with both of them, purchase a food-type place. This is where you will recruit men. Getting two restaurants or whatever, is a good idea. After that, recruit bouncers and henchmen. Do not waste your money on street girls, unless you have a good amount of men. The street girls are worthless in groups, unless you have good shooters to back them up. Get one to three bouncers and two or three henchmen, depending on your leadership level. The gunmen can be used instead of henchmen if you want. You will now have one boss with at least his second weapon. A strong force of one to three bouncers, and two or three henchmen or gunmen. When you have this, attempt to upgrade their weapons to the highest possible. Go on a extorting/taking over spree around with a few good businesses. Distilleries are excellent if you have restaurants because the restaurants can sell beer to gain more money for you.

Get married after you have Found a church. Meet a girl and spend the money she asks for (anywhere from $4,000 to about $18,000) and then find a church. Do not go walking around with your girlfriend looking for one or you will get killed by your enemies. Send a scout out to do it. Once you have a church, send your boss and a bouncer or two and a henchman or gunman there and get married. Then, return to the safe house. Make one or two henchmen stand guard at the windows, and mate with your wife. After a short time you will either have a lawyer child, a seductress child or an enforcer child. Enforcers could be the best so marry a sporty wife if you want better enforcer children. The Seductresses are also good. They can "convert" police and enemies to your side. The Lawyers are also good. They can hire people to work for you off the streets, instead of having to do it inside of a restaurant. The Enforcers just kill. They can hold two Tommy guns, where as the other under bosses do not carry weapons.

If you get a lawyer, set him up inside of your best store to raise the revenue. If you get a seductress, put her at the desk so that you can answer the phone while your boss if fighting or doing any thing else. If you have an enforcer under boss, take him with you on your raids and bring him into any fight. He has great accuracy, health and stamina.

If you get your leadership up high enough, you should get roughly five good melee units, six good shooters, and as many special units as you can fit into your gang. You should also raise three under bosses with your wife, upgrade the weapons of all of your men, set your restaurants and the like to sell beer to the back-room people, buy any special stores that generate goods like clothes, jewelry, beer, stolen goods and embarrassing photos, and get as many men as you can deal with. You should keep your store managers safe, and get vehicles when you can steal or buy them.

Lastly, kill your enemies. It is good to go straight to their safe-house. If you play a map where not everyp layer are playing, there will be a certain number of safe-houses with no human-controlled players inside, just hoodlums. This is a excellent chance. You should always use a fast-moving unit with excellent stamina to get around the streets, and look inside buildings fast and silently. This is also useful to see how many hoodlums are guarding stores and empty safe-houses.