

The Messinas are the gang with the most cars in GTA Chinatown Wars, having a full count of 3 vehicles: grey Turismos and light and dark grey Cognoscentis as well as dark gang Burritos. When doing many deals with the dealers of the Mob, it will most likely attract police presence. They are described as the Mob, which could possibly be the Messina Crime Family. In the GTA Chinatown Wars drug dealing minigame they have two dealers named: Ricci and Vicini, who like to buy Coke and sell many Ecstasy bags at a low price. They are not hostile against the player unless he attacks them. They attack the player with Micro SMG's and are very tough when fighting on the streets. They can be spotted in Little Italy, with black clothing. But after the events of GTA Chinatown Wars it is most likely their friendship has ended. They have connection with the Jaoming Family. They later went to a meeting with Capra, where lots of Messina gangsters were killed, except Capra. Capra's car is strangely the same the Midtown Gangsters drive around their turf. Rudy told Huang that he had bugged Capra's car and he ordered Huang to steal Capra's car from a Messina-owned parking lot in North Bohan. In 2009, Rudy D'Avanzo tricked the Triad member Huang Lee to believe that his rival Jimmy Capra was an undercover police informant (in fact he was a Messina Made Man) and was revealing information about the Triads to the LCPD. The Jewish Mob hired a few rooms in the hotel, hinting the fact that they may be allies with the Messina family, but they are never seen together. Hary Hall runs a high class prostitution ring in the hotel. Harvey Noto, the boss of the family owns the upper class Majestic Hotel in Algonquin. Lopez himself took care of the job, resulting in a construction crane, LTA train and a private jet being blown up. He later revealed more information to Rocco, and he ordered Lopez' boss "Gay" Tony Prince to blow up all of the LTA officials with ties to the Messina family with Sticky Bombs. The union official revealed that the head of the LTA was working for the Messina's. Sometime later in the same year, Rocco Pelosi of the Ancelotti Family kidnapped a Union Official and had Luis Lopez torture him by hitting him with golfballs. However, Playboy X saw a potential business relationship with Amir, and he therefore hired Niko Bellic to take down all union workers at Amir's construction site. In 2008, the Messina Family prevented Yusuf Amir from continuing constructing by the labor union. Harry Hall is the Underboss/ Consigliere of the Messina family. Mark Volpe is a Capo whilst Fredo Volpe, another Capo and brother of Mark, has been a police informant since 1998. The family is believed to be led by Harvey Noto, who was able to establish himself at the top of the organization after a long and bloody power struggle. Not that I know how a drug operation works, but at any rate, the game manages an economic simulation where high risk drugs are at the center of it all! So, if you want a bare boned experience, be a sort of mastermind Heisenberg on your PC, take this one for a spin.The Messina syndicate is based in Algonquin and Dukes, but also controls Little Italy alongside the other families. Yap, because the game was not released commercially, it required no special authorization, but it certainly digs deep into the trade. But at any rate, what is most interesting about the game is the control you can expert on a little or larger network that manages drug related commerce. Nope, this game is pretty ugly, sporting mostly DOS looking interfaces like the utility NC, Norton Commander. One thing that you need to forget about is nice graphics. So, even if this is a 98 released game, there is a lot that needs to be conceded if you want to explore it. This, let us call it clone, is a trip that was designed, coded and brought into existence by a small, one man at times, studio, just for the sake of amusement. No sarcasm or irony here, this is a drug simulation game!ĭopewars is closely related to Drug Wars, a game released at the beginning of the 90s.
