To survive, you navigate through bars and back alleys, hiring other "thugs" and "hired guns" to help you take on rival gangs.

You start in the gutters of Skidrow with nothing but a pipe and a desire for payback.

Kingpin: Life of Crime - The FPS You Weren't Supposed to Play YouTube• 6 Jul 2024

Unlike many shooters of its time, you can holster your weapon to talk to NPCs, take on side quests for cash, and buy upgrades at "Pawn-O-Matic" shops.

Kingpin: Life of Crime - The FPS You Weren't Supposed to Play

The game is famous for its extreme profanity, graphic violence, and "gangsta" culture, featuring a soundtrack by the hip-hop group Cypress Hill .

The world combines 1930s gangster aesthetics (Tommy guns, trench coats) with a gritty, 1980s industrial dystopia.