Talk about the Mafia and you think of Chicago or New York a couple of decades ago. You think of men in pinstriped suits who "make you an offer you can't refuse." The God Father is always at the back of your mind and crime is a way of life. So what does that Mafia have to do with Facebook? It is yet another free online game that is a facebook application available to users.

Available in the name of Mafia Wars this game allows you to take to a virtual life of crime. There is a whole range of guns and weapons that you can use from a baseball bat to a machine gun. Then you have get away vehicles that start off with a motorcycle and go up to and beyond an armored car. You can get protection in the face of armor. You can get friends to join your Mafia and increase your clout.

Then you can conduct petty crime like mugging and robbing the corner drug store and rise above that all to get to a Capo stage for your Mafia Don. Here you can help eliminate rival mafias. Plus you get to gamble on a daily chance ticket. This gives you more boosts for completing your daily crimes. Occasionally you will also pick up loot from other people you interact with on the game and defeat.

You have to consider three parameters in the game, these are your health, your energy and your stamina. Once any of these slips below the needed range you get incapacitated for a period of time and must rest to get active again. Each job you do earns you money. Then you need to save it from other Mafia gangs that attack you. To do so you may place it in a Bank, but you lose ten percent of the money when you deposit it in.

The virtual Mafia is a great place to be bad, without ever leaving your comfortable chair, and actually getting on the wrong side of the law. It is a facebook application which has many fans and a huge support forum as well. The game is addictive and can be enjoyed along with your full network of friends as you can send them gifts and get power boosts from them. One more reason why facebook is so popular with the social networking crowd.o