John Carrizales AKA VictoriousGames presents:
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Kingpin: Life of Crime - Rags 2 Riches Modification
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A texture pack and realism modification for one of the most 
notorious games in videogame violence history. Rags 2 Riches 
breathes new life into Kingpin: Life of Crime. 


Installation:
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Extract zip file to your kingpin folder. a new mod folder 
called 'rags2riches' will be created.


Playing:
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run the included bat file to start kingpin.
start_game.bat
or
make a shortcut and add this to the command eg..
kingpin.exe +set game rags2riches 


Uninstallation:
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Simply remove the rags2riches folder.


Features:
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A texture pack that will enhance and sharpen all skins and 
textures in the game including the menus.

All enemy health amounts have been edited to make the weapons 
more devastating.

The maximum ammo that you can hold in your inventory for each 
weapon has been doubled except for the Flamethrower and the 
Grenade Launcher.

Flamethrower max ammo amount has been set to 900.

Grenade Launcher max ammo amount has been set to 48.

Ammo pickups for the bullets have been increased from 20 to 26.

Ammo pickups for the flamethrower have been increased from 
50 to 100.

The clip size for the pistol has been increased from 
10 to 13 rounds.

The player standard health has been set to 50 and the max health 
is now 100 which makes the game harder and more realistic.

Weapon mods never break or wear out.

Weapon mods now cost more then they did before.

Weapons now cost more then they did before.

The Heavy Machinegun without the cooling mod fires like the Heavy 
Machinegun with the cooling mod originally did, and the 
Heavy Machinegun with the cooling mod has almost no break 
in between it's 3 round bursts. EPIC!

The Tommy Gun's recoil has been halved.

The HMG's recoil has been reduced.

Shotgun reload time has been slightly shortened.

It's a little easier to blow off body parts so now it takes one 
good shotgun blast to take off someone's head instead of 2 or 3.

Pawn shops now sell all items no matter what map you're on so now 
if you got the cash you can buy whatever you want at the very 
first pawn shop in the game. THUG LIFE!

Flamethrower now shoots fire twice the distance it originally did.

The "get cash" cheat now gives 1000 dollars instead of just 100.

New blood splats and bloodpools.

Explosions from rockets & grenades don't gib bodies anymore.

Rockets now do more damage and are no longer weaker then the grenades.

You cannot blow off body parts with the pistol, magnum, 
silenced pistol, or the tommygun.

Rocket Explosions are now bigger then the grenade explosions.

The Tommy Gun now shoots a little bit faster.

Grenades take half as long to blow up.

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Thank you so much for downloading this mod. It's something that 
I've been wanting to do for a while with this overlooked 
yet classic game. Enjoy.

VG

johncrystal00@embarqmail.com