Mafia the game

[ALPHATT]

Well I sugest all of you to visit www.mafia-thegame.de

Anyway I love that game and those dozens of mods for it(a few is made by Hungarians!!).
It has a special feeling that Gta dosen't have (but GTA Vice City had a pretty good feelin' too).

Wel what do you think 'bout it

Ps.:I'm currently playin' it(To be more precise I play Alive mod)

[LimpingFish]

I think you're too young to be playing it.

Otherwise, I quite liked it. Preferred it to GTA, to be honest.

[Mr Jake]

As far as gangster games go, I like Godfather:Blackhand edition (Wii). I'd say I'd rather play that than GTA most of the time. Its really quite awesome.

I've only played the mafia game a couple of times, it seemed alright.

[vict0r]

Meh.. Your average sandbox game. I'd choose GTA over that any day.

[R4L]

That game is horrible man, HORRIBLE!

I reviewed that game for a little DIY magazine company we have here, and that game is bad.

Slow cars? Check. Crappy collision detection? Check. Frustrating controls? TRIPLE CHECK!!!!

I played it on Xbox, so it might be different. Sounds cool to have mods, but I'd play GTA over it anyday.

[BOYD1981]

i played through Mafia just to complete it, i got hardly any enjoyment out of it at all.
it did have a few neat features though, such as being able to pay a fine to get the cops to stop chasing you, and the cars requiring petrol although i never actually managed to run out of it.
but the story and voice acting were pretty terrible and it just felt like the actors were reading their lines and not actually acting.
i also spotted a possibly copyright violation which i emailed the publishers about but never got a reply, there's a sound clip that's taken from the movie Leon used as an ambient sound in some areas of the game near buildings (it's the part of the movie where Matilda's dad is shouting at her about smoking and tells her to get inside and do her homework outside of their apartment), it's slightly muffled but highly recognisable.
the final mission was infuriatingly difficult too, that coupled with the really crap ending earned it a "bleh" on my rating scale, it would have got a "hmm" perhaps if all the playing areas had been one, but then there wasn't much to do in free roam anyway.

[Mr Flibble]

Mafia?

The game?

How can I say no to that?

[vict0r]

Mafia?

The game?

How can I say no to that?

And after playing:

Forget everything I said about mafia, because this changes everything.

[InCreator]

I wouldn't say that this game is anywhere near "awful", though it has its flaws and some weird bugs.

I've played through three times and quite liked what I played. It's a bit too limited, linear and difficult. But it isn't a bad game and offers nice change to GTA. Also, it doesn't have this maniac humor GTA characters have. Like main character being a really nice guy and smiling and wasting 600 people in very gory way while being supposedly sympathetic and humorous.
This is dark fun, but a bit too sick for my taste. Luckily, Mafia didn't have this sick twist, the characters were serious from the start to the end.
I hope GTA 4 will lose this crap also, and what I read from reviews, there's slight chance for it to be so.
Mafia is quite average game with nice story and great atmosphere. Well, and horrible gameplay. Then again, GTA:SA PC controls weren't much easier. And difficulty neither (flying school, eeek!)

I seriously can't say similar for Godfather (for PC), which actually is the worst GTA clone ever.
Man I hated this game! I usually hate most of direct console ports, but this is best worst example of how NOT to port a game. Aren't games made on PC first anyway? Cars without transparent windshields... in 2006 game... omfg.

[LimpingFish]

I only played The Godfather on PSP but if it was an indication of the overall quality of the series, than that was enough for me. Truly awful.

As to slow cars in Mafia, well...more realistic, imo.

I haven't enjoyed a GTA game since Vice City, on PS2. San Andreas left me cold, as did the two PSP installments.

[blueskirt]

Mafia is a good game, the plot isn't juvenile like the GTAs, it has some well designed levels, the Freeride Extreme mode offer a lot of fun, challenging and original missions and it catches the feel of the 30s very well, even if there are a few things that are out of place, like turbo cars and the like.

But it's an extremely linear game where you simply chain one mission after the other until the game is done because the sandbox mode offer very little to do other than driving, kill gangsters/cops and taxi fares and as soon you are out of ammo/health you must drive 7 minutes, often more, to reach a weapon shop/hospital since that's the only way to refill those.

In my book the GTAs remain the best, with Vice City at the top of the list with its great atmosphere, great soundtrack, lot of freedom and lot of things to do. Plus it has this subtle little thing, also present in the MI games, that make it so you don't know anything about Vice City until you watch Scarface and Miami Vice up 'til half of the third seasons, because it is to those what Spaceballs is to Star Wars and scifi movies.

Also, it doesn't have this maniac humor GTA characters have. Like main character being a really nice guy and smiling and wasting 600 people in very gory way while being symphatetic and supposedly humorous.

I somehow prefer playing a nice and smiling guy while wasting 600 people in a very gory way, than play a very serious character who confess, in a serious tone, his crimes to a cop while these crimes include several hundreds, if not thousand, of roadkills and pedestrians killed in cold blood, and expect a lighter sentence. It would be like a Hitman game where 47 gets remorses for accidentaly killing an innocent, while the player could stabs every bodyguards, cops and civilians in the face during the previous mission. I somehow prefer protagonist with blank personality in sandbox games, this way the main character may be a maniac, but at least, it's a consistent maniac.

[ManicMatt]

Mafia. PS2 version. Crap.

The buildings looked like carboard cut outs, maybe they watched Dick Tracy for inspiration. The
AI was mind reading, the enemies would KNOW where you are all the time and shoot you precisely the moment you move from cover, like as if they had x-ray vision. The loading times were one of worse I've endured in a ps2 game. (Another game would be Commandos 2)

There you are, driving a car which is in a mission where you must not damage it, under a time limit, and you drive over a bridge. The road is clear of any cars, so you go fairly fast. The game goes to a loading screen to load up the next part of the city. Five minutes later the game loads up and your car is still travelling at the same speed, except a car has been spawned right in front of you which is impossible to avoid. CRASH! MISSION FAILED!!! Fantastic.

As for the personality of a character in GTA. In GTA3 they gave him no character, but when in a cutscene someone shouts at him, he doesn't ever say anything. But an inaction is an action too! It looks like he has no back spine. So I don't see how you can make someone have the character of the player unless the player has 100% output in the actions of the character. I presume Rockstar didnt think it worked, or people asked for a person with personality.

[ALPHATT]

That game is horrible man, HORRIBLE!

I reviewed that game for a little DIY magazine company we have here, and that game is bad.

Slow cars? Check. Crappy collision detection? Check. Frustrating controls? TRIPLE CHECK!!!!

I played it on Xbox, so it might be different. Sounds cool to have mods, but I'd play GTA over it anyday.

Slow cars coz the game placed in the 1930s You YOU YOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!

Oh an MM as far as i know there is only PC an XBOX version of th game.
And finally th  game came out in 2002 and just match th Gfx with Harry Potter 2s Gfx!!

[Steel Drummer]

I love mafia! The game where everyone gets dealt a card and that determines what type of character you are, and then you have to figure out who's the mafia? Oh, it's not the same game? Meh... I don't wanna play it.

[radiowaves]

Mafia is a biog breakthrough in game development industries, it was probably the best game in its time. While GTA is just a bunch of graphics whooped together into some city, Mafia actually has some well thought gameplay and a great storyline. GTA is just boring.

[LimpingFish]

Actually the game is readily available on PS2, XBox, and PC, although the PS2 and XBox versions (ported two years after Mafia's initial PC debut) are generally considered to be inferior.

[ManicMatt]

Thankyou, LimpingFish.

Wtcq: For the record, I manage a videogame store. I should think I know what I'm talking about. 

[Domino]

I have Mafia for the XBox. Bought it used, played it for a few hours, returned it back to my games shelf and haven't touched it since.

If i can remember correctly, there was a free roam mode or something like that. All i did was look around and explore. Even on the XBox, the graphics didn't look that great.

I tried a few missions and realized i wasn't having much fun. I would give it a 5 out of 10. Sorry. 

[Dave Gilbert]

I got Mafia for the PC in 2004 or so.  I hadn't played any of the GTAs, so I had nothing to compare it to.  I enjoyed it, actually.  I enjoyed the characters and the storyline was excellent.  Driving around the city was never fun, but the individual missions were great.

[ALPHATT]

and the cars requiring petrol although i never actually managed to run out of it.

You didn't ran out of it coz you only played missons and until now haven't ran out 'o it too
but after replaying the "You Lucky Bastard" misson I realized you can. I was driving back
to Salieri's Bar when I noticed a flashing red light at the bottom of the speed meter
then in front of the bar th car stopped an Tommy sad: "Damn I ran outta gas".
After this I tried Freeride and rean out of it several times but since Freeride is a crap
without mod I sownlaoded alive mod and it is the best it offers you millions of things to do and its only 5 megs!!(in Alive mod you can even see UFO and call repair trucks if you ran outta gas!!!!!!!!!!!)