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Mafia

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: September 05, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is one of the coolest games ever made. It's amazing the graphics are awesome. It's like real life. You get tickets and other kinds of things. If you don't have this game you need to get it as soon as possible!

YEAH!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: August 29, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Mafia is Finally out its going to be a hit! as good or better then Grand Theft Auto 3!

back to basic's

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 18
Date: January 30, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I am so sick and tired of running around shooting and dying in multi - play games. If i use strategy in a multigame i wanna kill on the first bullet or second. I am excited about this game , Due to the fact that I get to be in charge of the enviroment. I wanna be able to smash a car up or walk the streets. I will be dissapointed if it takes 40,000 bullets to kill an op-ponent

The Best Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 20
Date: January 29, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is sooo great,Graphics great,gameplay great.ThisGame is sssooo Good

NO MULTIPLAY!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: September 06, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game because Amazon says there would be multiplay and guess what? There is none. Other than that the game is great. Really good graphics and sound. A little tedious in that Mafia uses the limited save game feature - but it's not too bad.

1930s Knock-Off of GTA3

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: October 04, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The creators of Mafia seem to think they can take GTA3, dress the main character up in a pin-stripe suit, and call it something new.

Game developers spend lots of money on graphics and sound, and devote very little attention to plot, dialogue, and acting. Why do we see so many games, like this one, with state-of-the-art visuals trying to breathe life into a bland script that could well have been written by some high-school kid in the after-school creative writing club? The sensory aspects of action games keep improving over time, but the creative aspect has totally been left behind.

....An Offer You Can't Refuse? Well maybe, maybe not.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: March 23, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The 1930's. The era of prohibition, bootlegged liquor, and the mob. Mafia from Illusion Softworks brings us back to that by gone era with some good graphics and decent albeit uneven gameplay.

Mafia, tells the story of Tommy Angelo. A mobster who really just wants to do "the right thing". As a story, Mafia works. The cutscenes are surprisingly photorealistic and are well acted and presented. Unfortunatley it's the gameplay between the story segments that partially drags the game down.

Mafia can almost be described as a 1930's Grand Theft Auto. Only it doesn't quite pull it off as well. Set in the fictional Chicago/New York hybrid city of "Lost Heaven", the game renders the period extremely well. The streets have that very old time look to them. Imagine New York before the "urban renewel" of the late 40's and early 50's. The city is also enormous in size. The game however didn't run very smoothely in places on my 800mhz, 256 SDRAM, 64 mb Nvidia graphics card machine even though it's recomended for machines as slow as 500 mhz. Even with the graphical problems. This is a very nice looking game. The sound is also pretty good. Pedestrians scream, bullet casings clang on the ground. Even the car radio plays period music. There are quite a bit of sounds that give it a more authentic period feel. The game is installed over three discs and requires 1.8 gigs of hard drive space to install.

The gameplay is however is a mixed bag. The driving portions of the game are tedious, due to the lack of an in game map. Making it easy to get lost. A compass in the left hand corner helps with navigations, so does the radar to some degree (the target appears as a red X on the radar only when you're within about half a mile from it). You can also travel the city in street cars and on elevated trains. And there's always the option of traveling on foot. There are also a varitey of period weapons to choose from Tommy Guns to a baseball bat reminiscent of the film the Untouchables. The controls are fairly easy to negotiate even for a PC game. The game is also pretty long and also has a "Free Ride" option so you can go on a rampage if you so desire.

All in all this is a pretty good game for the money. I'm not sure if I would pay the full Playstation 2 price for it. But at the current price PC of $9.99 this is a good value.

too good to be true

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: December 28, 2002
Author: Amazon User

it is one of the most thrilling and exiting game I have played.
If you are fond of games like hitman,nolfo or GTA-3 you would surely love this one.
THIS GAME WILL SURELY TO BLOW YOU OFF YOUR SEAT!!!!

TEDIOUS

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: December 26, 2002
Author: Amazon User

When a video game stops being entertaining, and becomes tedious its no longer any good. This is the case with Mafia. Sure it has the graphics of Max Payne, with the feel of GTA3 and a great story line, however its just about as fun as a tax audit. Mafia fails to deliver in every category exept the feeling of absolute displeasure at having to constantly repeat the same mundain task over and over and over and over again. Boring. A perfect example of this is the racing sequence, at the track early in the game. I assure you, this part of the game will leave you pulling your hair out in disgust. This game could have been great, sadly it comes up way short.

This game is too short

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 15
Date: April 16, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Whats up man... I finished this game in less than 2 weeks!!. You know that this game is different than any other games and is very interresting. But it is too short and easy.

This game does not have a good story. At the end of this game everybody in the team dies. I would have liked it if Tommy lives with his friends Sam + Paulie working for Saliery. You feel really bad when you shoot Sam who was your best friend. You save him in earlier missions and now you shoot him down.

I would have loved this game if it was a little longer and had more missions to play with. 20 missions on a interesting game like this is always not enough. I am waiting for Mafia 2.

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