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Great Game, but eats even high end systems

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 04, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I've just completed the game, having been addidcted to it for 3 weeks. It has a great twist at the end, well worth seeing, and i had to remember iwas playing a game and not watching a great gangster movie. No game is perfect and this also has its negative points, which are the no save game option whenever you like, this means you might spend half an hour killing mobsters and sneak into a room only to get blown away with a single shot from a guy carrying a pump action shotgun, yes trust me you get cheesed off trying to get to the same point again. The other thing was that I thought I had a very powerful PC until i played this game, I run a microstar Nforce motherboard with an athlon 1800xp cpu, and a Gforce 4 TI400 graphics card (thats 128mb) and also 512 mb ddr ram, and 60gb 7800 rpm Hard drive, yet all this and i still found the frame rate quite jerky, especially whilst driving a vehicle. I did have all the options on high however, but GTA3 runs very smoothly with the options on very high.

All in all the positives far outweigh the negatives, and i would reccomend this game to anyone.

Mafia is a dream game for all mob fans

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

Mafia is an awesome game. The graphics- the action- the story.
If you liked the godafther or any other mob movie, ull love this game. mafia is a must have for ne true gamer.

AWESOME!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 02, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game was absolutely superb!
Mafia is like GTA3 in alot of ways but it also brings a welcomed uniqueness to the table as well. The cars and weapons were all very good even the cut scenes were cool(unlike in GTA3 where the character faces were just scary). The only problem though is the AI but aside from that the game kicks. The storyline of the game was extremely good as well, a little sad at the end though but never the less impresive.
Now if they would only take all the positive aspects from Mafia and GTA3 and create on kick [butt] game.

Dizzying Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 01, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I had fun playing this game, as it is addictive. it mainly includes driving different cars, shooting, and some searching for object, but when moving upand down the staris or around corridors, when your back is against the wall, the camer azooms front then zooms out, this is sort of mind aerobics, and makes you feel dizzy.Aside from that it is a very involving and a first-class game.

The 1930's Grand Theft Auto...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 06, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is awesome.I would recomend this game 1,000 times!!!I got this game 5 months ago and everyday I get home from school I play this game for hours.I usally play freeride and occasionally some missions after I beat the game a few months ago.Did you get this game and got tired of the wimpy 22hp Bolts?Well don't give up because it defenatly gets better.The graphics on this game are awsome and so is the sound.I thought this game wasn't too hard to beat but it did take awile from the 20+ missions.If you don't have this game yet you should buy it NOW!!!!!

A Fatal Murderer In Lost Heaven.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 07, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Tom Angelo this is your name in the game a taxi driver looking for a chance to be a rich man, Don Salieri will give you that chance if you do what he says.He will make you a fatal murderer without heart and he also will expolit your good driving in doing missions, So pick up the tommy gun,colt1911,pump action shotgun and magnum and spread the blood everywhere in Lost Heaven the city of Mafia and drive over 60 different vehicles with the most realistic car physics ever made in a game.Now you have respect after long struggle to make money and power.You will married Sara the girl who will change your life you have a wife and a daughter now what will happen ?you will care about them and.... Play the game to know the rest of the fantastic story .I am really waiting for MAFIA 2.

Beautiful....

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 24, 2004
Author: Amazon User

When I bought this game I wasn't quite sure that I was going to enjoy it. Reason being, that I heard it completely copied GTA3 and Vice City, which are both great games. I began to play this game and I was amazed. Let's begin with the graphics. Jesus Christ! They're amazing. People's expressions and movments are totaly fluid and life-like. The voice acting is great, not mellowdramatic or overdone in any way. The game it self. Perfect! You play as Tommey Angelou a cab driver who accsidently gets wound up in the Mafia of Chicago(im guessing the location). The plot is simply amazing. The end is incredible. It's literaly like playing a movie. All in all, this game is a masterpiece, my favorite game of all time, and one of the best games made so far. This game is rated M due to sexsual references, violence, blood, and language.

Mafia is the bomb!!!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 05, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is for everyone. It has awesome graphics, and a great driving system. No cheesy hit a curb and blow up, nor ram 80 miles an hour into a wall and drive away as if it never happened. The only thing that bites is no in-game save feature and no cheatcodes for it. It has a wonderful style of play, and is great. I would reccomend this to many games. Enjoy :-)
The only thing is, Free Ride. I would like to see a better Free Ride mode if there is a Mafia2. Like, GTA3 and Vice City's. It was during the mission. On this, the Free Ride is pointless. Not interactive, can't do missions, pointless. Crazy Red's, you found weapons on the ground with money sign. Not as good.

stupid gta3

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

I found the game mafia a very cool game better than gta3.
you can do more things than in gta3.

Excellent, but not without its frustrating drawbacks.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 21, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I pretty much agree with everything written in the review by Matthew T Duren and most of the other positive reviews of the game here, so I won't bother repeating everything they've said. It's incredibly immersive; everything from the game's aesthetics to the realistic vintage cars to the fully realized city to the epic story and the characters are all superb and work together to make this one of the best games I've played this year.

One additional thing I have to say is that the main character (whom you play as, of course) is very well-done. He's as close as you can get to "a gangster with a conscience", yet he's still, ultimately, an awe-inspiring badguy. It's easy to relate to the main character because he starts out as an "ordinary joe" who slowly becomes unwillingly involved in the world of organized crime; throughout the story, he has his own motivations for going into each mission, all of which are understandable. Because you care about the main character, you actually have a stake in completing each mission successfully and you really want to know how things turn out, which makes the game all the more fun.

However, Mafia does have some major drawbacks. The game uses an auto-save feature, which works extremely well when it's implemented effectively, such as in games like Bungie's "Halo". But the auto-save points really need to be laid out just the right distance from each other. If the game is saved so frequently that the player can always just hop back to where they were 5 seconds ago whenever they get killed, then the game obviously becomes easy; but moreover, it kills a lot of dramatic tension because the player isn't really "on the edge of their seat", as they know they can easily undo any mistakes they make. There's a certain sense of satisfaction with a well-implemented auto-save system, when the player goes through a gauntlet of enemies and emerges victorious, that just isn't there when the player kills an enemy, saves the game, kills another enemy, saves the game again, gets killed by the next enemy, restores the game, then kills the enemy, and emerges victorious.

But on the other hand, if the auto-save points are placed too far apart for a player, the player can get very frustrated when they try to get through that gauntlet of enemies, are unsuccessful many times in a row, and get incredibly fed up with the repetitiveness to the point that the game is just no fun. This happened a fair number of times with me in Mafia, unfortunately, although not too often. In particular, though, there's a 5-lap race that happens a few missions into this game, which I won mostly by luck on the 4th or 5th try; but if I hadn't won it when I did, I might have eventually put the game down because repeating it over and over would get terribly boring and frustrating. In addition, there were a few instances where the goals of a mission were a bit too vague and I had to wander around the level aimlessly after killing all the enemies or reaching my destination, trying to figure out what to do; sometimes I'd get killed somehow while doing this (e.g., I'd turn a corner and a straggling enemy would deck me with a point-blank shotgun blast, or a time limit would run out), in which case I'd have to go all the way back to the last auto-save, kill all the enemies again, and then wander around aimlessly once more, playing the game of "hmm, I wonder what the game designers wanted me to do here...". Granted, these kinds of things inevitably happen with me on nearly all the games I play, but Mafia is one of those games where, in retrospect, I wonder if I was ultimately frustrated more than I was having fun. If you have to ask yourself this with a lot of games you play, you might want to think twice before picking this one up. Still, when the game is fun, it's extremely fun, and incredibly immersive, which makes my decision of "would I play it all over again?" all the more difficult.

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