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Summary: This game is game of the year!
Review: Mafia has great grafics and a great story line. I say game of the year best 3rd person ever. Mafia is better then Gta3. mafias top reading is 9.3 and is going up fast. Buy this game it is the best Talonsoft game ever. Buy this game if you like action. 20 missions to play never get bored it rocks.
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Summary: One of the best games I've ever played!!!!
Review: This game is breathtaking! I don't think that there is anything that could make it better. Yes you do drive a lot in this game, but you have to drive to go anywhere you want to go. You don't just teleport to the bar when you need to destroy the cars (it's realistic!)!... Recommend to anyone who is interested in the mafia. One word of warning: In some levels, you have to kill dogs.:(
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Summary: If you like Counter-Strike or GFAII read this
Review: The graphics are great. The cut scenes are great. The story is great. So what's wrong with it, well you spend 75% or more of your time driving through the city from place to place. This would be fine, but driving isn't at all hard or challanging. Other cars will stop if you cut them off, you rarely get in accidents and the police are easy to get away from. The people in their cars don't even say anything cool if you cut them off or run into them. The fps part of the game is okay. It's definately not counter-strike materials, but overall from a guy who plays counter-strike every day, it's good. There is one bad part which is a race you have to do about 25% into the game. It is so hard that I've heard MANY people are downloading the save game after the race from the Internet. I've played a zillion games and it took me forever to finish the race. So if you buy this game get ready for some major frustaration. If you don't like driving games DONT BUY THIS GAME.
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Summary: Great game...
Review: If you are into organized crime or the MOB, this is the game for you. It has got action, great story, amazing graphics and a all around "Tuff guy" kind of game. The best way I can describe this game is Grand Theft Auto III meets Max Payne, with of course a Mafia backdrop. A must have for your collection.
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Summary: GTA3 it ain't
Review: There are alot of valid comparisons between this product and the groundbreaking, genre-redefining GTA3. Sadly, Mafia does not live up to the new precedent set by Rockstar's masterpiece. While you can roam Lost Heaven for hours, the game gives you no reason to do so. You can't jack any vehicle anytime, you can't rob from pedestrians, there are no mini-games or sub-missions, the vehicles are unfortunately realistic (slow, hard to control). In short, Mafia doesn't allow you to stray from the main storyline to cause as little or as much mayhem as your heart desires. This freedom to roam (and plunder) was what made GTA3 the game to beat.
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Summary: Should be called "MAFIA RACING"
Review: While this game boasts stunning graphics and an immense gaming "world," the emphasis is more on driving the many period cars of the 1930s, rather than tommy guns, booze, and all the great old gangster cliches that we've grown up with. Still a fun game, to the say the least, but doesn't quite deliver what the game seems to promise: an all-out, 3rd person mobster sim, a sort of 3rd person "Soldier of Fortune," which would have been a much more entertaining game. As it is, there are way too many "cinematic" cutaways, too many racing sequences (at one point you actually have to win a FIVE LAP race around a track. PLEASE! Since when did Don Corleone or Scarface Tony Montana have to do something so freakin' BORING?!?!?) Note to the developers: kudos on your artistry, but if you do a sequel, less racing (how about NO racing?), more gunplay and better storylines. Look to GTA 3 as an example of the perfect 3rd person immersive game experience. If you want to make a racing sim, please market it as such.
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Summary: Perfect Game...Almost.
Review: If you enjoyed Grand Theft Auto 3 then you'll most likely drool over this game. Try and picture GTA3 but back in the 1930's and you're half way there. Now stealing cars isn't nearly as important in this game as it was in GTA3 but you can still do it. Mafia does lack some of the "freedom" elements we all enjoyed in GTA3, but you can take the Free Ride option and just cruise around the city. The graphics in Mafia are simply amazing, character models and surroundings alike are breathtaking. As far as weapons you get to use all of your favorite guns from the old movies, yes yes the tommy gun is finally here. You'll spend the same amount of time, if not more, of gameplay driving around the city on missions in vintage cars that look beautiful. Driving in the game is similar again to GTA3, you have to deal with traffic, pedestrians, etc. You also have to watch out for the police, they'll stop you for speeding and other driving offenses like running red lights! All and all this has been a very enjoyable game and I highly recommend it to any one who likes the criminal genre.
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Summary: Feast for the eyes!
Review: I have never played Grand Theft Auto or Max Payne. The subject of mobsters just interested me so I bought Mafia. OH MY GOD!!! This is the most graphically intensive game I have ever seen! The graphics are so beautiful. One can immediately tell that the authors spent a lot of time and care developing this piece of art. The amount of graphical detail - from the character's faces, to their movements, to cars and damage that can be inflicted on them... I just couldn't get enough of it! I would recommend a really good graphics card, lots of memory, and a good monitor to see everything the artists put in the game. The plot line is also entertaining. I found myself drawn into the main character as the game progressed. It took me about two hours to get used to the third person perspective since I've never played a comparable game. The default controls were confusing to me but I simply changed the key assignments to something I was used to and everything was fine. If you're like me and have never played a third person game. Be prepared... You'll probably get hooked, too!
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Summary: Simply the best.
Review: I got this game the day it came out. I gotta tell you, it is genius. The graphics amazing, game play outstanding, it is the best. I'd have to say, this game is better than GTA3 for PS2. The realistic game play clobbers the rest. I reccomend this to anyone, anyone with a fast computer. I say this because the graphics can become choppy if you don't have a fast enough computer. When i brought this home i played it, and next thing i knew 4 and a half hours had gone by. Get this game!
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Summary: Do not buy this game!!!
Review: Illusion Softworks should be ashamed of themselves for producing one of the most bug-ridden pieces of software that I have ever had the displeasure to experience. I have two systems, both exceeding Mafia's recommended requirements (also running different operating systems and hardware!), and this game locks up both of my systems in the same way. A hard reboot is required to recover. A quick check of Illusion Softworks own Mafia related forum [URL] shows that this is the norm and that Illusion is making no effort to let users know that a patch is even being thought about, let alone worked on! Software like this is the reason piracy is a good thing. I wish I would have downloaded a bootleg version prior to blowing $50 bucks on a lovely set of 3 matched drink coasters!!
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