Mafia

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Summary: What a great game.
Review: This game I must say is just great. I live in Sri Lanka and almost all the guys in my class have it and have finished it. The graphics are very real, Its like you are watching a real video. And I must say what a beautiful storyline!!!, it makes you love the game. When I got this game I played it almost all the time when I switch on my computer till the game ended. The story is, you are working for somebody big in the city, and you work hard for your boss killing guys in the city when the cops are on the hunt.

The story gets a little boring at the very end when you kill your own mate who was with you all the time for some money. I would say the game is like a real movie and every gamer must try it out. There are driving, shooting, robbing, racing, just going for a walk with your girlfriend, and save your own boss, and you name it its there. I recomend you try the game out to feel it your self, No other games can match this games graphics or story Line. So I give out my 5 stars!. ...

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Summary: Welcome To
Review: What a great game with its city lush envierment. Well every city has at liest one mob Don and Lost Hevan has two who would love to err well just like to ahh... Kill... Each other. The sound is amazing in this game,for the guns,the cars,and your suroundings in general,church bells,ehcos,you name it. There are around 60 slick 1930's cars,all of them a site to see. The guns look great too(and sound great)use the legandary Tommy gun and,my persenal favorite the Colt 1911,along with others. Enough said THIS GAME RULES SCREW GTA

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Summary: An absolute masterpiece
Review: This could perhaps be one of the best games ever created. The story is a mafioso masterpiece, it makes gta games like they aren't even about the mob in comparsion. The endking makes it worth playing through some of the incredibly hard sequencdes (which there are) and the game is hyper realistic (speed get a speeding ticket, run redlight ticket, you can't walk around the street with your gun out, you can only take a few hits and your dead.) I would highly reccomend this game to anyone who liked the gta games, anyone who likes any mafia oriented movies, or just someone looking for a new game.
Highly recommnded to anyone but a gamer that gives up easily.

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Summary: mafia
Review: I bougth this pc games 5/8/03 my pc was broke at that time now that was fixed I am unable to install the third cd it stock at the end please help me
thanks
magaly

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Summary: MAFIA
Review: This game is beatiful in its graphics. The people look reall, the cars are detailed to the bone, and the city is well....just beatiful. The stroy line is great. From the beginning the player believes this game is gonna rock. However, the game gets boring after a while. Too much driving... no really good shooting sequences, and a really bad music. However, the end is great. This game should be played once and never played again.

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Summary: A Virtual Time Machine
Review: I was initially put off by the title until convinced by a friend that Mafia must be experienced. To enjoy this game one does not even need to interact with the senarios or participate in violence. My wife hates guns and any kind of violence, yet she loves the Mafia game. She simply enjoys driving a taxi through this 1930s era American city or going for a walk (unarmed of course) in the quiet nighttime hours listening to the sounds of the city or the authenic depression-era music soundtrack. She's never threatened with violence unless she happens to have an accident with a car occupied by gangsters. For myself, I grew up in a large eastern U.S. city in the same 1930s and this game brings it all back...just like a time machine. My friends feel the same way and all of us would especially recommend this game to seniors.

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Summary: Pretty, but...
Review: Pretty much everything has already been said and I think it just depends on the person, but I got bored with this game...so bored that when I upgraded my system and the game stopped working with the new configuration, I didn't really care even though I was only a fourth of the way finished.

So, if I have anything to say about this, I'll speak to that problem.

Without getting into specifics, basically when I upgraded my system from mid-level to high-end, the game stopped working. It will load and begin, but then it just completely quit. I lowered the clock speed on my processor and selected the lowest graphics settings: that got the game to work for about 30 minutes before it just crashed again. That was also after I installed the patch. None of this makes any sense to me and I fix and build computers for a living.

At that point, I was only playing because I'd spent good money on this game and was hoping there was going to be something other than pretty graphics and a good story to make it worth while. It takes up too much space on the hard drive (IMHO) and the game play is seriously lacking. There's no incentive to explore-it's entirely too linear.

Perhaps if I had a chance to really get into the Free Ride part I'd like it, but since you have to play the regular part of the game before all of the Free Ride is unlocked...and since the bloody game won't hardly work anymore (even though all of my soft and hardware is 'supported') I guess I will never know.

I'm not at the point of asking for my money back, but close. I'm very disappointed and I really wanted to like this game. I tried to like it. I like driving games and I like mafia and old 'Chicago' type of stories. I did not like this game, though...even when it was working.

Download the demo before you buy. If you do buy, download the patch because you'll be glad you did when you get to the race. It's absurdly difficult without intermediate saves.

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Summary: the godfather of crime games
Review: this game was one of those rare cases... i watch many games, salivating at the screenshots and the in game movies, reading the articles in CGW, and then i am usually quite unhappy with what is released. this game far and away exceeded my every hope. i had a lot of premonitions that were quickly shot down. the graphics are nothing short of stunning, everything from the perfectly detailed cars to the textures of the walls in the hotel. the story puts a great deal of hollywood movies to shame. the gunfights are nothing short of incredible, the indoor areas are well thought out for exchange of gunfire. i love GTA and VC, but Mafia is on a higher plane. Pure class, style, and action.

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Summary: best game ever
Review: This is by far the best game ever its been a year sence i beat it and im still thinking about it its like whatching a gangster movie with a love scene and everything.And its so realistic in games such as gta3 running a red light or anyother traffic violation is totally ignored in this your given a ticket even for speeding wich makes it(buy mafia) just like a real 30's world and the cars are incredable they're all real old cars and they run like real old cars so if your used to playing gta3 where the cars turn on a dime then(buy mafia) it may take some getting used to but when you do it becomes as easy as(buying mafia) tying your shoe. i loved this game so much that ive turned into a mafia fanatic and have rented all the old gangster movies and i am reading "The Godfather" im sure you'll feel the same way so belive when i say this is(buy mafia) the greates game ever

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Summary: Promising, but falls short
Review: I was thoroughly disappointed in Mafia. I hate to say this, because I really wanted to like this game, and for the first hour or so I really did. But as the game progressed so did my frustration.

It's true that Mafia has it all - wonderful graphics, engaging story, interesting missions, action, even music. But there are a few pitfalls that turn it from a great game into a so-so game.

First, even though I did not really mind all the driving, most of it bears absolutely no purpose. The racing mission was absurd. If I wanted to race sports cars I would've bought a racing game. C'mon, people, NOBODY liked that mission! What was the point of it? But I stuck with it, forgiving them for the obviously annoying and pointless part, yet it never really got better. If anything, it got worse.

While I can see they've tried to make many aspects of the game ultra-realistic, it's really anything but. Here are some points about that:

Point 1: I understand that the vigilant cops and traffic violations were put into the game to make it seem more realistic. But how come that running people over or bumping into other cars leaves the cops indifferent?

Point 2: The police cars are the fastest cars in the game. No matter what car you're driving, even a race car, they WILL catch up to you and arrest you. Yet when later in the game you get to drive a police car, the other police cars are STILL faster than you. Makes any sense? To me neither.

Point 3. The game is happening in the 1930s. How in the world would a cop measure your speed? How could a cop walking on the sidewalk know what the speed of your car is? Yet they all stop you, cops in cars AND cops on the sidewalk.

Point 4. The cops only seem to be after YOU. Whenever you have to chase after someone in your car, of course you have to speed if you want to catch up with them. Yet if you do the cops will run you off the road and arrest you for speeding. Never the other guy. Same goes for the "hide weapon" feature. If the cops spot you carrying a gun they will arrest you, yet there is one mission where you start with the gun in your hand. The sequence loads, you don't even have a chance to hide your weapon, and immediately the cops spot you. Forget trying to get away. The only way to finish either mission is to pray there are no cops around when the mission starts.

Point 5: If you reload while your gun still has bullets in it, you lose those bullets. Only a fool would discard their half-used magazine in real life. In fact, in the military they encourage you to reload as often as possible, because this way there's less chance to run into an empty magazine.

Another thing that might not be a problem for other games but is a huge one for Mafia is that it's a very linear game. It gives you very little room for creativity. In one of the first missions you have to collect money from a gas station and then carchase and kill the guy that stole the money. Before going into the gas station I shot the tires on the car, just in case. But when the very nest sequence loaded the car was driving just fine. The game consistently points you in the right direction, and there are no rewards for exploring on your own or deviating from the main plotline (unlike in games like Morrowind, in which you can progress any which way you want).

And of course, the most frustrating aspect of the game is your inability to save games. Honestly, I can't comprehend why game developers do that. Is it so difficult to put in a savegame feature? Mafia is not simply a game where you cannot save, it's an _extremely difficult_ game where you can't save. Who wants to spend two hours going through the same mission over and over again? Did I mention that the conversations written into the missions repeat as well, and that you cannot skip them? After spending 2,5 hours on one of such missions only to get killed in the last two minutes of it and have to start all over again, I finally gave up. Sure I want a game that's challenge (I play all my games on "hard" or "realistic" difficulty setting), but I don't want a game that's a total frustration roller-coaster.

Mafia could have been a real gem. It could have easily been an epic classic of the gaming world if it wasn't for the aforementioned downsides.