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...MAFIA
I got it today and so far the story has been pretty interesting, but unfortunately, that seems to be the only good thing about it.
Visually it's certainly below average, perhaps even worse than True Crime. The sound effects are okay but not spectacular, the guns sound pretty realistic and the voice acting is good, but the ambient noise and the cars sound quite poor.
Considering the size of the city, they could have made the cars go a little faster than 60 mph, I know these cars are based on models from the 30's, but lets face it, this is a game and people don't want that, as the amount of time you spend getting to certain areas just induces boredom.
Loading times are also extremely long, and everytime you die, you have to sit through yet another loading screen which can peev you off, and this isn't helped by a less than accurate control system. You can adjust the sensitivity of the analogue buttons but even at it's lowest setting, it still feels pretty inaccurate and a little wild.
Unfortunetly the rest of the buttons don't appear to be very rsponsive at all at times. Sometimes when you press the fire button it'll take a good 3 quarters of a second for any kind of reaction, and it's even worse when trying to reload when you're being chased by a group of gangsters.
I don't want to sit here and do a review, but basically it feels that Mafia's only real strong point is it's storyline.
I'm considering taking this game back tommorow and trading it for something else, and then maybe I'll wait for the X-Box version to be released, as this should smooth out the game a little and may improve the gameplay slightly.
So has anyone else got this game and played it for quite a while, and does it get any better when you get bigger guns, better cars etc?
I got it today and so far the story has been pretty interesting, but unfortunately, that seems to be the only good thing about it.
Visually it's certainly below average, perhaps even worse than True Crime. The sound effects are okay but not spectacular, the guns sound pretty realistic and the voice acting is good, but the ambient noise and the cars sound quite poor.
Considering the size of the city, they could have made the cars go a little faster than 60 mph, I know these cars are based on models from the 30's, but lets face it, this is a game and people don't want that, as the amount of time you spend getting to certain areas just induces boredom.
Loading times are also extremely long, and everytime you die, you have to sit through yet another loading screen which can peev you off, and this isn't helped by a less than accurate control system. You can adjust the sensitivity of the analogue buttons but even at it's lowest setting, it still feels pretty inaccurate and a little wild.
Unfortunetly the rest of the buttons don't appear to be very rsponsive at all at times. Sometimes when you press the fire button it'll take a good 3 quarters of a second for any kind of reaction, and it's even worse when trying to reload when you're being chased by a group of gangsters.
I don't want to sit here and do a review, but basically it feels that Mafia's only real strong point is it's storyline.
I'm considering taking this game back tommorow and trading it for something else, and then maybe I'll wait for the X-Box version to be released, as this should smooth out the game a little and may improve the gameplay slightly.
So has anyone else got this game and played it for quite a while, and does it get any better when you get bigger guns, better cars etc?
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...MAFIA
I got it today and so far the story has been pretty interesting, but unfortunately, that seems to be the only good thing about it.
Visually it's certainly below average, perhaps even worse than True Crime. The sound effects are okay but not spectacular, the guns sound pretty realistic and the voice acting is good, but the ambient noise and the cars sound quite poor.
Considering the size of the city, they could have made the cars go a little faster than 60 mph, I know these cars are based on models from the 30's, but lets face it, this is a game and people don't want that, as the amount of time you spend getting to certain areas just induces boredom.
Loading times are also extremely long, and everytime you die, you have to sit through yet another loading screen which can peev you off, and this isn't helped by a less than accurate control system. You can adjust the sensitivity of the analogue buttons but even at it's lowest setting, it still feels pretty inaccurate and a little wild.
Unfortunetly the rest of the buttons don't appear to be very rsponsive at all at times. Sometimes when you press the fire button it'll take a good 3 quarters of a second for any kind of reaction, and it's even worse when trying to reload when you're being chased by a group of gangsters.
I don't want to sit here and do a review, but basically it feels that Mafia's only real strong point is it's storyline.
I'm considering taking this game back tommorow and trading it for something else, and then maybe I'll wait for the X-Box version to be released, as this should smooth out the game a little and may improve the gameplay slightly.
So has anyone else got this game and played it for quite a while, and does it get any better when you get bigger guns, better cars etc?
I got it today and so far the story has been pretty interesting, but unfortunately, that seems to be the only good thing about it.
Visually it's certainly below average, perhaps even worse than True Crime. The sound effects are okay but not spectacular, the guns sound pretty realistic and the voice acting is good, but the ambient noise and the cars sound quite poor.
Considering the size of the city, they could have made the cars go a little faster than 60 mph, I know these cars are based on models from the 30's, but lets face it, this is a game and people don't want that, as the amount of time you spend getting to certain areas just induces boredom.
Loading times are also extremely long, and everytime you die, you have to sit through yet another loading screen which can peev you off, and this isn't helped by a less than accurate control system. You can adjust the sensitivity of the analogue buttons but even at it's lowest setting, it still feels pretty inaccurate and a little wild.
Unfortunetly the rest of the buttons don't appear to be very rsponsive at all at times. Sometimes when you press the fire button it'll take a good 3 quarters of a second for any kind of reaction, and it's even worse when trying to reload when you're being chased by a group of gangsters.
I don't want to sit here and do a review, but basically it feels that Mafia's only real strong point is it's storyline.
I'm considering taking this game back tommorow and trading it for something else, and then maybe I'll wait for the X-Box version to be released, as this should smooth out the game a little and may improve the gameplay slightly.
So has anyone else got this game and played it for quite a while, and does it get any better when you get bigger guns, better cars etc?
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