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Been playing Mafia most of the weekend (when not out in Lundun being sociable).
And it's fantastic.
Imagine GTA3 in prohibition-era New York. And then some.
Car-jacking? Check.
Shooting bystanders? Check
Police chases? Check
Except the police-after-you is a lot more fun in this one. Commit a crime in a car and they come after you. If you can ditch the car without being seen, then they dont know what you look like and go screeching past you.
It's GTA3 with everything GTA3:Vice City is boasting about.
You can shoot tyres out to stop the cars. Oh, and shoot the gas tank if you want them to come to a coasting halt.
Or shoot at the radiator and explode the cars.
Loads of different little things make this game cool. Indoor missions (the hotel one is fantastic. Shoot a wh0re, a manager and loads of gangsters), racing missions in 1930 sports cars around a track, being ambushed on a rainy farm at night. Shooting out the back of a van with a Tommy Gun at the approaching cars.
Finding it hard? Either shoot out the tyres and watch the car go careening away or blast the driver. See the glass shatter, he slumps over the wheel and the car just blasts off the side of the road.
And with my Geoforce 4 64mb video card, there's zero slowdown with max detailing on.
Superb game, it really is. Voice acting is top-notch, environment's are stunning and it even has Django Reinhardt and Louis Prima on the soundtrack.
Free-ride to just cruise about and "Freeride Extreme" once you've completed the single-player game where you can unlock bizarre cars.
If you have a PC with a decent graphics card and liked GTA3, The Untouchables, Once Upon a Time in America etc then you really should get this game.
Once again,an Eastern European Developer does good (Max Payne, IL2-Sturmovik, Operation Flashpoint etc) by concentrating on seriously addictive gaming as opposed to massive advertising budgets on a shoddy game.
Support smaller companies that actually bother to make good games buy getting Mafia.
(time for the cliche summary sentence)
Or da family is gonna be disappointed in ya Tommy.
And it's fantastic.
Imagine GTA3 in prohibition-era New York. And then some.
Car-jacking? Check.
Shooting bystanders? Check
Police chases? Check
Except the police-after-you is a lot more fun in this one. Commit a crime in a car and they come after you. If you can ditch the car without being seen, then they dont know what you look like and go screeching past you.
It's GTA3 with everything GTA3:Vice City is boasting about.
You can shoot tyres out to stop the cars. Oh, and shoot the gas tank if you want them to come to a coasting halt.
Or shoot at the radiator and explode the cars.
Loads of different little things make this game cool. Indoor missions (the hotel one is fantastic. Shoot a wh0re, a manager and loads of gangsters), racing missions in 1930 sports cars around a track, being ambushed on a rainy farm at night. Shooting out the back of a van with a Tommy Gun at the approaching cars.
Finding it hard? Either shoot out the tyres and watch the car go careening away or blast the driver. See the glass shatter, he slumps over the wheel and the car just blasts off the side of the road.
And with my Geoforce 4 64mb video card, there's zero slowdown with max detailing on.
Superb game, it really is. Voice acting is top-notch, environment's are stunning and it even has Django Reinhardt and Louis Prima on the soundtrack.
Free-ride to just cruise about and "Freeride Extreme" once you've completed the single-player game where you can unlock bizarre cars.
If you have a PC with a decent graphics card and liked GTA3, The Untouchables, Once Upon a Time in America etc then you really should get this game.
Once again,an Eastern European Developer does good (Max Payne, IL2-Sturmovik, Operation Flashpoint etc) by concentrating on seriously addictive gaming as opposed to massive advertising budgets on a shoddy game.
Support smaller companies that actually bother to make good games buy getting Mafia.
(time for the cliche summary sentence)
Or da family is gonna be disappointed in ya Tommy.
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mafia has been in the making for years...
and is a great game..
i have to say i was very disappointed by the first few missions where you drive p*ss slow cars and get stopped by police after getting over 40mph or speeding through a red light (i know there is a speed limiter..but 40 mph is painfully slow)
but there are some truly cool missions :D
and is a great game..
i have to say i was very disappointed by the first few missions where you drive p*ss slow cars and get stopped by police after getting over 40mph or speeding through a red light (i know there is a speed limiter..but 40 mph is painfully slow)
but there are some truly cool missions :D
Mafia? Never heard of it.
Is it some new gangster movie or something?
Is it some new gangster movie or something?
where you been goatboy haven't seen a post by you in ages?
yeh i saw a review of mafia somewhere a while back. my stupid PC won't run it though :(
So, you would recommend it then Goatboy? :D
Just decided, after reading this and although I haven't heard much on the game I went and ordered it from SR. Looks and sounds impressive and I'm looking forward to the postie delivering this one soon.
PS2 is on the way, and probably an X-Box version
Obviously too good to run on my P120 with 16mb of ram and no graphics card whatsoever!
**sigh**
Any chance of a console release?
**sigh**
Any chance of a console release?
Quinty wrote:
> Lethal Weapon wrote:
> I has also read it in the mag and i am getting it when it hits the
> shops.
>
> It's already out. I you bothered to read the post, Goatie said he had
> been *Playing* it all weekend.
WRONG POST SORRY.
> Lethal Weapon wrote:
> I has also read it in the mag and i am getting it when it hits the
> shops.
>
> It's already out. I you bothered to read the post, Goatie said he had
> been *Playing* it all weekend.
WRONG POST SORRY.
I can vouch for this game - 'tis excellent
It's one of the few games I seem to be naturally good at. Wooha!
It's one of the few games I seem to be naturally good at. Wooha!
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