Mafia

It was really cool to see the original Mafia game and where the franchise started, seeing the little or big differences in the story was awesome to see as well...and for a game that came out in 2002 as well i can understand why people love it, and i like it as well...BUT...unfortunately i found the game incredibly difficult and it was more frustrating and annoying, rather than fun.

getting chased by the police when your racing away from Morello's men
Every enemy having insane aim and precision
getting chased by the police for going 41MPH rather than 40

these things unfortunately bugged me a lot and i could not enjoy the game as much as i wanted to,

sorry to let you hardcore Mafia fans down with this review.

In all honesty I have not finished this game, that is because I am out of patience and would rather spend forty dollars on a version that fundamentally works, side note, this game should not be 15 dollars, if you are truly interested in playing wait until a sale. The driving is fine given the 1930s setting, the plot is set up well but is ultimately spoiled in one of the first cut scenes. The combat is enjoyable until you get about 10-12 missions into the game where it becomes simply rigged and unfair, that isn't an exaggeration, a certain mission you have a handgun with only about twenty bullets, and baseball bat, and against nearly a dozen enemies who all have shotguns, you can pick up these shotguns, but you do not have the accuracy that the enemies did, they can hit you from 100 feet away, you can't hit them from 10. They can kill you in one hit, who knows how many it takes you to kill them. I have played hard games before, I'll site Wolfenstein as some of my favorites, and while the combat was hard it never felt like it was specifically made to make the player fail, and make it rigged on purpose. This game does. As it does in many other ways like the broken police system which, while immersive, should not be in the game, immersion does not equal a good feature, and if it was truly something they really really wanted in the game, you should have been able to turn off the speeding and red light traffic laws, after the first few missions. I want to play all of these games but I've always wanted the full story of any game I play, such as right now I'm also playing through all of Yakuza, I won't skip any for the plot. So I'll buy the Definitive Edition of this game soon hopefully, to enjoy the story.

Great game, shows the reality of the gangster life - no happy endings.

fun, but outdated.

i like this game very mutch

Awesome game

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Bad graphics, bad gameplay, bad dialouge, bad everything

nice

I played this game back in the old days on the Original Xbox, i still have the Xbox and the CD. If you ask me why i bought this game on Steam too, that's because i wanted to try mods, and the Multiplayer that some fans made. I love this game.

GRGAEGRAVAV

Best Story i think Mafia 2 is better for gameplay but Mafia Classic is 100% Story like best game I love it so so much please buy it if you can ❤️❤️❤️

I am going to be honest about this game and say that's it's a really awesome game. I love it, but it isn't for everyone. Like many other games from 2000-2010 Mafia The City of Lost Heaven is a game that aged poorly. Peolple who play games nowadays expect a game that is comfortable for today's standarts of videogames, and this game isn't. Mafia has a great, cinematic story with a unique, humble and warm athmosphere, that sadly not alot of people are going to axperience. Are protagonist is good example of an everyman. Doing just what he was told, until personal morals get in the way. We can see Tommy further and further putting the values of the mafia to doubt. Until at one point he goes completely against it. And this is what the story focuses on the most. Values that should stay consistent and at the same time, how your actions define your own succes and what conseuqences come with your actions. No one who does harm to others goes away unpunished. That's what the story tells us and why it's loved by so many. The game also has wonderfull OST. The music writen for the game actually feels like you are watching a movie. It has alot of emotion and ties perfectly to its story. And there is the "radio" music, wich has also alot of great songs. Unfortunately, all of the radio music was cut out the game later on, due to the copyrights expiring. So I suggest putting some mods into the game, to get the missing content back. It doesn't make much of change anyway, as there are no achiements in the game. On the other hand to the great athmosphere, we have the controls and the general rules of the game, that you will need some time to atune to. The driving is not particulary bad, it's just diffrent. You lose control of the car very fast, if its going at a great speed. You die if the car turns on its head. The map can be confusing at first, as it doen't contain much information. The police is difficult to lose. Civillians tend to jump under your car and for some missions you are given limited time. And most importantly you have to keep the trafic rules in mind, like not driving when its red or not going over the speed limit. All those things might sound very stressful. And they are at first, but at somepoint you find ways to get around most of those problems. You learn to drive your car more carefully, and I personaly suggest using arow-keys instead of WASD and slowing down, when going into a turn. You learn certain routes and shortcuts, wich save you time. And you learn to obey the trafic (when the police is around). When you have learned the rules of game, the carplay gets much more fun. And I must admit, that you don't see alot TPS games with a focus to realism on the road. And I also must say, that there are alot of cool cars in Mafia. You can see they enjoyed doing all those cars by the amount of details on them. Sure, the graphics are not that great, but the functions each car has are impressing. So that's definitely something that makes Mafia stand out. And yet nonetheless everyone hates the race. For many people this chapter of the game was unbeatble until they added difficulties to the races. And even then, it's still frustrating to play. Without any doubt, this is the most difficult part of the game. The same approach like with the carplay applies for the gunplay aswell. It can be challenging at first, when you notice, that you're throwing an intire mag away when reloading. Or the recoil. Or how your aim shakes, when moving your crosshair. Or that your health does not regenerate. But eventually you get the hang of it. You learn to shoot more precise. You get frugal with your ammo and you discover that your rolls a very nice trick, to reload your gun faster and avoid bullets. As for the veriety of guns. The arsenal is kept very simple. One pistol, few revolvers, one smg, two shotguns, two rifles and a few malees. And eventhough those are not alot of weapons, most of them are really fun to play (Accept for the melees). After you're finished with the story there are still some cool things to enjoy for the hardcore fans. You have a free roam mode with lots of fun and difficult chalenges (In some instances you need a fps-lock to get trought the challenges tho), and there are some secrets or useful bugs to be found in the story. So in conclusion the game is a great classic, but I can hardly suggest it to others Its a product of its time and it takes some nerves to learn, that old games have just diffrent rules than modern ones. But if you're are intrested dispite all of that. Maybe give it a go. I give Mafia The City of Lost Heaven 9/10.

The definitive edition is better overall, but I still love the original, one of the best third-person shooters I've ever played. Now I'll say this now, this game is hard as balls. Don't say nobody warned you if you get this game, because it is very difficult, especially in the late-game. It's not a traditional cover shooter, there's no "cover" button, you have to find your own cover, enemies are fairly smart, they'll typically utilize cover, they'll try to flush you out of cover if they have grenades, the police that chase you aren't pushovers either and they're a significant threat in car chases.

All that being said, the story is master class, it feels like you're in a classic gangster film, and the world, while it may be underwhelming by today's standards, is still expansive and fairly immersive for what it is. Driving is actually pretty fun and realistic considering the cars it's trying to emulate, and how old the game is. Gunplay is nice, they feel very impactful (especially the shotguns and Tommy guns) and they're all fun to use. This game gets a 10/10 from me, it plays great despite its age, and the story is one of the most cinematic in gaming (especially for the early 2000s). Do yourself a favor and get Mafia, it may be unrelentingly difficult, but the story makes that difficulty feel all the more satisfying to overcome.

games easy

a good old classic i gotta say, but i just suck at time limits

One of the legends.
One of the few.
And the only game where I would tell you to play it with Czech voice acting even if you don't understand it.

I grown up playing this and now, 20 years later, it's still so good that the old graphics doesn't really matter.

The game doesn't start on 64 bit systems (be it Linux or the Microsoft thing) by default, it keeps launching setup.exe instead of game.exe. The solution is Widescreen fix. It doesn't only fix widescreen issues, despite the name, it fixes the whole game and adds some nice configuration options via *.ini files.

Then launch it with the following parameters (Linux) to load the widescreen fix/mod:
WINEDLLOVERRIDES="d3d8=n,b" %command%

Last but not least, it runs on an RX 7900 XT with maxed out settings :)

After almost 23 Years still a great game to play with a thrilling story.

Yes the graphics are a little bit old but its definetly the best game of the series you have to play if you like video games!

Masterpiece

hard

Top game. Very well made for 2002, but if you want it, think carefully because even that same GTA is much easier to pass than this, the police here will interfere with you so much (exceeded the speed by 1 mile, crashed into a pole, ran a red light, they are already chasing you) and besides this there are 3 types of police: 1 pedestrian, 2 by car, 3 national guard,
NPCs on missions react to you in a split second and it is impossible to complete the mission without taking damage. so if you like to go through difficult games or when you are in pain, I highly recommend it

It is just great.

This game makes me hate driving.

ONE HELL RIDE OF A GAME WITH AMAZING STORY AND CHARACTERS
even if the shooting aged really bad and the driving which you spend the entire time doing it still worth it

23 years later it's still one of the best and most advanced open world games ever made.

Love the story thus far and would like to keep going but there is simply too much driving and it's not very good.

One of the greatest games from 2000s.

I got filtered so hard.
Couldn't even get to the racing mission everyone loves before I gave up.

Mafia is the quintessential difference between other gangster games and in this game the story gives reason for the action to exist, It doesn't work the other way around. With a compelling story line, and one ingenious mission after another, Mafia has enough firepower to keep you playing until the end. Mafia is dripping with style and class and it is a cult classic underrated masterpiece in gaming history imo. 10/10

Ayyy a Gabagool, start as a cab driver and end with questioning your life choices while wearing a fedora. 10/10 would get whacked again

playing this game since I was a kid! Awesome!

One of the best games ever made. Still great in 2025.

gabagool simulator

Great game!

me dont like

Absolute masterpiece

The year is 1938, mafioso Thomas Angelo sits down with a detective and makes him an offer he can't refuse. In exchange for the protection of his family and himself, Tommy will tell his story. A story spanning eight years of how an ordinary cab driver fell in with one of the most powerful organised crime families of Lost Heaven, their dealings as well as his own involvement... And his personal conflicts with the business.

Mafia is an American gangster take on the open-world/crime genre that features some of the most interesting mechanics i've ever seen that have never been replicated in other games before or since.

Set over the course of eight years in Prohibition era America, Mafia's story takes a thrilling fish out of water approach with our protagonist as he's thrust into the life of a mafioso and quickly earns favor among his peers and the Don. But the life isn't easy, as threats rise with a rival family in the city as well as the crooked cops that patrol the streets, on the take from both families. Each mission is rife with risk and danger, scaling with the stakes of each job Tommy's tasked with.

Tied in with the Salieri family, Tommy will work alongside Paulie and Sam who are fellow mobsters within the family. Often times Tommy will be paired up with Paulie to build up a friendship between the two characters but Sam will join in on the more bigger jobs that Don Salieri tasks the trio with. The Don himself is a tough but fair leader, rewarding his soldiers with praise and respect for completing work while constructing plans to poke the bear against the rival Morello family. Next to the Don at all times is his Consigliere, Frank, who takes caution initially with Tommy's introduction to the family but eventually warms up as the story progresses. There's also Vincenzo who keeps the Salieri family armed for jobs and stuttering Ralph who keeps looking after whatever cars the crew needs to take out and ones that the player can bring back and save to bring out on story missions.

Mafia's gameplay is certainly a product of it's time with how rough it can be for a new player. From a third person camera that sticks to Tommy's back to the massive amounts of recoil with weapons, the vehicle physics that can be chalked up to how semi-period accurate the cars are and how health is regenerated from rare to find medical cabinets in each story mission. The car physics are put to the real test in one of the earliest missions of the game that puts you in a race with turns you HAVE to slow to a crawl for and other racers that will deliberately smash into your side and cause a disastrous spin out. But once you get used to how Mafia plays, it's a really good game.

The police/wanted system is also interesting to me. Instead of other games of the genre where police will ignore minor infractions of the law and immediately start shooting when you do get their attention, Mafia aims for a more realistic approach. Speeding or running a red light in front of an officer or a police car will draw their attention to try and issue the player with a ticket. Stopping and paying the fine is a good option as the chance of the police upgrading their status to try and arrest you for not stopping is fair and they can be annoying to try and lose. Stay in their sites for too long in a chase and a general alert will be issued meaning nearby police cars will join in on the chase just for you being in the rough area they exist in. The only time police start shooting is if the player shoots first. Having a gun out in your hands just makes the police default to try and arrest the player.

Mafia also keeps track of how much fuel is in your car. Run out and you'll stop dead in your tracks, but there are a few service stations to get refuelled and continue on your way. It's the little touches like this that make me appreciate a game that bit more.

The city of Lost Heaven is a great setting. Keeping in mind that this is a game from 2002, it's impressive with how much scope and thought was put out into it's layout and the era appropriate architecture and set dressing. Streets are fairly narrow and public transport is everywhere. You probably wouldn't be able to go a few minutes in one direction in this game without seeing a streetcar or two going off in either direction. And what's impressive for a game of it's time is that both streetcars and trains can be boarded and take you around the routes they go on. Very rarely does the game take you off the main map but that's only during particular story segments.

But Mafia doesn't just come with it's story, there's also the Free Ride mode where you can earn cash from killing hostile gang NPCs, speeding above 70mph, destroying cars or even going back to Tommy's old ways of legitimate cash and taxiing people around the city. This cash can be spent on saving your Free Ride game, restoring health, repairing your car or buying guns and ammo. Free Ride will also give you access to any car that Ralph or other characters have shown you how to steal. Completing the main story will also unlock Free Ride Extreme which is a separate mode that contains a set of discover-able missions that reward some really uniquely designed or vastly upgraded versions of cars available around town.

There's also an entire "Carcyclopedia" that provides a sort of showroom view of all the cars in the game as well as some basic stats about each car.

However Mafia's not a game without flaws. On a technical aspect, the fog that shields most of the map is gross to the eyes and makes some of the Free Ride Extreme missions a little difficult with how it looks. Two missions in the Extreme mode also completely break if your FPS is any higher than 15-20. Both of these can be fixed with mods, thankfully.

Mafia's also quite a tricky game. Some missions that are combat heavy will just not have a single medical cabinet and your health gets drained quick so death may happen often. Checkpoints can also be few and far between, the final mission in particular can be daunting if you didn't gear up prior to attempting it as it's a bit of a slog until you finally get a checkpoint close to the end of it.

But overall, Mafia is a really good game. From story, to mission structure and gameplay and the little details that sets itself apart from most other games of the genre, i enjoyed my time playing it and recommend it to anyone interested in the series weather from a fresh perspective or comparing it to the Definitive Edition.

one of the worst games ive ever tried to play

These days, mainstream games are slowly declining to being a proper games that players from back then to the golden age where in app purchases weren't really much of a thing... basically when its those days where to say that a game is more of a quality oriented game than a money milker to devs.

Game stores are pretty much flooded with different games varying from very different themes and not all games really care for having a good taste from players due to being more rushed for monetary causes from devs.


Sandbox games are still pretty much the same as it was back then only with the sunny side of it being very beautiful visually and can be narratively compelling or maybe not. There's always ROCKSTAR GAMES that has our backs when we want an upbeat, cool and pretty much a fun sandbox games like RED DEAD REDEMPTION FRANCHISE that i really adore in terms of its lore and the game as a whole.... ofcourse theres also their GTA series.
So, AS FAR AS BACK AS I REMEMBER I ALWAYS WANTED TO BE A GANGSTER.
Personally i really prefer the gangster of the prohibition era vibe when it comes to these types of games. MAFIA the of game here is a very accurate game from its era depicting its world in a very cool way... the devs here really aimed for something . from the core gameplay itself to its depiction of era through music,guns, narration. every box has been ticked and its very promising from the very beginning thats why we got up to this point waiting for an upcoming mafia game later this year.

I TOTALLY RECCOMEND THIS GAME FOR EVERYONE ESPECIALLY THOSE FROM THE MOVIES LIKE ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA, GOODFELLAS AND THE GODFATHER FRANCHISE

A fantastic game: a rich storyline, immersive graphics, and well-executed development. Old-school, as they would say - which is to say magical. Really transports you to the time.

I really enjoyed it, the story is also good and interesting.

Still fun and challenging after so many years. Driving mechanics are pretty great even compared to some newer games that don't focus on the driving experience as much.

One of the best Mafia games first time playing just like the remake one and really liked it

bruh

nostalgic

i enjoyed, few flaws but good

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can't really recommend, gameplay is too stiff

This is my childhood. Don't think any game will ever match this experience. You gotta play Mafia.

classic