Mafia

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

Just yes.

driving is a nightmare

Fun and easy to play easy on the computer you use it on and very littel alterations were needed exsept for key maping for me. If you like gagster / moafia games this is for you for smaller pc's use the clssic if you are on a better pc use the definitive edtion.

I guess now the Mafia Definitve Edition (2020) is better than the Original, but back in 2002 Mafia was cult and a top notch atmosphere game.
Back in 2002 Mafia (Classic) = 9,2
Today (in 2025) Mafia (Classic) = 8,1
Today (in 2025) Mafia Definitive Edition (from 2020) = 8,7

Everyone who is interested in (PC) gaming history should have played it in my opinion.

well... it's good game with good graphics and mechanics by it's age but... I had so much problems with running the game, that I'm wondering if it's worth it...

That's a masterpiece from the good early days. A lot of people see Mafia series as a contender to GTA. And I can definitely see why, but to be honest, apart from the genre (open world, on foot/in car mechanics etc) they are totally different games.
GTA is more about modern-world and funny with own quirks.
But Mafia looks like a serious movie-like experience.

Animations here to be honest are much more detailed than in Starfield :D
Also, there are a lot of details, in each mission there are some things game does not tell you. Sometimes there are several ways it can develop or end, sometimes it's smaller things that can help to draw less cops, make car chase easier and so on.

Races. Mafia at first had to be a racing game only, that's why we have an interesting car physics model, a VERY impressive car damage model, speed limits, red light tickets and so on. Of course they could not leave all their ideas aside, so we have got the legendary RACES mission, which at the time of my childhood was almost unbeatable for most of my friends, including me :D Also, at that time we could not skip it. In Steam's version you can choose an option "Skip Race" and move on, so don't be afraid. But I have got first place this time on Normal, so another childhood's demon has been destroyed :D

Story is mostly serious, only sometimes you can have some jokes or funny moments. It's a tough story about criminal world.

Music. It's awesome, songs are very well selected for time period and help with immersion greatly. But I HATE when in purchased product you get some things removed because some "licence" has expired. I don't care that it expired, I have purchased the product in specific state. Make restrictions for new purchases, for example. But good news: just grab a simple mod that restores original music.

Difficulty. There are no settings for that apart from races. I have found that Mafia is pretty easy now for me, except several missions. But the worst part is a final "fight" sequence at the very end, because your enemy is basically cheating. Using Thompson he is 100% accurate if you are out of your cover. Also, after a hit you can't do anything, so if you are being shot at - you are just standing and catching bullets with no way to move or shoot back. And after several seconds it's game over. To be honest, this fight is absolutely stupid in terms of difficulty. I know that it had to be hard, but not in this cheating way.
Mostly problem with difficulty is because of:
- a clunky controls
- a huge recoil from weapons
- shotguns can kill you almost instantly

I was surprised that Mafia works on Win11 without any problems, no need for any patches or mods, impressive.

Overall, I highly recommend to play it if you are OK with older visuals :)

classic

Nostalgia !

One of the best stories ever portrayed in a video game !
Game is still playable , still enjoyable and is just the way I remembered it

Great story and the cutscenes are edited really well, but man the driving and shooting (which is basically the whole game) is just awful, also this version got rid of the original music and that sucks.

masterpiece

The original Mafia may be too old and with unfamiliar mechanics, but as a story it is a true masterpiece. and I highly recommend you try it.

mafia is an amazing classic from the PS2 days. Always fun!

"The guy who wants too much risks losing absolutely everything. Of course, the one who wants too little from life might not get anything at all"

Words cannot describe how much i love this game <3

Absolutely awful and i don't know where to begin. Keybinds are all off, the aim is garbage, you die way too easily, it's not even enjoyable i spend more time replaying the same scenes over and over.

This game is like a bad case of hemorrhoids. One of the few games i've played that made me just quit out of frustration. Play the definitive edition instead of this turd of a game.

It used to be one of my favourite games on PC back in my teenage. It has some nice realistic details for being an old game. It's ugly graphics for todays standard ofc. Play the remake then.

When I first showed this to a friend back in the day, they could not believe that the gameplay looked the same as the cutscenes. That WAS huge in the old days! This was an incredible game, and an amazing world to walk around in. NOw... it feels pretty empty. Most of the world is uninhabited, and the vast majority of the buildings are just set dressing. Still worth a look for the history alone, but not as jaw dropping as it once was.
Also, DAMN YOU, PAULIE!!!

Jank and janker, but still fun. Story is pretty good and voice acting ranges from great to absolute trash. Driving cars is fine, which is actually most of the game. I suggest using manual instead of automatic since it's more fun. Great deal on sale, just from a bucks per hour perspective pretty good full-priced too. 8/10

goated