Thomas “Tommy” Angelo, a taxi driver living in the 1930s in Lost Heaven (based on San Francisco and Chicago), enters a mafia gang led by Don Salieri and gets mixed up in a storyline including many plots, robberies and assassinations, later deciding to become an informant against the mob. Driven by third-person gunplay, realistic driving mechanics and advanced graphics, Mafia immerses the player into a real-world mobster story.
Mafia contains a much bigger city to explore than most video games of the time, with multiple forms of available transport in addition to an expansive countryside. The game received positive reviews for the Windows version, with critics praising the game as a more realistic and serious Grand Theft Auto-styled game.
Mafia contains a much bigger city to explore than most video games of the time, with multiple forms of available transport in addition to an expansive countryside. The game received positive reviews for the Windows version, with critics praising the game as a more realistic and serious Grand Theft Auto-styled game.
Experience New Heaven
Explore more than 12 square miles of New Heaven, a quintessential 1930’s American city based on historic Depression-era architecture and culture.
Authentic Story and Action-packed Gameplay
Play more than 20 thrilling missions inspired by events from the 1930’s. Rise through the ranks of the Salieri family from foot-soldier to Made Man, taking on mob hits, car chases, bootlegging, shootouts, bank robberies and more.
Era-inspired Vehicles and Weapons
As a daring getaway driver, get behind the wheel of more than 60 historically-inspired cars featuring realistic physics and real-time damage.
Complete those grittier jobs with more than a dozen weapons at your disposal. Choose from baseball bats, sawed-off shotguns, magnums and the renowned Tommy gun to deal with any wise guy who dares to cross you.
Mafia is set in the 1930s, between the fall of 1930 through to the end of 1938, during the later part of Prohibition, which ended in 1933. The game is set in the fictional American city of Lost Heaven (loosely based on New York City, Philadelphia and Chicago of the same time period).
The player takes the role of taxi driver Thomas "Tommy" Angelo, who, while trying to make a living on the streets of Lost Heaven as a taxi cab driver, unexpectedly and unwillingly becomes involved in organized crime as a driver and enforcer for the Salieri crime family, led by Don Ennio Salieri.
| Minimum System Requirements | Recommended System Requirements | |
| CPU | Pentium III 500MHz/ Athlon XP 1600+ | Intel Pentium 4 1.8GHz / AMD Athlon XP 1600+ |
| VRAM | 16 MB | 128 MB |
| RAM | 128 MB | 128 MB |
| OS | Windows 98, ME, 2000 or XP | Windows 98, ME, 2000 or XP |
| Graphics Card | 16 MB video card with DirectX 8.1 compatible drivers | nVidia GeForce 7300 LE / AMD Radeon X1270 |
| Direct X | Version 9.0 | DX 9 |
| SOUND CARD | Yes | DirectX 8.1 compatible sound card |
| HDD Space | 2 GB | 2 GB |
| CD-ROM | 16x CD / DVD ROM drive | 32x CD / DVD ROM drive |
| Game Analysis | The player takes the role of taxi driver Thomas (Tommy) Angelo, who, while trying to make a living on the streets of Lost Heaven, unexpectedly and unwillingly becomes involved in organized crime as a driver for the Salieri crime family, led by Don Salieri.Through the events of the game's story, Tommy begins to rise through the ranks of the Salieri 'family', which is currently battling the competing Morello family, led by the sharply-dressed Don Morello. Eventually becoming disillusioned by his life of crime and violence, Tommy arranges to meet a detective (Detective Norman) in order to tell him his story, to be given witness-protection, and to aid the detective in the destruction of the Salieri crime family. The 'Intermezzo' chapters of the game depict Tommy sitting in a cafe with the detective, relating his life story and giving out important pieces of information at the same time. | |
| High FPS | 113 FPS ( GTX 1060 ) | |
| Note | Keyboard, mouse | |
| Optimization Score | 8.3 | |
- Brilliant Story/Storytelling and Dialogue
- Beautiful World
- Realistic Car design
- Good music choice
- Some dated visual elements even for the time.
- Realistic Car Handling can be frustrating on some missions.
- Gunplay is a bit dated.
Mafia is a game which is similar to the groundbreaking GTA III but very much different in how it uses its approach to the world you’re set in. Mafia is set in a era that is unexpected to the gaming world, the old-time feel the era of the 1930’s. The game starts from the early 1930’s near to the 40’s, though the game shows an astounding amount of change, in its detail of the world and how the culture shifts from one to another. This is one of the dedicated parts to the games production. The developers show that they care more about the story and the setting it’s located in. The change of time after each mission will unlock a certain area that wasn’t restricted before, the areas will all have different music to them, in which it helps provide an accurate look and feel of the place. The music is the classic songs of the era. Most notably the song ‘The Mooch’ by the famed Jazz musician Duke Ellington. Indeed Mafia’s care with the setting also shows how much the story and characters are developed in this game. Mafia’s story is one of rags to riches and how all violence leads to many consequences. Though being a standard overview of the entire game, the detail of each mission and aspects of dialogue and storytelling is wholly unique. The game provides a world for you to look and see, without limiting it to certain locations. Though mostly the game will provide a ton of unique location specific for that mission, the game’s world can feel sometimes being wasted away. But not as much.
The environment and changing of years relates to the setting very well. The game provides many location where your jobs or missions have unique interaction with the environment. This is a immersive technique that is pull off masterfully.
Graphically the game is fantastic, though some textures and voice animations are sometimes a bit choppy, the game is still artistic well design, this is also thanks to the time periods that you go through and the changing of culture. The game also uses a very cinematic feel the cut-scenes and events, certainly there’s an element of the melodrama genre. The gunplay is sometimes though can be left to be desired. It’s still consist but sometimes a bit of an irritation to do at certain point of a mission. Another feature that is unique is how it deals with realistic car handling .The game provides different cars from different time period and how they change and handle overtime. Mission that involve car driving can provide to be quite frustrating even if it is realistic. The biggest problem with the game though is the lack of replay value for the open-world. Though the developers have provided a interesting option of free-roam and free-roam extreme to have fun and try out a few changes that they’ve added in.
Conclusion: Mafia is by far a masterpiece of gaming cinematic storytelling, it uses the world around you, with the gameplay and story to provide you with an unforgettable experience.
The Best Game played ever, Mind blowing piece of art,
Try it out, or one of its Series, all are marvellous, but Mafia 1 ( lost heaven is the Best )