This is a gem of a game wrapped up in all the heavily branded nonsense and occasional technical shortcuts of modern AAA titles, and yet despite the handful of flaws that cropped up in my time with it I was very glad to see it get a little more tender loving care. There was also a very obnoxious 2K logo that refused to go away until I made an account and signed into their online service, which seemed unnecessarily pushy.
There were times where the game struggled and stuttered. Obviously we can’t expect those original recordings to get magically upscaled for the new version, but a little more prominence would go a long way. The aged parts are definitely creaking a little, and in a game that relies quite heavily on dialogue to set the scene, it’s a real shame to hear the original voice lines get muddled behind music or ambient sound. It’s still a pleasure to revisit the game’s stellar story, which is given more weight by the added consequences for breaking the law in the open world. Driving and shooting are a little janky, definitely feeling like a PS3 game with a facelift (which to be fair, it is). It’s a good balance between authenticism and enjoyable game mechanics, something Red Dead Redemption II would go on to dramatically overdo.Ĭertain parts of the game have not aged so well.
In fact, if you go above the speed limit, the police will pay attention to that, and the small touches like this help the game feel more deliberate and grounded. There’s no tearing around the streets at high speeds or outrageous set-pieces with submarines or fighter jets. It’s refreshing, after years of GTA and Saint’s Row to go back to an open-world crime game that takes itself seriously. He’s a serious guy doing bad things, but he lives by a code. Vito Scaletta is a man with flexible morals, working his way up the criminal ranks, hungry for all the luxuries and comforts life has always denied him. They carried that ethos forwards into Mafia III, which, whilst perhaps not the more accomplished game, still recreated a time period sometimes uncomfortably well.
Not just as a free-roaming crime game, but as an exceptionally well-developed and authentic period piece that captures the atmosphere of old-school mafia movies and 1940’s “New York”. If you missed it the first time around, it’s definitely worth your interest now. Let’s just get that out of the way first. So what’s an Italian-American to do, with his family indebted to dangerous loan sharks, and a best friend with mob connections? With one phone call, your buddy gets you discharged from the army for good, and what was meant to be a brief stay becomes permanent. An old friend is driving you around, taking you for a drink to celebrate your return from the war.Ĭhristmas songs croon on the radio as snow blankets the streets, and by all accounts, it seems like a perfect time to be back. Not home, home – not the sunny, embattled Sicily your parents took you from as a child, but the teeming, crisscrossed streets of Empire Bay in Mafia II.
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