Mafia Analytical Review - minimme
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- čas přidán 10. 03. 2017
- This is an analysis of Mafia which doesn't take a look at it's story - so outside of showing lategame gameplay, it doesn't have any story spoilers.
I didn't know what to call this video, so if anyone thinks of a better title leave it as a comment
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Hey lads I'm getting a few "you're just blinded by nostalgia" comments lately so I just wanna say I first played this on Steam in December of 2010, after Mafia 2's release and over 8 years after the initial release. It's still one of my favourite games :)
I was 2 years old when this game released and I first played it when I was 17. So the "blinded by nostalgia" comments make no valid argument
I first played it in 2011, abandoned it, and returned to beat it in 2014. Loved it when I gave it a second chance and it's now one of my favourites.
The gunplay is only hard if you grew up with games that were made after 2007 or so. Games that are easy and hold your hand.
It's challenging and really awesome. I never did that look around corner camera 'trick' because the game was alright as it was. It takes a little getting used to but it's a perfect challenge
When this game has came out, I was only 18. This game made GTA 3 look like a paper. Graphics, atmosphere and the dark, depressed feeling this game gave you is priceless. Mafia 2 didn't have that dark and depressed feeling. I'm not saying It's a bad game but Mafia The City of Lost Heaven is better. It's more realistic.
Even though a few years back it cost me a keyboard and a mouse (no joke!) - i am absolutely inlove with it! Now please excuse me - i have to install it again. :)
This is still the only game I know of where the enemies will run out of bullets, just like the player.
more games should have this enemies and their unlimited ammo breaks the i word
And i noticed it today, after years, thanks to some random dude on the tube. That is a masterpiece of videogame history.
I noticed years ago.
A cop started shooting me and after a while, he yelled "I need Ammo!"
gameboy7161 There were so many neat little touches that drew you in. I wish it’d kept that sensibility into the sequels.
This can also happen in the original Deus Ex. Another great classic game.
You can't trust a person that plays Mafia without music on.
Copyright
@@randomthingz2showrandomthi208 on some ninety-year-old songs... 🤣
@@PACKERMAN2077 you'll be surprised how many 30-200 year old songs are copy righted on youtube.
@@randomthingz2showrandomthi208 no I know about it it's just still funding on the less especially when you hear a recording of a song that is older than the invention of recording, and it still gets copyrighted
@@randomthingz2showrandomthi208 seriously they cut out songs from steam-like editions? Good thing I have mine on physical media...
People often forget how gaming industry looked in 2002 and only compare old games to what's avalible today. It's like watching a 1940's film and saying it's crap because today we have CGI.
Yep, I was there in 2002 and actually had Mafia on pre-order. Frankly, it lived up to EVERY expectation at the time - it was an incredible game.
hermand the gas tank and flat tires features blew me away at the time
@@peaceandwealthseeker4504 yeah it was really amazing for that time.
1940's films are better though (mostly)
It ages really badly, mechanics wise, if it's so realistic, why can't my car that's going 100kph knock over a light pole? The controls are wonky at best and the shooting tries to be realistic but falls flat on its face. Overall it IS a good game, just one I could not bring myself to complete.
When i first got through mafia back in the day, i really thought it was one of the best games ever made. And now billion games later.... i still think the same.
It was the best game ever. People forget what time it came out and what were the other games.
@@copperfronts1679 The lights from the gun when the bullets were fired was so surreal. It surpassed every game that came out. The story telling, the graphics, the music- oh the intro music!!, and great fuckin attention to every little detail.
It is what masterpieces are made of.
Sooo true😊
Good on you. Nothing will ever beat Mafia.
those graphics look great for 2002
beacause its running on LS3D Engine illusion softworks in-house engine
Blew my mind at the time
Yeah, it really stands out. I would never have guessed this game released before GTA:VC.
The character models are pretty out of control given the time.
Vice city has shitty graphics
The cars for me were really fun to drive because of how different it felt to drive them, in the end I could even remember most of their names.
i love the fact, that they rebuild existing old cars from that era. Including all the specifications, the way doors open (suicide doors on Lassiter V16), Engine sounds (ulver aistream) etc. Lucas Bertone and Ralpe tell you so many little details about the cars. "they changed the lock" "front wheel drive" etc.
You had to learn how to steal them... every one felt different
I loved those details and I personally loved having to slam on the brakes when seeing a cop turn on the street or having to slam the brakes to stop at the redlight a cop was at. Also, the way you didn't HAVE to kill a cop if you couldn't outrun him right away, you could just stop, get out, and pay your ticket and leave.
And how the fast cars from the beginning of the game were pieces of shit in the end.
Also the bloody manual transmission! I cannot think of any other open world game like this where you have a manual car.
Every time I hear that theme song, I get goosebumps. EVERY damn time. Been playing this game on/off since 2004 and it still fucking gets me. The atmosphere this game creates is one of it's strongest aspects.
See you had the console version then lol
killer1one1 - I totally agree! The best thing about the first Mafia game was the music and the incredible atmosphere of living in that city. Brilliant! I wish they would re-create this game with modern graphics but with the exact same characters, story and music! I would buy it and play it all over again!
TU DU TU TU TU, TU TU DU. TU DU TU TU TU, TU TU DU. TU DU TU TU TU, TU TU DU. TU DU TU DU TU TU.
I would often stay at the menu screen for a while, just listening to that music and being amazed at how smooth the camera panned around the room. The old projector whirring away, it's light illuminating some slowly swirling smoke... great detail.
in Germany we have a rapper named Kollegah who used the Theme Song for his Song "Alphagenetik"
I find myself frustrated with the way this series has been compared to GTA. Mafia's open world is there to create a sense of place. It's not meant to be GTA. Nevertheless, it has been punished by some for not being what it wasn't even trying to be.
It's mostly because of Mafia 2 and especially 3.
Yeah and even developers said they never knew about GTA 3. They loved GTA 1 and 2 and so they told themselfs let's do a gangster game but in 3D. The first time they saw the GTA 3 was like 3 months before its release. Maybe if Mafia came first everybody would compare the GTA to the Mafia and not Mafia to GTA. Second and third game was developed under 2K publisher so investors pushed developers to make it more like GTA and it wasn't a Mafia since.
I dont mind it being compared to GTA it was better in all aspects.
well thats the point.
Not to mention this game has started development way before GTA 3.
beat this game as a kid and i dont remember being annoyed or bored by anything in this game
Me too, where were some hard levels but i was so interested to the story i kept playing. Same with shadow tactics, they are hard and realistic games and its a shame that they get criticized for that.
But that car race though
@@AchiragChiragg The car race is like playing an instrument. With enough practice, you hit all the right notes and there are just a few bits where you really need to be careful so as not to mess it up. By the fifth time I finished the game as a kid, it was one of my most fun levels.
I played this the week it came out I was about 7 lol I remember it was fucking hard man I couldn’t do it
The mission were you sneak into the mansion fucked my head
This game is a masterpiece.
I can’t wait to play my favorite game of all time. in august 28. (Remake or remade)
F-O-X-N4 Same
That clip of you and the AI reloading at the same time was actually cool as shit
yeah I thought so too haha, 13:16 for anyone wondering
13:18 - Holy heck
Man, I remember those moments when I was standing face to face with an enemy, both reloading like crazy not sure who'll have the first shot, but knowing there won't be any second shot. Mafia's shootouts were clunky, but also tense as all hell.
Happens all the time to me
You can reload faster if you do a side roll
It has turning lights on the cars...
So does Watchdogs and that sure made it a best seller....
Dude... R U 4 real?
@@lonelyprisoner0174 no yeah it's called sarcasm.
It has clips and empty bullet shells lying on the ground, it has bloody foot steps when you walk through the blood, it has bullet holes in cars, it has broken glass on the ground when you break it, you can play music on a gramophone, you can talk to people on the streets, you can see them doing their daily jobs or listen to what they are talking about, when it came out in 2002 we were in elementary school and our parents thought we are watching a movie, not playing a game, I mean even gta san adreas has worse graphics, only thing I hated is the linear story, I wanted some choice in killing(or not) the cruical characters
Yep, working turn signals. Not the first, not the last.
An absolute masterpiece. Easily, by far and away, the best Mafia game of the 3. I thought the combat was great, particularly when you are driving. Cops and gangsters on your tail and you and your boys firing out the window at other cars, watching them spin out of control when you hit their tires or panic when their driver is hit. Very exhilarating stuff in that game, and the missions are nearly all brilliant. Apart from that damn race of course...
Agreed, a masterpiece.
Here in CZ where it all originated. We dont take Mafia 3 as Mafia so please dont use Mafia 3 with even a slight conjuction with legendary mafia 1
I cheated that race everytime😂😂😂
I don't get what the problem is with the race. You could even set the difficulty to your level. Great mission in my opinion. It brings even more variety to the game and tells about how races were during that time.
@@dariolance7637 The version I played (and beat) as a kid did not have a difficulty setting. Pretty sure about that.
Nice review! I actually loved the vehicle physics in Mafia. Sure they're slow and heavy, but they're so detailed that different cars actually *feel* different to drive - not just in terms of speed but also because of suspension, brakes, size and weight... A massive, softly sprung V16 Cadillac feels completely different to a wobbly little Model T with atrocious brakes, which is different again to any of the sports cars. It was detailed enough that you could feel the steady improvements as newer cars became available, in a way that reminds me of the Evolution mode from Need for Speed: Porsche Unleashed.
This is no small feat in a non-sim driving game. That level of depth keeps me engaged way longer than the kind of easy, arcadey physics people wished for in its place. And it's worth noting that the dynamic 'deformation' style vehicle damage mechanic in Mafia was ahead of its time. GTA only finally caught up with GTA 4, 6 years later.
Speaking of GTA 4, that's the only non-racing game I've played to equal Mafia in terms of satisfyingly detailed, weighty vehicle physics, and a lot of people hated on that too for it, go figure.
The driving made the vehicle chases a chore in GTA 4, mostly on the motorcycle chases.
If you want to get some of that experience back again, a sort of demo of how Mafia 4 could look & play like in 2019, get the BeamNG game, download Mafia 1 map mod, spawn in one of the classic 50s/60s cars and just enjoy. Play with a wheel for maximum effect.
Been playing that for the past few weeks. It's amazing, but also kinda sad as it reminds me of where we could be in 2019 with games had we taken a different path since the release of Mafia 1.
czcams.com/video/CkLHOm9DvR0/video.html the only video I could find.
@@mattmattmatt131313 That seems cool, yes I hope too that in the next years BeamNG will be the default car gameplay for any game ^^ I know this way of feeling about what games became next to what they could have been... Let's hope for the futur !
I agree, i always found it stupid for people hating a good physics
Surprisingly, all video games that you mentioned except GTA (H&D, Vietcong, Arma and Euro Truck Simulator) are made by Czech developers as well.
even arma?
well Arma was developed by BOHEMIA interactive, so yeah....
@@tanveerhasan2382 yes, originally this series was called Operation Flashpoint. And then the same thing with idiocy of the publisher happened. This is really why Mafia 3 is really far from good game and far from the heritage of the series as a failure of Operation Flashpoint Dragon Rising,...
Heyy, I was just made aware of this post by a friendly redditor (I wrote the post you refer to in the video). Truth is, I misworded my complaint about the non-existent "cover system" and additionally, I came to respect the game's realistic ambitions in the 2 years that passed by, and though I still don't think the game did a very good job with sticking to and executing on them, and though I generally don't get much of a kick out of realism in general (in literature as well as videogames) I quite loved your fair analysis and explanation for why you love it as you do. Thank you for your rebuttal, I came out of it respecting the game a bit more and remembering more of the good things about it instead of the bugs I was unfortunate enough to encounter. All the best :)
PS. I seem to have missed the comment you wrote on the post back then, to this day I'm not very competent when it comes to navigating Reddit and managing notifications. Sorry about that.
Hey man thanks for coming and checking this out :) as I said I get your view entirely, I just felt like I had something unique to say about the game and your post was a good starting point. Super glad you enjoyed this analysis though I appreciate that
the main menu music gives me goosebumps to this day
this was the first game that made me cry
Same mate
Bingo! I thought I was the only one utterly shocked and sad when the two guys walked up to Tommy and shot him dead.
"Mr. Angelo?? Mr. Salieri sends his regards." *POP*
"You know it... The world isn't run by the laws written on paper. It's run by people... "
Oh man... The dialogues were fuckin incredible
@@appleipadcrazy Mafia 1 is in our hearts I feel u bro
Paulie was worse for me
@@appleipadcrazy ”You know, I think it's important to keep a balance in things. Yeah, balance, that's the right word. Cause 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.”
That line sticked to my skin like flaming plastic.
that intro , that feeling hearing the intro melody , damn the 2000's best time to be a kid ! .... i miss them so much .
Did people really whine about driving? And praise GTA's one-dimensional Go-cart driving where every car handled exactly the same as an example of doing things right? This is absolutely nuts!! Where do I even start?
1. While there are slow cars in Mafia, like the Ford Model T, you will learn to avoid them. Likewise you also need to learn which the decent ones are and they are always available in the streets. It's called a challenge. Faster and more special cars can be gained through side missions.
2. Speeding and escaping police was possible and a huge fun. You just had to trick them into making a mistake.
3. The difference between modern and old cars is that modern cars have higher limits of grip are safer. Therefore, from the perspective of a video game, old car can be more fun most of the time, because you don't need be driving at ridiculous speed to worry about stability. In Mafia, you have to balance the car with throttle and steering inputs. You can hit a curb and spin out. You can die in crash. Where in GTA3 do you have such sophisticated mechanics? You could drive crash multiple times and take no damage. All vehicles in GTA3 had the same health, regardless of size, it was all dumbed down as fuck compared to Mafia.
TL;DL: Claiming that Mafia's driving wasn't fun is a mental illness occurring in casual wankers who prefer 'gamey' mechanics and handholding over authenticity, not legitimate criticism.
good job lmao, you've completely missed the point of this comment.
the one thing you forget to mention is graphics and how well ahead of its time is, look at gta 3 which was in the same period hell in gta SA thei don't eaven have individual fingers. Same for mafia 2 and 3 that engine fabulos.
well maybe mafia 2, 3 was pretty standard for the time.
Jaiver Salazar Ortiz Mafia 3 didn’t look all that great, but the facial animations were fantastic.
That's true, but you need a mod for view distance.
Nowadays that's cool, but the game suffered for it.
Mafia was a notoriously a BITCH to play at launch.
It had the best ear graphics for the time.
The ears were extremely realistic.
I remember playing RDR and thinking that the ears are only a little better looking than mafia 1 despite almost a decade between them
Mafia is like a book without illustrations. It's not for everyone nor everyone will understand it.
Cooper I'd say it is comics rather than a book 😃. But still, it is a good comparison.
What? Book without illustrations are the most common and popular books out there.
perhaps a physics textbook
Thiago Vidal Yeah, that's what I was about to comment. Not a good comparison.
It’s best game ever everyone adores it
Great review. First played this game in 2007. Most of my nostalgia is from ~2010-2011 though. This game's community used to be amazing, sadly it's mostly gone now. I remember the hype and subsequent disappointment at Mafia 2. Great times.
I've also played through the game 5-6 times, but before 2013 or so I played the missions individually, without playing the game through wholly. If I count every mission seperately, then the completion number is definitely 10-20.
You failed to mention Freeride Extreme, which I think is a great addition to the base game. It focuses on the driving part, and not the shooting. By completing submissions, you unlock prototypes, which are really fun cars. Great for stunting aswell.
Also, I noticed you have flashing shadows. This is a problem on modern systems, which is fixed by using a program known as 3dAnalyzer. Apparently changing some settings in the setup works aswell but it didn't work for me.
Thankyou! I've also played through it a whole bunch of times too, it's such a fantastic game. The first time I finished it, I immediately started a new game and played through it again haha. And Mafia 2 doesn't even come close to scratching the same itch. I replayed 2 recently for an upcoming video and it's still pretty bad, though it seems to have a cult following of sorts.
I regret forgetting to mention Free Ride Extreme, though I wasn't much of a fan of it. The flashing shadows thing you'll notice is only from footage of early game, I found that 3D analyzer program after getting fed up with it :P
I wouldn't consider Mafia 2 bad, I still liked it a lot, but it just wasn't as good.
FRE is ridiculously hard at parts, and on modern systems requires limiting the frames on 2 submissions to make it bearable. I still haven't finished every submission.
I love this game and get awfully frustrated on how people don't give it a chance, I remember playing it right after GTA: San Andreas, which mecanically is the most advanced from the GTA 3 engine and the most impressive (it's my favorite from the 3 certainly), but after playing through Mafia I remember being puzzled why it was so ignored (well, the BEAST of a PC required on launch may have something to do with it), but now I get it.
One thing that I think that was "missing" from this review was the how the basic systems of the game have a heavy learning curve in which you'll eventually get almost to the level of play of something like GTA, it gives you perspective of being a lowlife rising up to being an agent of the player's will, which most games will give you straight away. It's true in the beggining that moving around town is mostly a chore as you're a lowly mafioso, but as you rise through the ranks and the skill level you'll be driving almost like in GTA by the end (the Silver Arrow is a beast, fuck speed limits) which, to me, is why the gameplay and not giving a fuck is SO ENJOYABLE.
One thing about the gunplay which I thinks is heavily forgotten is how diverse and enjoyable are the setpieces in which the firefights take place and while mechanically dated as fuck, even to the time, I really felt engrossed by fighting through the traps you'll have to face as a rising thug, the robbery and the last stand at the end of the game has a sublime background, worthy of a good mafia movie.
I remember there was a 70's mod in development for Mafia which had some great car models and an incredible-looking model of a Pan-Am airliner landing at the airport (it had onboard lights that realistically lit the tail, wings and interior for night landings). I don't think map editing was possible, though, so they couldn't update the city, just retexture parts of it. Also apparently the physics model, while good, was tailored for 1930's cars. If they tried to "realistically" make a rear wheel drive 400bhp muscle car it was uncontrollable.
The lead dev. Dan Vávra seem to enjoy realistic games he worked on mafia 1 and 2 a then went on to estrablish WarHorse studios wich has just finished kingdom come u can basicly compare it to something like Skyrim and Witcher and get the same video out of it
Thank you for the great review! I've been playing Mafia since its release in 2002, that would be 17 years by now (wow). I replay it almost every year (and still find some new things I didn't know about it), and consider it to be one of the best games ever made. Reviews like this keep Mafia alive and from beign unfairly forgotten!
"Infamous racing level" hey big shout out man because I didn't know others had a hard time with it as well. Makes me feel good
Good for you. They lowered the difficulty in later releases and patches though.
This is one of the few games i really felt like i was the character.
Free ride mode is sublime- tooling around the countryside at night in a bolt runabout has no equal
It's a shame you can't re-enter locations used in missions. Some of them were beautifully modelled
@@michaelmartin9022 I mean, you can reload the checkpoints and play them again. Not the same of course.
My mind was blown, when I discovered with the free ride mode how huge the world is. I got places that weren't even hinted at during the story mode.
played it when it came out, only thing you missed was how graphically fantastic this game was at the time. great game and luckily i never really struggled with the racing level like some did. I remember it being such an issue that there were forums for people to download save files that were just after the race. crazy stuff to think of today
"your car can run out of fuel"
you had my curiosity but now you have my attention
This game is like a national treasure here in the Czech Republic. Along with Vietcong, Hidden and Dangerous and Operation Flashpoint. Absolute masterpieces and timeless classics.
mafia has a great story, amazing graphics for the time and propably the best driving physics ever in this genre. its also pretty challenging (well atleast if you havent played through it 6 times like me) and it has great authentic feeling weapons. easily the best in the mafia series and it gets higher and higher in my personal "best games list" over the years. also what i forget is you basically MUST use the manual transmission - atleast in the earlier years because if you dont the cars are too slow and it just makes much more fun to shift, i mean in what other open world game can you do that? its awesome!
I agree with you.I liked the fact in Mafia 1 you can manually shift and even slip the clutch off the line in those cars.Amazing detail with the buildings, weapons and period music equals a great immersive experience.!!!
I just can't stop playing it and mafia 2 but unfortunately the level of detail has gone down and mafia 3 is just another copy of anything but mafia. It's a shame really
It looks so detailed for 2002!
One of my favorite gaming moments happened in this game years ago. Swinging the hunk of metal vehicle through the streets to escape a rival gang in pursuit . We drove into an underground tunnel and they pit maneuvered me almost perfectly. My car flew up onto the center rail and began to grind along it sideways, only the front wheels on the ground with the enemy vehicle pushing me along. We smashed into a concrete barrier at the other end of the tunnel, when my car stopped spinning I get out and draw my tommy gun only to find that the Mafiosa in the enemy vehicle are dead and their vehicle is just sat there busted with smoke pouring out of it. my vehicle is now back on the road and I drive off in a beaten up but still barely working car. It was such a cool moment, straight out of a movie.
Hey man, great video, but you completely missed out the extreme freeride.
Mafia 2 did many of the same things, the way you describe this game as an immersive, realistic experience that goes out of it's way to make a believable world... Totally applies to the second game.
This is why I hated Mafia 3, because they didn't try to make a believable city and a realistic story that immersed you in the setting... They just told a generic revenge story in a generic open world city, without any of the little details that made the first two games so memorable.
Mafia and Mafia 2 are two of the most legendary open world games I've played, in my opinion they deserve a spot alongside Red Dead and Grand Theft Auto... Mafia 3 will be lucky if people list it as one of the most disappointing sequels.
It wasn made by Dan Vavra the cc reator fo first Mafia he is unhealthy perfectionist for detail. czech out his next game called kingdom come deliverance. You will see same elvel of detail for living world like in mafia.
The world in Mafia 3 is realistic man. Come on. True not to the extent to the previous ones but enough.
This is how all reviews should be done. Great and thorough. Love your content.
Thanks :)
Mafia has a really good story that i didnt think was topped by another game like this until LA noire.
LA Noire was made by huge studio, Mafia was made by small studio in small country with great story and full of Czech famous actors that gave the life to the characters and even 12 years before LA Noire, you cant comoare these two games...
@@G59METH How's the fact that the country has a great story and is filled with famous Czech actors relevant to anything?
I remember loving the driving in this game, it felt realistic, especially with a steering wheel.
the attention to detail is what still impresses me to this day
you review all my favorite games from growing up. mafia, getaway, deadly dozen. subbed
that Racing Mission which was a huge pain in the ass was a great lesson to me somehow.
it taught me that when things get stuck I have to open my fucking mind and solve the problem instead of just getting angry.
I realized you just have to not use Accelerate when you're Cornering, as long as you brake and then Corner and after you're done steering you start accelerating you won't drift around, problem was when you use acceleration while you're cornering or steering your car would circle around and that's all you had to do to pass the mission, only use accelerate when you're not steering around.
I just loved the intro to the game.
Shame I can't find any mention of side missions in any review. They were fun as hell. After mission you just went to Lucas and he gave you tip how to steal new better car, that you could use in next mission. Also extreme ride was very good.
When I played Mafia II it felt empty. There were two guys with potential, but there weren't any missions for them. (Maybe one? I didn't go there after every mission, but every time I did, he said there's nothing for me right now.)
Agree with you ;) Mafia 2 felt so emty after Mafia 1, but Mafia 3 was disaster, they ruined mafia game series for me. But this dude didnt even mension a free ride mode after the story was finished. You could do some tasks and missions in a exchange for hot rod cars, and put them all in your safe house jard, and after getting all those hot rods, the jard was full with fast and crazy cars.....ahhh it was great times in mafia 1. I dont understand why this dude said that there are no roads out of the city, but there was. After finishing story mode and unlocking all hot rod cars, in a free ride there was so many country roads outside lost heaven!!!!!! I loved the concept in mafia 1 where you were able to park all stolen cars in a parking space behinde bar, it was such a feeling, that there was so many exclusive cars in one place, not like mafia 2 and 3.....on small garage and just scroll down to look at them - so stupid. Hope some day there will be another game like Mafia 1 :(
Solid video. I have never gotten to try it but I will play it as soon as I have a PC that can handle it. Looks surprisingly immersive, and I think part of me would LOVE the driving in it.
I replayed Mafia recently and was considering making a video on it similar to this one, but I might not have to since you share most of my feelings on the game. It's always cool when that happens.
I can relate to this! It's both super cool and kind of frustrating when this happens haha
If done properly, a Mafia remake with modern graphics and a modern engine would be phenomenal and could maybe even rival RDR 2 in terms of detail. They could expand on the vehicles, weapons, and soundtrack. And they could add side missions/activities, street racing, gambling, diners/restaurants, bars/nightclubs, barber shops, clothing shops, and pretty much anything else that would really bring the map to life and give the players plenty to do outside of the main story.
Man, have they listened to the community. I can't believe it's happening. Can you?
@@zaxlorax7605 Sadly they didnt fulfill his wish :(
Interesting video, Mafia is one of my favourite games. Still holds up 15 years later.
Damn this came out 1 year after GTA III? Really impressive. I can't believe I never heard of it growing up.
The first mafia still remains as my most favourite game. Still have it installed on my computer. My first play through in 2003 must have been at 25 fps in open areas with how damanding the game was. It was sooo far ahead of its time. I know people were disappointed in mafia 3 but even mafia 2 can't hold a handle to the first one.
Love everything about it. The driving, the firefights. One of the reasons people dislike it is because they got to experience the console version which were atrocious in execution. The ai was amazing for the time. The cops wouldn't just shoot on sight. They would exit their cars and chase you on foot and then hijack a nearby car to keep chasing behind the wheel.
Cars had breakable windshields, tires that could be popped or even shot off. In fact you could even puncture the gas tank and the car wouldn't explode but start leaking gas.
The game still has features that modern games simply do not have.
I love those firefight still. They feel awesome and a cover system is completely unnecessary. The controls are catered to a keyboard and mouse and feel great.
Cops can be avoided by a quick glance on the minimap after some practice. I don't think I ever follow the speed limit unless I feel like I want to immerse a bit deeper into the world.
I still play this game ocassionaly and the gameplay mechanics don't feel aged at all. I've always preferred realistic games to arcady ones. That is probably a big contributing factor.
Mafia is one of the first games i've played and it really left an impact on me. It surely is one of the greatest games I've ever played and surely is a complete classic.
Give The Saboteur a try. Was an immensely underrated game.
Godmason Frustrating as hell, I ragequit and uninstalled. Mafia1 is probably my fav game of all time.
Great game. Completed The Saboteur 4 times and once for a full 100%. Underrated and one of the greatest, I still own my Copy of the Special Edition which features the Strip Club with naked callgirls.
Mafia was one of my favourite game, very detailed analysis great work! hope you will do another one for the remake ;)
I think one of my favorite unsung features was how it handled navigation.
Having directions pop up like street signs was such a good design decision. (I only played the Remastered version, so not sure if that was in the original)
It makes no sense to me that so many developers spend millions building these open worlds, and then 50% of the time you're glancing up at the environment every once and a while and then going back to starting at the mini map.
"I liked the racing mission..."
*braces for hate filled replies*
Me too. :)
Me too, I think I managed to win first try :)
@@knusprigundfrisch That's crazy.
for the first time I played this in about 2004 I had to call my friend to pass that mission for me. When I played it recently I got it maybe on the second try :)
@@DanielAppel It's similar for me. I think my dad did it for me back in the day. Nowadays I can do it without much trouble.
Why the low sub count man? Your content is awesome!
Thankyou! It's growing super fast tho which is mad
i grew up with this game, i was just born 2 years before its release but thankfully i have older brothers who got this game and i was able to play it even as a little kid.
i would say that mafia even had a small inpact in my life that kinda made my personality.
it has great quotes throughout the whole story. for example the last words that tommy spoke just really gets to me.
and it taught me that if im patient enough, i will succeed.
even the theme song wich plays when you are in the main menu is just so beautiful
to me this theme represents life in a kinda way of music
i dont know, maybe im just a mafia 1 nerd, but its how i feel
I have watched this review many times over the year, but only today did I pick up the game for the OG Xbox. Time to play and watch this again lol. Great job Minimme!
Love mafia one but mafia 2 was just OK and mafia 3 i didn`t play it. waiting for it to go on sale with all the DLC.
Good plan, Mafia 3 is bad. And yeah I didn't like 2 as much either, seems the first remains unmatched
Tbh Mafia 3 is okay now when The problems have mostly been fixed by patches.
Just bought Mafia 3 today. 10 bucks without dlc
Well... Look out for the remake!
I'm pretty sure you could keep visiting the gun seller you meet in one mission, Yellow Pete or something like that, not Salieri's portly Italian gunsmith but a skinnier old fella with a back alley store, remember? Unless the years are deceiving me, I'm pretty sure he's where you get all your grenades and molotovs. They're def rare drops and/or well hidden in the missions but I believe they were always for sale in any open world portion after the mission where you first meet Yellow Pete or whoever. Unless my memories of Free Ride and the main game are just blurring together, I mean I was like 14.
Btw, I loved this game so much as a kid that I infected a friend of mine with my enthusiasm, and together we made a hugely ambitious (for our 14 year old selves) mod designed to spice up the disappointing Free Ride (my whole time thru the game I had assumed Free Ride Extreme would have more than it did). It was called the City of Lost Dreams mod, and PC Gamer actually put it on one of their discs one month, which was awesome. We added stuff like randomized assassinations, street boxing and racing you could either participate in or spectate and bet on, you could call taxis by whistling and pick from a long list of landmarks or addresses as destinations with a makeshift menu system, you could save at phone booths, added a bunch of enterable buildings both from the missions and also from modelers and more advanced coders who over time joined us and made us a little team. Also, various gangs in different regions, for ambient gangfights at the edges of territories, or, say, like, Hoboken was outright hostile in some parts. Was pretty cool, really, getting that whole team together, I still wonder what happened to some of those folks. I tried once to find the mod fairly recently though and all I could find was some incomplete earlier version, which was too bad. Not that it was ever complete, but I couldn't find the most recent version.
Enjoyed the video btw, gotta agree too - what makes it fun is the simulation aspect, the unnecessary level of detail, that's all what did it for me. The whole mod we did was an attempt to preserve that illusion into the lackluster Free Ride mode, based on our mutual disappointment with it.
@@MrDoctorColossus wow that's amazing. I can't remember anyone who could do such advanced stuff at age 14.
this remains one of the most immersive games i have ever played... such fond memories... The music was amazing and the story was even better... Wish I could play this for the first time again.
Oh man , 10:40 your're playing the San Francisco at day Song from Driver 1 XD in the background. Makes me happy, hearing it in some random game review!
Basically the only Mafia review on CZcams I saw and agree with.
I was very young when Mafia came out, but I played it exclusively for months. Definitely my favourite game of all time. I wish they would remaster it
Great review, loved playing Mafia back in the day and the game still looks amazing!
I never thought of the taxi mission like that but knowing that now it's brilliant.
I played this game in 2003 with a Amd athlon single core, 256mb of ram and 64mb ATI video card. I was amazed by it's graphics and complexity.
A story about my Mafia 1 gameplay:
I played the game for the first time a couple of years ago (2016 maybe). What made me interested in this game was the 1930-1940's feel. I really wanted to experience that so I started to play this.
So when I had completed around 70-80% of the storyline my elder brother came from college. He said he wanted to play a game with better animation so we started Mafia 2, what could go wrong? 🤷♂️
So by now I was totally invested in Tommy Angelo (because well, the story and character development is awesome) when I started playing Mafia 2.
So here comes a mission in Mafia 2 "Stairway to Heaven".
I drive to the destination, we see an old man watering his garden. Then suddenly Vito said, "Mr. Angelo, Mr Salieri sends his regards".
I fucking cried at that moment, I was still playing Tommy in Mafia 1 and was still attached to him. I hadn't even got my closure yet. And Vito fucking killed him.
I immediately closed the game and sat on my chair frozen stiff.
I had just killed myself.
lol that's funny
I find it somewhat hilarious that the one critic expected a game from 2002 to have a cover mechanic. While they did exist in rare examples, it wouldn't become popular until closer to 2006, when Gears of War was released and the cover mechanic was 'revolutionary'. Source: I'm old.
Such a great review. You get the feelling that you belong to Salieri's familiy. Like they can not do without you. Thats the strongest thing about this game. Incredible Immersion that you get, getting a sense of how it was back in the 30s :) 10/10 for me
Played this in 2003 in high school on a geforce 4 ti. Didn't have any problem with the slow cars but when I had to drive that racing car through the city in the middle of the night, it was spectacular! It's significantly faster than any other car of the game!
Was true in RL too GP cars were hitting over 200mph in the 30s utter insanity compared to the best road cars at the time.
@robuk1981 Those were the Mercedes-Benz and Auto Union GP racers in the second half of the 30s (the original "silver arrows"), the cars featured in this game aren't quiet as fast as those were, altho it's still generally true that the sheer power output and power/weight ratio difference between racecars and public road-going vehicles was a lot more significant back in those days.
The Carrozella!
@PartiZAn18 a.k.a. Bugatti Type 53 in real life ;)
I played this on 630MHz celeron with TNT Riva 2 with about 15 FPS, but still it was mind blowing to me at the time
Mafia 1 was the best.
Mafia 2 was very good aswell.
But Mafia 3. Omg. No comment tbh...
Over the years, now and again a very specific tune will pop into my head. I'll hum it a few times, and then it's gone until the next time.
I haven't been able to figure out what it is, or where I heard it.
Watched this video.
I'll be damned if the reoccurring tune isn't the Mafia theme.
I bought the game back when it came out, played it, loved it. Then I sold it with some other games.
Apparently, it had a deeper impact on me than I could've realized.
This game is my childhood I even remember playing demo where you were just driving…I was so stunned when my friend bought the full game…he was laughing at me because I was watching it with my mouth opened :D…as a Czech person I am so proud of the developers…always when I hear the soundtrack my heart jumps a little because it’s so beautiful. I’ve played mafia with Czech dabbing so I also had major crush on Tommy :D because of his voice. I wish I could get back in those time the nostalgia is hitting me hard. Nothing but love to this game…thank you for the lovely video even though I’m reacting after 5 years :D
I played it only few years ago and couldn't believe how good it was for it's age
that title theme never fails to hype me
It is one of the best video game theme songs of all time it deserves to be in the big gangster movie
Amazing analysis and I wholeheartedly agree. Mafia was one of my favorite games growing up. No mention of Freeride Extreme feels like a missed opportunity though. Certainly, a much better way to spend time after you've finished the game than the Mafia 2 DLC.
This video basically explained to myself why I love this game so much and have since it came out. Thanks for that. And good point on the tone in GTA IV being all over the place.
I don't really like the 20s or 30s but I always wanted to play this game. Time to rerelease it on ps4!
I want a remake
@@a.g6399 look at that, it's actually happening.
A nice feature the game has is that you can turn the engine off.
The 1930's atmosphere is extreme.
I remember actually riding in a car from the 30s (a ford model a if memory is correct) and it was plenty fun even if it was slow as hell but I guess it's hard to replicate the feeling of being outdoors in a mostly open car on a spring day with the wind in your face and a kind old man to tell you about his time in Vietnam
there's a way to cheese out the race by just driving through this closed shortcut. or you can make it a bit easier by rebinding the driving keys to the secondary column as that will make the wheels turn instantly instead of turning slowly
I lost count on how many times i completed it. I replay it probably every year, even after the remake came out. The remake isn't bad as a standalone game but it's not good as a remake - it doesn't capture the atmosphere I love in this game.
im in polar opposite side of this whole thing, I don't care about story of Mafia one bit, it serves as window dressing for the gameplay, I used to play free-roam mode for hours when I was younger.
wow that menu music hits me like a bomb when that happens you know a game left a big mark on you i loved this game and have started playing again i love the driving the engine sound everything i used to use a steering wheel and pedals and do my own gears i still do my own gears really love it honestly one of my fondest game memory's
You summed up everything that makes this game great. Love it.
I played mafia on release and I still play it through today. Fantastic game that’s far more realistic than any other free world game of its time, I only wish this carried on through the later titles. I loved the clutch manual setting and the damage in the vehicles
"I played mafia on release and I still play it through today." You definitely have a good taste. ;)
I'm getting "the racing mission" flashbacks
they should make a movie out of it or make remaster version. story was phenomenal. when I hear the theme music, I want to play it again. I played mafia II only because of the greatness of mafia 1. it was OK but storyline was not good as should be.
Loved that you put some Driver 1 OST in there
Negative critics target the game's realistic features. Now that is what I call childish.
Mafia 1 and 2 are absolutely the greatest games of all time for people who like history, storytelling, vintage cars and US culture.
Mafia 1 is a masterpiece yes. But 2 was disappointing. It's like it tried to recreate Mafia 1 but it was boring.
Rainhands22 how so??
@@bunnell6335 it had 0 replay value, the combat was distinctly average, story wasn't close to the first, the map was small and uninteresting. I didn't like it much, most people only praise it because console players never enjoyed Mafia 1.
@@Rainhands22 I replayed Mafia 2 more times than first part. There is lost potential in that game so it could be total masterpiece, but still, for people interested in time, genre and style, it's a great game.
Mafia III: Realistic graphics
Mafia: Realistic
I remember being irritated at getting stuck at the very first level of the game but i thought that maybe i should give it mire tries and then i totally fell in love with this game
Story and the way it is told (big part of that is immersion) is the most important aspect of any game. If I invest several hours into something; I want that experience to be memorable. Mafia does that better than any game I have ever played. That title sound track always gives me chills too.
I hope that they recreate this game in a HD game package.
Need a remake of this game so bad. It was a masterpiece back in the day, assuming you had a good enough pc to play it in all it's glory.
@Angad Menon holy shit I forgot I even wrote this LMAOOOOOO. Thanks for reminding me 😂. Damn I've been waiting a long time for this
@Angad Menon I didn't play Mafia 3 as I wasn't really interested in the time or area settings. I heard it was pretty mediocre but got a lot better after a bunch of updates. I enjoyed Mafia 2, but not as much as the original
@Angad Menon the main thing I didn't like about the first game was the lack of interactivity in the world. Some mini games or some customisation would've gone a long way. Also wasn't a huge fan of the vehicle handling on the faster cars. The story was just incredible though.
@Angad Menon Exactly, adding a little more interactivity, maybe like a not-so-comical San Andreas type deal would send the replay value through the roof. It's been years since I played the original Mafia and I can't wait to dive back into it
@Angad Menon honestly I wasn't even aware there was gonna be a gameplay reveal until you mentioned it. PC games haven't made any announcements of any publishers pulling out from what I can see. Can't wait to watch the stream
I can't be the only one who still plays this..
Greatest game I ever played. Still remember that first time I heard that music, pure chills down my spine.