![]() A Classic difficulty mode mimics reality in that bullets actually hurt you a lot, and there aren’t miraculous health kits on the floors of factories. Police actually pay attention to traffic laws (these features can be disabled). Your car burns gas and needs to be refueled. What works for Mafia is the level of authenticity you feel as you progress through the story. (And it's free on Steam right now.)įrom cabbie to capo in one glorious game. What we got instead was one of the best cinematic stories in the genre, couched in a game focused on authenticity over madcap action. (The monumental Grand Theft Auto III had been out for nearly a year, and Vice City would hit stores a month later.) Gamers were hooked on open-world criminal hijinks, so it seemed a mobster-themed franchise would deliver more of the same. Mafia from Illusion Softworks was released in 2002 during the height of Grand Theft Auto fever. Is there a game that goes beyond these one-dimensional portrayals? Do any games show the same reverence as our movies? Or are they all just trying to be a couple o’ wise guys? There are plenty of games with cigar-chomping boss types to thwart and an army of fedora-wearing thugs to beat up. While cinema elevates organized crime into Oscar bait, video games often make mobsters into punching bags and bullet sponges. We love gangsters in our movies, from black and white noir thrillers to Scorcese blockbusters and even Star Trek theme planets.
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