Get your tommy guns out of the closet

**Forward Observer** · 08-26-2007, 18:15

Someone posted recently about the gangster game Mafia.

I was a big fan of the original PC version when it came out and it is still on my PC now as one of my sand box games. If you never played it, it is similar to the Grand Theft Auto games, but set in the 1930's gangster era---Tommy guns and women of ill-repute, but no drugs.

Most of the game plays like a 3rd person shooter, but you get to drive period vehicles, ride trolleys, and trains, and interact to some degree with the enormous environment. Even though it came out in 2002,---when one is driving down the street amid traffic with streetcars, overhead tains, and pedestrians it is still pretty visually impressive.

Here are a couple of shot I took from the orginal game; you can get in any of those cars and drive them if you have gas

My post is actually about a new sequel that I just read about aptly named Mafia 2. It is by the same group, and this time it is going to move into the 1940's and 50's.

Here is a link to a short preview and 5 screen shots.

http://www.computerandvideogames.com....php?id=170565

Check those screen shots out and particularly the second one inside a bar. Damn, just another game that is going to force me to buy a new rig.

Cheers

**Husar** · 08-26-2007, 18:43

Don't forget to watch the GC trailer and visit the official website, which seems a bit empty though.

Edit: I just had a deja-vu, apparently you're also active on SimHQ.

**Forward Observer** · 08-26-2007, 19:38

Originally Posted by Husar

Don't forget to watch the GC trailer and visit the official website, which seems a bit empty though.

Edit: I just had a deja-vu, apparently you're also active on SimHQ.

Yeah, you caught me--I am too lazy to re-compose the entire post--lol

That clip is amazing--if it is in game graphics. It seems like every year we are moving closer to movie grade CGA graphics in games. I can only guess what it will look like in 5 or 10 years.

Maybe the Startrek holodeck is not that far away after all.

Cheers

**Crazed Rabbit** · 08-27-2007, 01:23

Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet.

Now I just need a new computer...

CR

**Geoffrey S** · 08-27-2007, 11:01

That trailer is beautiful. I also still play bits of Mafia again and again. I just love driving around the city, not necessarily doing anything but just looking at all the loving details the developers included, particularly out in the countryside. It's a classic game without a doubt, with one of the best plots with the most memorable characters I've ever seen (not just in games).

Only thing that does bug me. My rig is now a fair bit better than before, but I still get a lot of popup and fog when driving over bridges in the centre. Anyone know of mods which alleviate that issue? Otherwise, it's a game that's aged very well.

**Bob the Insane** · 08-28-2007, 02:11

Yeah, I was a real fan of Mafia too... Great game and almost more importantly a really great story at the center of it...

Some mad missions, remember the moonshine running?

Great to hear about Mafia 2...

**Forward Observer** · 08-29-2007, 02:47

Originally Posted by Geoffrey S

That trailer is beautiful. I also still play bits of Mafia again and again. I just love driving around the city, not necessarily doing anything but just looking at all the loving details the developers included, particularly out in the countryside. It's a classic game without a doubt, with one of the best plots with the most memorable characters I've ever seen (not just in games).

Only thing that does bug me. My rig is now a fair bit better than before, but I still get a lot of popup and fog when driving over bridges in the centre. Anyone know of mods which alleviate that issue? Otherwise, it's a game that's aged very well.

There are a bunch of mod sites on the net and I found one sometime back that listed a mod to extend the draw distance. The problem was that in addtion to the mod files, you had to download a couple of editors to open the encrypted files and mod some of the files yourself. It was a bit more complex than I had expected and I ended up breaking the game. I eventually had to delete it from my harddrive and re-load it all over again.

It didn't seem worth it after all that.

Cheers

**Furunculus** · 05-06-2009, 23:42

Mafia was awesome, i very much look forward to the sequel provided its made by the same developer.

**Husar** · 05-07-2009, 09:03

Originally Posted by Furunculus

Mafia was awesome, i very much look forward to the sequel provided its made by the same developer.

It is, but unfortunately they made it very...modern..., like a modern shooter that is, dumbed down driving, health regeneration etc. and I'm not sure that's a good thing, I'm getting a bad feeling about this.

**Mailman653** · 05-08-2009, 15:26

A day in the life Scroll half way down.

**Mailman653** · 06-04-2009, 02:31

Mafia II at E3

**Crazed Rabbit** · 06-04-2009, 05:56

They change magazines after firing a single bullet - I guess they downgraded realism from Mafia I, where if you reloaded, you lost all the bullets currently in the magazine.

CR