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Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven was my first pc game. Then I was 11 years old and only games which I knew were Clash of Clans and Clash Royal. But year ago I had bad marks in school in my parents' opinion and they took my phone. Then a year after I saw how my grandpa was playing Mafia and I wanted to try! He launched me the start of 17th chapter and then I called this game "A red car". At first time I just rode and I didn't care about that compass in the top left corner and I just got the pleasure from gameplay! And after a while I noted the compass and then I tried to get to my target. I was young in video games and I hadn't enough experience to understand how to go through the river. I don't remember what was after I'd got to the prison, but I remember I was difficult to kill those guys in it. I remember how I launched random missions after that cuz my grandpa had walked through Mafia already. Then I decided to create my own profile and walk it through myself and I met a problem, that I didn't know how to set controls. I know it sounds stupid but it was so. My grandpa had strange controls and thus I turned steering wheel via mouse buttons! And then I begun to walk through Mafia with ready saves on his profile. I remember how I skipped some missions and I even skipped that race which I tried to walk through and by the way that was version without the difficulty level choice! That's why I was angry a lot. And my grandma saw this that's why she asked grandpa to uninstall Mafia because of what I lost my connection with pc gaming for the next 2 years. Then, in 2021st, when I was in 6th class, I saw how my grandpa was playing Mafia again and in this time I could setup controls in the game and in this time I couldn't skip anything. And despite the same old version without the difficulty choice in the race I managed to walk through that goddamn race! And as far as I remember I did it on the first attempt! I can't be sure in my memories, but I remember how I was sitting in front of screen with credits and I even recorded that moment on my old iPhone 5S! I still remember that evening and that was cool! After that I wanted Mafia on my laptop and I didn't know about Steam and that the games can be not free and I used torrent. Now you can make sure I have Mafia on my Steam library by reading this review! But then I didn't know about Steam and played the torrent version. What after? After I spent all my summer with Mafia! And that was really cool, but! In the end of that summer I became a Geometry Dash's fan. I played it on my phone and one my fried told me about Steam and that I could buy GD there. Then I made my account and after that I bought Mafia when I noticed it in Steam! So, I think it's the end of my acquaintance with Mafia and here I can get down to the game!
PLOT (SPOILERS)
Even though Mafia looks like a driving simulator, the main thing here's the plot. I'm not a perfect screenwriter and I'm not at all, but I can tell something about it. If you wanna walk through the game yourself, what are you waiting for? Go, or just skip this part! Well, we have a protagonist Tomas Angelo, usual taxi driver, who met two Salieri gangsters one night and it changed his life. For the whole game Tom meets difficult choices, when he can't kill a woman, for example. It shows us, that Tommy isn't another gangster without feelings. And these "feeligs" brought Tomas to the end what we got. This game has got the morality and it's not just a dramatic story! That's why it's easier to connect Tommy with oneself! I don't wanna retell the whole plot cuz I don't see any point doing this.
GAMEPLAY
However, we play games not only for the plot... Yeah? Is it right? It's a little different case with Mafia. I think most of the fans who have played other games can acknowledge that gameplay isn't the best here. Cars are very slow and it's logical, but for the new players it won't be a big pleasure. The same case with the shooter-part of Mafia. It's terrible compare with fps-games, but compare with GTA 3 and Vice City it's not so worse. Sometimes you shoot an enemy, but the bullets take a wall or another one obstacle! Therefore I can't say gameplay is good. Most of the players will stop because of gameplay, but you can get used to and if you do, you can even get pleasure!
MISSIONS
It's one of the most important parts in such games and... Mafia alost hasn't the problems with it. The mission can suggest you a puzzle sometimes. Sometimes Daniel Vavra will be kidding you with his traps, and... I'd like to compare Mafia with Dark Souls 1. Sometimes you wanna stop it, for the first walkthrough. But all the next times it won't be so hard for you. Anyway, the mission have an interesting design and Daniel Vavra is really cool man! I respect him despite his strange game design decisions. But, actually, I respect him FOR his strange game design decisions.
ATMOSPHERE
And here we go! This is the second game part which Mafia's fans love it for! The first's plot. So, Mafia got no problems with it! Music makes amazing vibe and I love it like other fans do! City looks great and by the way, there's a certain song plays in every neighbourhood! And the main theme... Every fan cries hearing it!
CARS
I haven't played a lotta games, but car park in Mafia is quite big! Here we have certain makes of cars with their models-list. It's really interesting and I like how Illusion Softworks made it!
WEAPONS
Sure, you won't find such big diversity of weapons in Mafia like in GTA V, but after this game Tompson became my favorite weapon and it actually enrages that Vincenzo gives Sam and Paul Tompsons, and we get nothing, but Colt 1911 or Sawed-off Shotgun! Anyways, I like the local weapon list! It includes sniper rifles and few pistols! Even few shotguns!
FREERIDE EXTREME
Well, what were the developers smoking by coming up with it? These're 19 mission which ain't related to the main plot and you get a bonus car, which is very fast and sometimes looks weird. It's unlocked after the main plot and there you won't meet any cops. It's just funny and that's all!
CONCLUSION
I've walked Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven 13 times and I'm not sorry! I love it and I won't forget what it taught me! I recommend you to play it for its plot's sake, but if it brings the pain to you, watch a walkthrough on YouTube! It deserves you to know its story! I haven't played Mafia:Definitive Edition, but I've watched walkthrough and I can say, the the moral of the plot is better in the original game!
Thanks for readin' and call 7 birds!