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Overall Critic Score:3.6225
Mafia Critic Reviews
The PC version is the best you can get. If you have a PC that meets the requirements below, you’ll have a much better time than you would with either console version. Furthermore, GameStop.com is selling this game for a mere $10, several times less...read the complete Mafia review at PGNx Media
Mafia takes the idea of the bustling city to a new, incredibly ambitious level with an awe-inspiring sense of detail and forethought. Without a doubt, the game is gorgeous....read the complete Mafia review at Game Revolution
Yet Mafia oozes class, polish, and style like no other game so far this year. To not "experience" Mafia is a far greater crime than any in the Salieri family ever committed....read the complete Mafia review at Four Fat Chicks
You start out honest enough, a taxi driver trying to scrape together a living in the tough times that were the 1930's depression. Before you become a crim, you get to drive people all across town in your rather pedestrian little motor car. It is here...read the complete Mafia review at Gameplanet
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Despite first appearances, Mafia isn't as open-ended as Grand Theft Auto III - the games structure is far more linear, so (while you can still drive about aimlessly maiming people and causing havoc) the game isn't designed with senseless violence in mind....read the complete Mafia review at Game Power AU
An onscreen map shows you where you are and where you need to go....read the complete Mafia review at GameSpot
When you were little, did you ever imagine that you and your friends were in a gang, fighting the cops as you had seen on various movies? Well your dreams can come true, as players will be put in the shoes of a young man just starting off on the life...read the complete Mafia review at GameZone
A town, two gangs, crooked cops, shooting, chasing, and stealing... now that's some good clean fun....read the complete Mafia review at IGN
The aforementioned Grand Theft Auto's major selling point was the non-linearity of the gameplay. Whilst this allowed the player to do whatever they wished, it sadly detracted from the atmosphere of the game in the games before Vice City, leaving you...read the complete Mafia review at DarkZero
Set in the 1930's, Mafia is the story of Tommy Angelo, a regular cab driver who gets involved in the mob through uncontrollable circumstances. He happens to be in the area when a shooting goes down and two members of the Salieri family jump in and demand...read the complete Mafia review at GameSpy
Organized crime has inspired some of the best films and television shows ever made — the Godfather trilogy, GoodFellas, and The Sopranos, to name just a few. We’ve been waiting patiently for eons to play a PC game that really took full advantage of...read the complete Mafia review at PC Gamer
In Mafia you do a lot of shooting and driving, and you can perform many of the same actions that are available in Grand Theft Auto III. Well, Grand Theft Auto III and Mafia are quite comparable (the bright lights/big city idea, cars, pedestrians,...read the complete Mafia review at Gameguru Mania
What provides Mafia that narrative edge is that the game revolves around a flashback of Tommy's life as told to an Irish cop in exchange for protection. For once you're given control of a proper character; Tommy is someone who often grieves at the...read the complete Mafia review at Amped IGO
To start with, the game handles gunfights extremely well, just about as good as any shooter. The battles are intense, because the AI tends to be aggressive, are reasonably accurate, and most weapons are devastating enough to take you out fast. Up close...read the complete Mafia review at Electric Playground
In truly cinematic fashion, Mafia opens with your character sitting in a café, relating the dirty details of his mob career to a hard-nosed police detective; however, as is the case with every good mob tale, the story truly begins at the very bottom of...read the complete Mafia review at Entertainment Depot
Mafia delivers a very strong storyline, I found it extremely compelling, with none of Max Payne's cheeseyness. You play Tommy Angelo, a 1930's taxi driver in Lost Heaven city…a place divided by two warring Mafia families. I won't spoil anything by...read the complete Mafia review at Gaming Illustrated
The quintessential difference between other gangster games and this one is the fact that the story gives reason for the action to exist. It doesn't work the other way around....read the complete Mafia review at Game Over Online
At its heart, Mafia is an application of the Grand Theft Auto 3 formula to the gangster era of the 1930's. You do a lot of shooting and driving, and you can perform many of the same actions that are available in GTA3. The developers say on the Mafia...read the complete Mafia review at UnderGroundOnline
The game engine Mafia uses is custom-made by Illusion Softworks, and it's pretty damn good. The detail, both indoors and out, is excellent, and the frame rates aren't too bad. They're not particularly great either, though, so unless you have a real...read the complete Mafia review at AtomicGamer
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