Mafia
Mafia is a 3D action crime epic set in the seedy underworld of the 1930's. Rise from the lowly but well-dressed Footsoldier, to an envied and feared Made Man in an era of mob hits, car chases, and bootlegging…
Mafia is an adventure developed by Illusion Softworks, released 29 August 2002 on PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows). It currently starts at $4.94 at Steam. The main story takes about 20.8 hrs to finish.
What Mafia is
Mafia is an adventure game developed by Illusion Softworks and released in 2002. It was published by Gathering of Developers. It is available on PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on LS3D.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Mafia is set in the 1930s, between the fall of 1930 through to the end of 1938, during the later part of Prohibition, which ended in 1933. The game is set in the fictional American city of Lost Heaven (loosely based on New York City, Philadelphia and Chicago of the same time period). The player takes the role of taxi driver Thomas "Tommy" Angelo, who, while trying to make a living on the streets of Lost Heaven as a taxi cab driver, unexpectedly and unwillingly becomes involved in organized crime as a driver and enforcer for the Salieri crime family, led by Don Ennio Salieri.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, open world and stealth. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 43 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Mafia holds a critic score of 63 out of 100. That places it above 22% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2002 averaged 68, so it scored 5 points below the year average. Players rate it 74, 11 points higher than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 20.8 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 30 hrs, roughly 1.4 times the length of the critical path. At its current cheapest price of $4.94, that works out to about $0.24 per hour of the main story, or $0.16 per hour if you finish everything.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core-i5 2550K 3.4GHz / AMD FX 8120 3.1 GHz, 6 GB RAM and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 / AMD Radeon HD 7870. An 6GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 50GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $4.94 at Steam, 67% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Mafia launched on 29 August 2002, within three weeks of Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven, Battlefield 1942, Kingdom Hearts and Syberia. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven, Battlefield 1942, Kingdom Hearts, Syberia.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Mafia yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
All media
Characters
All 14
Dlc
Remakes
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