"Remember: money, work and even friends are all temporary. But family... family is forever."(c) Thomas Angelo. "Epilogue".This is what an example of a very, very good remake means. I wasn’t even embarrassed by this shooting, driving a car, animations like in the three. Here they completely preserved the atmosphere of the original Mafia of 2002, and what’s more, they added various scenes or slightly reworked missions that in the original were frankly even infuriating with their excessive hardcoreness. Sometimes the optimization of the game fails in terms of loading textures (although my game uses 7-8 GB of RAM out of 16 on ultra), in my memory there was one crash, and everything seems to be negative in this regard. Otherwise, it’s a stable 70-80 frames with drops of up to 60 on the RTX 3050. The game shows itself perfectly in terms of revealing the plot, nothing superfluous like in the original. I definitely recommend it to fans of the original, I’m sure you’ll like it :)
Mafia: Definitive Edition is a remake of mixed flavours. Some elements are just as they
used to be, and it's great. Some elements are just as they used to be, and it's awful.
Mixture of aged mechanics and amazing graphics, new voices, great old story and
some added, yet bad storylines, make it not such a perfect remake. But it sure is
worth your time, whether you are a fan of the original or not. The moral of the story
survived in all its glory, just be sure to focus your attention to the details where Mafia
used to and still shines the most.
If you're a fan of the original Mafia then you should give this remake a try. It captures the spirit of the game while also making it a thoroughly modern shooter. If you never played Mafia, then this doesn't feel like a nostalgia project but a new game. The split structure of the story mode and open world may be unusual when lined up against its current competitors, but if you find yourself lost in large open worlds like Assassin's Creed and are looking for something that has more respect for your time, Mafia may be for you.
Mafia definitive Edition is a good remake. Visually, the game is sublime and the few small additions, especially concerning the driving are appreciable. If this 2020 version suffers from a lot of technical problems and cannot completely hide that the original game is 18 years old, the quality of writing and the mafia atmosphere offer a great moment of immersion in the underworld.
The main difference between the remake and the original game is that the latter was outstanding for its time, while the Definitive Edition is “merely” good. Of course, that doesn’t mean it’s not worth your time. What’s crucial here is the fact that Hangar 13 approached the original’s narrative with proper respect and refrained from changing it too much. Mafia: Definitive Edition might not be remarkable as an open-world action game, but it still has the story worthy of the most revered gangster movies. [12/2020, p.28]
The remake stays true to the original, but storytelling and mechanics feel terribly outdated, giving you the impression that this is more of a remaster not reaching its full potential.
It was good, it just didn't have that feel of the old game. I don't know why. I enjoyed Vice City Definitive Edition more maybe because it just kept that old-school feeling.
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Hangar13 Games Studio ! You should have made a full-fledged freeride in the game, since you introduced it into the main game! Hangar13 are just lazy people who do not respect their product!
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SummaryPart one of the Mafia crime saga - 1930s, Lost Heaven, IL Re-made from the ground up, rise through the ranks of the Mafia during the Prohibition era of organized crime. After a run-in with the mob, cab driver Tommy Angelo is thrust into a deadly underworld. Initially uneasy about falling in with the Salieri crime family, Tommy soon finds...