Mafia: Definitive Edition

Definitive Edition is a great remake. Hangar 13 respects the work of Illusions Softworks and expands it to improve every aspect of the game.

We especially like how well the developers preserve the spirit of the original, while at the same time extending the story in a meaningful way.

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The remake stays true to the original, but storytelling and mechanics feel terribly outdated, giving you the impression that this is more of a remaster not reaching its full potential.

I don’t know how good the classic Mafia was, but this game gave me almost the same feeling I had in my childhood watching Once Upon a Time in America or Scarface. Anyway, if you like the aesthetics of the 1930s, you’ll definitely enjoy the atmosphere this game brings you into. Totally recommended.

Whenever i play a game i always think to myself beforehand roughly the score i'm going to give said game, while playing Mafia: Definitive Edition i said to myself that i would give it an 8, up until about halfway of the game. Theres a few reasons why the imagined 8 simply wasn't sustained, firstly i think some missions design was poor at best. The mission where you're at the abandoned prison was just straight up garbage. It was okay up until you needed to escape, countless cops spawning everywhere while you have the slowest car imaginable, 2-3 seconds in the cops range and you get a flat tire resulting more often than not in dying and needing to restart, just to get swarmed by the very same cops which is most likely going to pop your tires yet again. Corny as it sounds i'm an experienced gamer, and i played on normal difficulty, yet i had immense trouble with this specific mission. The literal next mission after that one is another complete garbage one, the one where you locate the "cigars". You need to escape in the absolute worst truck i've ever controlled, which can't accelerate properly and sometimes just stops going. Feels like you're driving on ice, and you need to leave a certain area, only problem is that there are roadblocks at literally every single exit point which led me to again, have immense trouble. The good thing about this game is that it's extremely immersive, the music, the old cars and buildings are really something else. The graphics are really on point too and some of the best graphics i've ever seen in video games. The story was also very nice, great characters and a great ending. Realistically i would give this a 7.5 because of said faults. But seeing that's not possible it's going to be a 7.

i am not going to say it's a bad game, graphics are decent, gameplay are okay, but the fact that the missions and gun fights are repetitive and the body fights repetitive are anoying, not bad overal

A real hot mess, the game lags, cut scenes freeze and screen goes black all the time. Real hard to follow the story, the game mechanics itself feel like Mafia III. Played on a GTX 1660TI and AMD R7.

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