Santander02
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I never played Mafia 1, just played Mafia 2 because it was on sale on Steam. All I kept thinking was that the game had so much going for it, but let so much go to waste. It looked great, the environment was excellent and it at least tried to put you there.
But... there was nothing else to do. I actually ran across town in that game, a 30 minute exercise that just had me powering off out of boredom. You can shoot people, and the gas stations were full service with lots of nice touches, but nothing matters. You don't run out of gas when all you do is drive 5 miles in game between missions. There is no reason to go anywhere else, anyhow.
The driving in that game was going from an intro cut-scene to the next cut-scene, then to a gun battle. Fuck, they had all the nuance with no actual delivery. I thought the story itself was good, but after a guy single-handedly murders 2,000 people, you'd think he would get a little more respect in the end. I mean, he's an unstoppable murder machine.
The game felt like they ran out of money, or the people they assigned to real-world events, sidequests, and interaction didn't get paid or didn't do their work.Also, it would have been a nice touch if you could have avoided prison through a different outcome in the Green Stamp quest. When you get tapped like that, it would have added rplay-ability if some random quest was key to some future missions. But no. Also, you can print money by stealing cars next to the car crusher and getting paid. Boring and obvious.
If you managed to slog trough Mafia 2, then you owe it to yourself to play the first now, heh, start with the half baked sequels and finish with the one that's actually a great seems to be a pleasant way to play trough a game series, at least you won't end with a bad taste of mouth...