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I know, it's not entirely RPG related... Only G related. Which makes it a little indirectly RPG related, right <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />
So, Mafia -- Anyone played the full game? I've played the demo recently and it certainly has some interesting aspects. What I didn't like was the unabality to save whenever you want (or is that demo-only?), especially because a mission easily fails when your not-so-bright fellow-wise-guys get shot <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ouch.gif" alt="" />
Opinions? Do the positive aspects of the full game compensate for this irritating downfall? Better wait for a budget-price version? Forget about it?
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As a fan of movies like "The Godfather" and "Once upon a Time in America", I really loved this game. It really drew you in to the period. The city was fictional but the style of cars and city really caught me, the music was fantastic also . I think I like Grand Theft Auto 3 better, but Mafia is still a great game. Violent as hell, but I guess thats in theme. Well worth it to solve. RPG's are better, but as action games go, this is as close as it comes to playing a movie.
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The only game who features Mandrake's father <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />.
It's GTA in the 1930's with great physics and storyline but a BIT less freedom. See if you can find a demo.
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Indeed like GTA3 but more mission driven, but very good and interesting missions. In some of them you think you almost completed the mission but then something happens, and you realise you still have a long way to go. The mission where you have to race was really hard to me, but after a 20 times i finally beat it. And i'm sorry to say that it isn't possible in to save whereever you want even not in the full game. But the game is still worth it.
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See if you can find a demo. Reread my first post and guess three times <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> I guess I'll go for it then <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> Well, one day <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />
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im not huge on 1st person shooters. i usally get sick of them after i play a couple times because there too repetitive. Mafia was differant thought. every level was so differant from the last. the story was great as well. it really seemed like you were in an old skool gangster movie. i couldnt wait to find out how it ended which was really cool as well. i must say, it stole a month of my life. i absolutly loved it therefor i recommend it. i give it 5 stars. $14 bucks here http://half.ebay.com/cat/buy/prod.cgi?cpid=1120306463&domain_id=2266&meta_id=5
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As a fan of movies like "The Godfather" and "Once upon a Time in America" Yoh mandrake my man ![[Linked Image]](http://www.click-smilies.de/sammlung0903/grinser/grinning-smiley-043.gif) i got "Once upon a time in America" DVD for Christmas, excellent movie, i'm a great fan of Segio Leone films as you know,also got "once upon a time in the West" at christmas . ![[Linked Image]](http://www.click-smilies.de/sammlung0903/grinser/grinning-smiley-048.gif) <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wave.gif" alt="" />
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Mafia was differant thought. every level was so differant from the last. the story was great as well. Two things I love to hear <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
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I din't know the game Mafia, but I have seen Grand Theft Auto. The thing I really don't like about games with this type of theme is that there were people like thaat in the neighborhood I grew up in, and they are not the kind of folks you want to glamorize or copy. They are cruel and unpleasant and will hurt and degrade others without a second thought.
The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer? ~Jeremy Bentham
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How long has this game been out? I was in the Fanc recently but I didn't see it... (I'd have asked but I didn't see any man-in-green and I was a litle in a hurry already <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" /> ) It has been released yet, has it? Pc-version, in Belgium? Anyone? Can't seem to find any release dates for this game anywhere either <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ouch.gif" alt="" />
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I din't know the game Mafia, but I have seen Grand Theft Auto. The thing I really don't like about games with this type of theme is that there were people like thaat in the neighborhood I grew up in, and they are not the kind of folks you want to glamorize or copy. They are cruel and unpleasant and will hurt and degrade others without a second thought. Unlike GTA, Mafia doesn't glamourize the gangsters, Alex. I agree with you: people think being a "Gangsta" is cool whereas they're not someone you'd like to meet... I don't like GTA, btw. Vice City was good because of the music <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/up.gif" alt="" /> but monotonous and the characters (except for Lance Vance) were awfully borring. Mafia was out for a year or two... I am not sure. It's by the makers of Hidden and Dangerous: Illusion Softworks (not to mix with D.I.C.E. of Battlefield 1942 [Digital Illusion Computer Entertainment]).
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@Spick: Ahhh, Sergio Leone, I wish he hadnt have died, Im sure he had a lot more great films in him <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
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How long has this game been out? I was in the Fanc recently but I didn't see it... (I'd have asked but I didn't see any man-in-green and I was a litle in a hurry already <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" /> ) It has been released yet, has it? Pc-version, in Belgium? Anyone? Can't seem to find any release dates for this game anywhere either <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ouch.gif" alt="" />
i beat it almost a year ago myself. il see if i can find some dates......
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Wow, I had no idea it's been out for so long... Anyways, *already* got it. Went back to the Fnac the same day and used my persuasive methods to get a copy they had hidden in the far back of the storage room <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />
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So you can start playing Mafia. Good luck cause you will need it for some missions.
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Yeah some of em are pretty tough, although I expected worse. So far anyway... Seems like the demo-mission is one of the toughest. The race took me some time too, but boy was it fun <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> "The Priest" and "The Whore" took me some time as well... "Visiting Rich People" was great too - we both got out unharmed and unnoticed, how 'bout that! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> I think I'm past half way through it already - real pity. Guess that's what happens if you don't have many plans for the weekend <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />
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I found the mission where you have to place a bomb and kill a woman in a hotel very amusing. First you get the cops after you, and then you jump in a church thinking it is done, seems that someone you killed from another mafia is getting buried, so there are a lot of people who want to see you dead. Man, was I happy when I finished that mission.
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i had lots of fun when i robed the bank. steeling cars was really fun too.
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