Mafia: Definitive Edition

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  1. zoodle
    Oct 25, 2020
    9
    A good game, with an interesting story, most of all I liked that the story goes continuously, Chapter by Chapter, no additional tasks(many games I threw because of the fact that I constantly did additional tasks, although maybe this is just my problem).
  2. Edupro21
    Oct 26, 2020
    9
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Um ótimo remake muito fiel ao original,mas poderia ter uma jogabilidade melhor e um mundo aberto mais vivo...… Expand
  3. hector_bcn98
    Nov 14, 2022
    8
    Si te gusta tanto las tramas de mafia a lo Scorsese... este es tu videojuego. Qué disfrute, macho. Si se dejara explorar un mundo abierto tan rico como el de GTA, entraría en la cima del género.
  4. BeatMarki
    Oct 29, 2020
    9
    Love the story, great graphics, but theres a LOT of downsides.

    - No money. - Cant buy or sale. - Cant Manually communicate with peoples. - lack of interactivity. - No animals. - No children NPCs. - No Gunshop, you have to go to Vinny if you're out of bullets. - No Gangshotout. - You cannot replenish your health in free ride. - cant fast travel, or using public transportations such as    Love the story, great graphics, but theres a LOT of downsides.

    - No money.
    - Cant buy or sale.
    - Cant Manually communicate with peoples.
    - lack of interactivity.
    - No animals.
    - No children NPCs.
    - No Gunshop, you have to go to Vinny if you're out of bullets.
    - No Gangshotout.
    - You cannot replenish your health in free ride.
    - cant fast travel, or using public transportations such as taxi, bus, train etc...
    - No real-time day/night, climate changes in freeride.
    - The countryside basically empty, like ghost-town.    … Expand
  5. JonJonPhooey
    Feb 18, 2021
    6
    Hey Hanger 13, why remake a game where you spend most the time driving and not make the driving mechanic airtight?? It is crazy how many times you crash because your tires are literally made of ice
  6. Halil007212
    Mar 23, 2021
    0
    Good remake I love this but I hate Hanger 13 because Mafia 3 so suck İ hateeeee youuuuuu!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  7. LalloHorror
    Dec 25, 2020
    7
    Mafia Definitive Edition is a game I actually liked, even if it is a lot easier and guided compared to the original chapter. I was upset about some little cuts but it didn't affect the experience so much, I can say I enjoyed it and it brought me back to the good old days when I used to play the original as a kid.
    The thing that forced me to remove it from my library is that Mafia    Mafia Definitive Edition is a game I actually liked, even if it is a lot easier and guided compared to the original chapter. I was upset about some little cuts but it didn't affect the experience so much, I can say I enjoyed it and it brought me back to the good old days when I used to play the original as a kid.
    The thing that forced me to remove it from my library is that Mafia Definitive Edition nearly killed my PS4 for good.
    From the day I installed it, the console started getting very slow and freezy and I couldn't figure out what was happening: I thought the PS4 was overheating, I thought the Hard Disk was too filled up, I thought it was a virus and so on. So I rebuilt the database, I deleted games in order to free some space and I even reinstalled the firmware but nothing happened. Two days ago I was checking out my USB pen drive where I put all my saved data and I noticed that Mafia appeared as "Uninstalled app" and it was the only folder to appear this way so I checked out the console as well and found out everything about mafia was corrupted. I don't know if there were problems during the download or what, the fact is that as soon as I deleted Mafia and everything about from the PS4, it started working again as it should work. I repeat, I don't know if the problem was caused by some error during the installation but I hope this is not a problem with the game itself because it is unacceptable.    … Expand
  8. AmaSilamsi
    Nov 14, 2020
    4
    Failed to live up to expectations on the legendary first Mafia series as the Definitive Edition.
    Is this "Definitive"?
    --- Game is highly linear. Story has been reduced to the bottom. Free play has no access to nothing Big cutscenes like a movie Arcade character behavior and shooting No expansion of this edition as for the game of 2020 quality --- The game was quickly assembled    Failed to live up to expectations on the legendary first Mafia series as the Definitive Edition.
    Is this "Definitive"?
    ---
    Game is highly linear.
    Story has been reduced to the bottom.
    Free play has no access to nothing
    Big cutscenes like a movie
    Arcade character behavior and shooting
    No expansion of this edition as for the game of 2020 quality
    ---
    The game was quickly assembled in a fit of bad luck

    My condolences to the entire Mafia series to starting from the 2nd part.    … Expand
  9. PauleRosalio
    Nov 15, 2020
    2
    Why did you make a piece of the simplified version of the game and cut out the story in this final edition?
    Baby shooting and automatic target shooting - are you **** idiots??? What kind of freeride is this? There is nothing there, everything is locked up, no entertainment, except for a small number of missions and Luca Bertone, not a suitable scenario, torn from the storyline. I don't    Why did you make a piece of the simplified version of the game and cut out the story in this final edition?
    Baby shooting and automatic target shooting - are you **** idiots??? What kind of freeride is this? There is nothing there, everything is locked up, no entertainment, except for a small number of missions and Luca Bertone, not a suitable scenario, torn from the storyline. I don't understand how gaming companies today are trying to grab money for every piece of **** that isn't finished.

    2 million copies according to statistics sold for this big money that the company asked for the game! There is NO game quality! And we feed these fat ghouls as always!    … Expand
  10. mscztona80D
    Nov 16, 2020
    3
    Struck by such a careless attitude to the legendary 2002 scenario. This is much less than in the original. Except for a short cut in pieces, in all parts of the ruler there is nothing in the game. This whole city is banned from access to communication. It's a **** 2020 game, I fell off my chair...
  11. ALIreza57
    Dec 6, 2020
    8
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood… Expand
  12. MartinBall
    Nov 16, 2020
    5
    This is a line of shortplot and a meaningless walk FR
    5/10 WTF :(((((((((((((
  13. Maximilinn
    Nov 16, 2020
    4
    Beaucoup trop chere pour un simple jeux avec une histoire qu'on finit en max 9h/11h de jeux sans parler qu'une fois qu'on a finis celui la ont peux rien faire vu que le personnage principal meurt !
    Le jeu gratuit n'a pas de sens, vide et tout est fermé au joueur, les trains, les tramways, les magasins et le système d'économies d'argent sont condamnés dans ce monde.
  14. AliceFoxA
    Nov 18, 2020
    4
    The Mafia series a love gamer, nevermind the most of licking chocolate eye reviews and despite the thing I was really waiting for this game,, I'll say it's a still raw product same as Mafia 2:Definitive Edition, with NO SUBWAY and NO MIKE BRUSKY's MISSIONS, and the final quote will be:
    Guys, you still have much time to earn ALL THE MONEY you wanted on this game, put the content the    The Mafia series a love gamer, nevermind the most of licking chocolate eye reviews and despite the thing I was really waiting for this game,, I'll say it's a still raw product same as Mafia 2:Definitive Edition, with NO SUBWAY and NO MIKE BRUSKY's MISSIONS, and the final quote will be:
    Guys, you still have much time to earn ALL THE MONEY you wanted on this game, put the content the society wants from you and some real sence in Free Ride Mode such as little interesting features we had in original game, turn on subway train and trams, get boat races, make Fight Nights for boxing, clown parades (or Paulies' parades), put some gangsters ont the streets like in Mafia 2, add building purchases or anything else so it won't be pathetic 100 hours of game, that is supposed to be LOVED by all the gaming society.
    P.S. I dunno if you'll read it (but seems you do, according to the thing you made it possible to drive taxi and do races in October patch but I don't get any rewards , any money that I could use to buy a house or a gun...) but if you do I really wish you luck in your real Definition of it and completing so it become a real masterpiece but not the game after which I will more likely play Mafia III once again for fun, because there's more of this world out there...

    The game company H13-2K has sold more than two million copies and will not deign to release updates and improvements to the game, well, this is predictable as a dirty business these days (    … Expand
  15. ale_gila
    Nov 21, 2020
    8
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Mafia “Definitive Edition” is a very good remaster of the first mafia that I’ve played on pc ages ago, the only negative thing that I’ve found is that the story mode is a bit too short!
    As an Italian, the dubbing is great..you can clearly hear the Sicilian accent and the swearing made me laugh a lot XD. Classic difficulty isn’t even that hard, except for a couple of mission, ie when you have to win that race or where you have to save your mate in the farm.
    I rarely platinum a game, but this is worthy!    … Expand
  16. Gamex6
    Nov 22, 2020
    9
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Никогда ещё я не встречал такой прекрасной игры! Графика конечно не столь сногсшибательная для 2020 года, но история здес рассказывается очень круто.… Expand
  17. KamiLL85
    Nov 24, 2020
    5
    10 hours to be glued to the history branch and not one step away!
    But the missions of auto mechanic Burton in a free walk have only one scene and he allows him to find all the cars at once.
    The City there has no grounds for playing and communicating, everything is only visually so that you cannot touch and enter somewhere. City transport movement Not available, but all NPCs are in    10 hours to be glued to the history branch and not one step away!
    But the missions of auto mechanic Burton in a free walk have only one scene and he allows him to find all the cars at once.
    The City there has no grounds for playing and communicating, everything is only visually so that you cannot touch and enter somewhere.
    City transport movement Not available, but all NPCs are in contact with them.
    Didn't think it would be such a fake from the popular 2000 original! ?? XD
    My rating is 5/10 in the hope that the game still needs improvement it it)    … Expand
  18. davidthesloth
    Aug 25, 2021
    5
    Played the original Mafia for the first time and I'm left feeling really flustered and disappointed. While I liked the environment and the story, there's lot more that outweighs the game's few merits.

    The many cons of this game include the atrocious driving and shooting design and utilisation. These controls are clunky, unresponsive and cumbersome to navigate resulting in many    Played the original Mafia for the first time and I'm left feeling really flustered and disappointed. While I liked the environment and the story, there's lot more that outweighs the game's few merits.

    The many cons of this game include the atrocious driving and shooting design and utilisation. These controls are clunky, unresponsive and cumbersome to navigate resulting in many frustrating deaths. The game is also very terribly optimised (even running on a PS5) where there are some sections you spend more time watching the game load rather than playing it. Lifeless, one dimensional characters and terrible AI are very prominent throughout the game. The plot is a generic run-of-the-mill from any mafia/gangster movie that features the predicable "start from nothing, work for a family, become a key figure, there's a rat that betrays the family..." yada yada yada that's very non-engaging however it does include an interesting sublot of loyalty. Voice acting is also awful but not in a so bad it's good, just quite the opposite.

    The infamous Race sequence is god awful and horribly hamfisted and implemented. The appalling driving controls are too unresponsive and frigid to even be considered a challenge as it takes way too many attempts and time to even finish the race let alone in the winning position and quickly wears out and traps the player in a monotonous loop of weariness. Lastly, the Free Ride mode is honestly a joke with little to no incentive to engage with it.

    The one good feature I will dignify is the ability to customise the way you want to play Mafia. You can skip unnecessary drives (easily my favourite), Normal or Simulation (a mode that attempts to imitate real driving) and Police response/aggressiveness. Unfortunately, this game is still, at it's core, a bad boring experience of drive and shoot and drive again.    … Expand
  19. KHANHNAMNG
    Nov 26, 2020
    0
    Amazing gameplay and story. The voice acting and script was so emotional and was much better than the Mafia (2002). But still nothing to do at all in the freemode beside going around town and collecting posters. As a long-time fan, overall it is a great game
  20. thiagosrdg
    Apr 21, 2021
    8
    Bons gráficos e a história é muito legal. Porém é um jogo muito curto e a jogabilidade com o personagem poderia ser melhor. Me diverti jogando mas esperava mais.
  21. jayjayjackob
    Oct 7, 2021
    9
    I love playing this game on Classic difficulty. It reminds me these good old days. I wish every Remaster will be made so good as this one.
    I recommend Ps.
    I give 9 only because there is one thing that deserves a 10:
    It is the Witcher Trilogy.
  22. datguytoxic
    Aug 4, 2021
    9
    The plot line in this game is awesome and it’s better than all Martin Scorsese gangster movies combined, imho. From the point of technical aspects this game is average.
  23. Hydroloik
    Mar 30, 2023
    7
    Great story with a perfect structure - - each chapter is about 30-60 minutes long. Loved playing 1-2 chapter every night for half a month or so.

    Gameplay isn't the best but it is serviceable. And the game does have some performance issues on base PS4 - - some screen tears and some fps loss here and there but it's not too awful, I guess. Overall, I would recommend this to anyone who    Great story with a perfect structure - - each chapter is about 30-60 minutes long. Loved playing 1-2 chapter every night for half a month or so.

    Gameplay isn't the best but it is serviceable. And the game does have some performance issues on base PS4 - - some screen tears and some fps loss here and there but it's not too awful, I guess.

    Overall, I would recommend this to anyone who is looking for a linear game with a captivating story.    … Expand
  24. MarkAurel121
    Dec 11, 2020
    8
    This is a good remake, but with some technical flaws. But I hope they take this base, improve the engine a bit and then build up a new game in the same era from there, this has potential!
  25. Arthurmirandaf
    Dec 15, 2020
    10
    Um jogo incrível!!! Meu favorito, história maravilhosa. Alguns bugs de otimização mas nada que atrapalhe na experiência, este jogo é simplesmente fantástico
  26. Szlachta
    Dec 19, 2020
    9
    Fantastic game. One of the best I have ever played. Amazing ambience allows you to feel the story. The plot remained, of course, unchanged and still arouses extraordinary emotions with the next actions of the antagonists. The difficulty of the levels is still high but more adapted to new players. In my opinion best remake in this year and one of the best in history of games
  27. Kulbash77
    Dec 28, 2020
    2
    Each time Hangar13 makes the games for the worse and worse.
    This game, lazily not a successful copy of the original that could not create properly in 2020, the original 2002 surpasses this crap even today!
  28. JDemoh57084
    Dec 28, 2020
    3
    OMG... It's a mockery of the original game. H13 You are just clowns and buffoons! There is no soul in this game! This game is a blank piece of paper for fools...
  29. Maurer
    Dec 30, 2020
    9
    The remake of the classic. Story of mafia city, of Tommy Angelo, cab driver who becomes a small mafioso, and with time is becoming one of the boss's most trusted people, which makes him roll on his back, becouse of a stupid thing that he could avoid. The gameplay is very pleasing, I played on the higiest difficulty level and loved it, even though it was hard I had fun playing it and hasThe remake of the classic. Story of mafia city, of Tommy Angelo, cab driver who becomes a small mafioso, and with time is becoming one of the boss's most trusted people, which makes him roll on his back, becouse of a stupid thing that he could avoid. The gameplay is very pleasing, I played on the higiest difficulty level and loved it, even though it was hard I had fun playing it and has been very nice time. The platinum trophy is not that hard when you use a maps of collectibles, story is very interesting and gameplay is very calming, overall huge redemption for hangar 13 for bad mafia 3.… Expand
  30. Kijeb6088
    Jan 4, 2021
    2
    Disgusting linear story is not made from the heart, but the emptiness and soullessness of this game as a fool in 2020, when even the original 2002 game is better played today.
    Walking is quite soulless and disgustingly empty.
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  1. Playstation Official Magazine UK
    Nov 15, 2020
    80
    One of the best-loved games on PS2 gets a pitch-perfect remake. Thick with atmosphere, Mafia: Definitive Edition just about manages to mask over any agerelated decrepitude. [Issue#181, p.91]
  2. GamingBolt
    Oct 31, 2020
    80
    Mafia: Definitive Edition's narrative and visual strengths help it overcome issues in other areas to deliver a worthy remake of the best game in the series.
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  3. LaPS4
    Oct 30, 2020
    85
    Mafia: Definitive Edition manages to place a great gangster adventure among the great titles of its genre by the end of this generation of consoles due to the excellent renovation of its graphic and sound section.
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