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  Reviews of Mafia
Mafia got me immersed into a game like none before, I actually felt part of a mob, this is why I said GTAIII is a game and Mafia is an experience.
Mafia is very violent and also has quite a bit of swearing, one mission in particular has you fighting some guys while the Don is constantly yelling out the window "kill the bastards", "go on Tommy, kill every one of those bastards" so you may want to turn them speakers down a touch.
Mafia is a very tough game, 40 hours for the average game player to complete, which is very good considering some games are all over in 8.
mafia.3dactionplanet.gamespy.com /reviews.htm   (2114 words)

  
 Game Over Online Magazine - Mafia
There are parts of the game where you get downtime to cruise around but for the most part, you won't have to worry about lack of work because Mafia features a strong narrative to guide you in the right direction, making sure you will always be in the heat of the action.
Mafia may not be based on a particular city but Lost Heaven's setup, with its many bridges, architecture, style of dress, Little Italy district, and island-like setup, captures the zeitgeist of New York or Chicago during the Prohibition.
Mafia can't resolve that dilemma any better and the shocking end to the game is perhaps a little abrupt; senseless and unnecessary.
www.game-over.net /reviews.php?id=755   (1669 words)

  
 Mafia - Playstation 2 (PS2) Reviews - The Armchair Empire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
When Mafia was released for the PC way back in August of 2002, there were many things to praise it for.
However, although the core game play remains intact, the PS2 version of Mafia is so vastly inferior to the PC original that it is hard to recommend to any but those PS2 owners who only own Sony's system.
All game and anime imagery is the property of their respective owners.
www.armchairempire.com /Reviews/ps2/mafia.htm   (665 words)

  
 Party Game Central- Party games and birthday games for kids and adults
If they determine the identity of a mafia, they can either covertly try to get people to vote to kill that person by staging an argument as to why, or they can announce themselves as detective and state they know with certainty that the person is mafia.
However, if both detectives die but there are one or two mafia still alive, the game continues as the citizens try to kill the mafia through the voting process and the mafia try to kill the citizens one by one until none are left.
If only one mafia is alive and the game progresses to where there are only three players left, if the vote ends up killing a citizen (leaving only one mafia and one citizen) the second citizen automatically dies and the mafia wins the game.
www.partygamecentral.com /pgcstandard/gametmpstd.asp?gn=MAFIA   (1279 words)

  
 GameSpy.com - Review
Usually when a game shows up unannounced, it's because it got rushed out and it's not complete and it's going to be a bad game.
In both games, you play a thug, you have an entire city to wander around, and stealing cars is a lot of the fun.
The entire game is told in flashback fashion, with you taking control of Tommy through twenty missions of varying lengths and difficulty.
www.gamespy.com /reviews/september02/mafia   (655 words)

  
 Mafia® the Game
With all of the characters in place, the Mafia members try to knock off the Detectives, while the Detectives attempt to find out who the Mafia members are and try to swing the Peon clan to vote the criminals out at accusation time.
PLAYING THE GAME: It is best to have an odd number of people as a single player fills the role of the District Attorney or D.A. This person controls the play of the game by instructing the players to complete four actions during each round of play:
Mafia® is a registered mark of identity for desjgn™.
www.geocities.com /saturnity2/mafiathegame.html   (534 words)

  
 Mafia (game) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mafia is usually played in groups with at least five players.
The Mafia, of course, has to find a way of informing this person that they are dead without revealing their identities.
An abstract multi-agent framework applied to a social interaction game is a research paper on modelling the game as a multi-agent system.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mafia_(game)   (3822 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Mafia - The City of Lost Heaven: Software   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Mafia gives you a mission such as "have this race car manipulated", and naturally, there is one place to pick it up, and one place to bring it to have the work done.
Mafia is one of those games that people play years after its release and kick themselves for not picking it up earlier.
Mafia is about as close as you'll ever get to playing a role as a gangster fighting against the Untouchables and you'll never forget the story and the final conclusion of this classic.
www.amazon.com /JACK-ALL-GAMES-Mafia-Heaven/dp/B00004U8K2   (1508 words)

  
 Mafia Review - GamersMark
The game’s framerate is shaky in-game during heavy traffic, the textures are dull, and the draw distance is poor by standards set in Nintendo 64 games.
Add that to a lack of health replenishments found throughout each of the game’s missions, and the ineffectiveness of weapons as the shotgun compared to a simple handgun, and you easily have a game that requires players to mold near flawless strategies through the process of trial and error.
Mafia is one of the games that isn’t too polished, yet at the same time manages to deliver a gaming experience that none will regret.
www.gamersmark.com /reviews/view/405   (1606 words)

  
 Mafia - GameCritics.com
This is a game about a violent crime family and is probably not something you'd want the little ones playing.
Mafia on the Xbox is a port of the infinitely superior PC version (as was the PlayStation 2 release).
The game features an intensely cinematic feel that highlights how games and movies can be similar in a positive way for a change.
www.gamecritics.com /review/mafia/main.php   (1020 words)

  
 Mafia Review - GamersHell.com
Tommy begins the game by telling the detective his side of the story and you play along with it.
Since the game’s time set is placed in the 1930s, the cars look and perform as you would imagine they would in that period.
Mafia is a great game even though the graphics aren’t top notch.
www.gamershell.com /ps2/mafia/review.html   (908 words)

  
 TeleFragged -Mafia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven is one of those games that comes almost out of nowhere and surprises people with some great atmosphere and awesome gameplay.
The hype for this game has been relatively small compared to the recent blockbusters in the last six months, which makes playing it all that much more enjoyable - I had no idea that this game was going to be this good.
Mafia focuses more on the on-foot gunfighting in later parts of the game, so the ability to dodge and aim at the same time are crucial.
www.telefragged.com /reviews/mafia   (1040 words)

  
 TVG: Mafia Images // News
“Mafia could be classed as two games in one, racing and action, but linked by the background story.” In the film The Usual Suspects, the main suspect told police in flashback sequences what had happened in return for immunity: that same scenario is played out in Mafia.
“We wanted to create a game that will allow the player to experience the lifestyle of a mobster during the time of the prohibition and all that was a part of it.
What we believe makes Mafia different from other similar titles is that ours not only tries to recreate the atmosphere of the times, but it mustn’t be classed as an action game.
www.totalvideogames.com /news/Mafia_Images_1862_1389_0.htm   (435 words)

  
 Dueling Gods Mafia Game
During the night the mafia wakes up and chooses whom to kill, and then the doctor wakes up and chooses whom to save, BUT before everyone wakes up for the day the remaining 4 people (the switchers) each wake up one by one and and they each chose one person.
Mafia is a fun game of limited information, which is gradually revealed as people die.
Without knowing for sure who is and is not mafia once people die eliminates the significance of watching who votes for who and eliminates the availability of certain advanced strategies such as mafia nominating and then voting off their own mafia to confuse the citizens.
www.johnwcooper.com /mafia-the-game.htm   (2785 words)

  
 Mafia Review
Both games have the same feel - the third-person view when on foot and the variable camera angles when driving are identical in both games.
But the two games run on very similar premises - Find the start mission point, drive (or steal a car) and perform whatever action is required by your Don...collecting protection money, making life miserable for the other families, making things explode, and showing the world that crime can indeed pay.
Many of the characters within the game resemble either mobsters from the movies, or suspected mafiosos of today - for example, Don Salieri, the head of the protagonist crime family bears a striking resemblance to John Gotti, the Teflon Don, and his arch-nemesis Morello might be a lost relative of Bobby DeNiro.
www.actiontrip.com /reviews/mafia.phtml   (2913 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Mafia: Computer & Video Games   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
When we reviewed the PlayStation 2 version of Mafia a few months back, we claimed that the game didn't age well and wasn't nearly as enjoyable as it was on the PC when it originally released.
Mafia is one of the most immersive games I've played - you really do feel as though you are living and working in the 1930's Mafia.
Here is where the game might stick in some peoples craw because there is a lot of driving from one mission to the next and the driving can be somewhat slow at times due to the era the game takes place in.
www.amazon.com /Gotham-Games-Mafia/dp/B000083GIV   (2351 words)

  
 EventWise Party Game
Then the lookout shouts "mafia, heads up!" and the people with Ace cards put their heads up, to show the lookout who they are.
Now that the lookout knows who the mafia and policemen are, he can assume everyone else is a citizen (people with a Queen, a Jack or a number card.) Now the lookout can repeat the process of "night time".
When the mafia's heads are up, the mafia can point to one person, but the lookout says nothing, the person they point to is automatically "Dead" and out of the game.
www.eventwise.co.uk /asp/Game_088.asp   (496 words)

  
 Mafia - Reviews - Stratos Group
Mafia starts out in 1932 in a town that could be in New Jersey, could be in New York, or could be Chicago, but isn’t quite any of them.
Mafia is a third-person action game that is two parts shooter, one part driving game.
Mafia takes excellent story, gameplay, graphics, and sound, and blends them into a cohesive whole that earns it a ranking not only as the best game I have played this year, but one of the best I have ever played.
www.stratosgroup.com /reviews/games.php?selected=0209mafi   (2370 words)

  
 Mafia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Mafia can be described as an experiment in human psychology and mass hysteria, or as a game between informed minority and uninformed majority.
In the years long gone many have played this game in the flickering shadows in the Coffee House at Old Graduate College in Princeton.
The knowledge of the ancients is stored in an earlier version of the Mafia homepage.
www.princeton.edu /~mafia   (106 words)

  
 Sicilian Culture: News & Views: Italian Government Criticizes Mafia Video Game
Italian police are trying to ban the game, which Illusion Softworks is preparing for worldwide launch by the end of this month.
Mafia isn't promotion or a manual—this is absolutely outlandish," said Daniel Vavra, the game's lead designer.
It had to change the game for the German market because of tough regulations governing the depiction of violence, specifically blood, which had to be shown as green.
www.sicilianculture.com /news/2002-mafiagame.htm   (988 words)

  
 Werewolf
Werewolf is a simple game for a large group of people (seven or more.) It requires no equipment besides some bits of paper; you can play it just sitting in a circle.
I'd call it a party game, except that it's a game of accusations, lying, bluffing, second-guessing, assassination, and mob hysteria.
A description of Mafia at the 1997 NPL Convention, which is where I learned about it myself.
www.eblong.com /zarf/werewolf.html   (3800 words)

  
 Mafia for PC - Mafia PC Game - Mafia Computer Game
Quite simply, Mafia is one of the best games of the year.
The suspenseful sneaking gameplay and strong dose of character interaction make Prisoner of War a game that's by all means different from most others out there.
This story-driven action game will have you assuming the role of a gunslinging priest during the American Civil War.
www.gamespot.com /pc/action/mafia/index.html   (306 words)

  
 InTheMafia.com - Free Multiplayer Mafia Game - WIN UP TO $300 MONTHLY!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
This cannot be disputed and refunds may not be issued on any purchases made that were lost as a result of your account termination.
A bug is a glitch in the game coding which allows the player to get something they shouldn't normally get.
You are guaranteed to get whatever you paid for, however, if found cheating/violating game rules/violating TOS Policy, you may lose your purchases and may be denied a refund.
www.inthemafia.com   (505 words)

  
 Omerta - Massive multiplayer online text-based RPG gangster and mafia game -
Set in the 1930's gangster and mafia world, the game is all about status, money and respect.
New game players choose to start in a city of either USA or Italy, where the mafia has got a large influence even now.
Join the game, everything is free and if you're good enough, grow strong and most importantly, stay alive, we may just be looking at the next Don Barafranca.
www.barafranca.com   (295 words)

  
 Mafia for PS2 - Mafia Playstation 2 - Mafia PS2 Game   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Because the PS2 version of Mafia compromises the PC version's graphical presentation and also introduces more interruptions into the gameplay, it comes off like a mere shadow of the original.
A great shooter but there a few nagging flaws in the game that keeps it from shining
A solidly average game whose few original ideas are compromised by screwy controls, some pacing problems, and a punishing save-game system.
www.gamespot.com /ps2/action/mafia/index.html   (284 words)

  
 Mafia PS2/Xbox Game Profile - CGN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
As the main character, Tommy the cab driver, it is your duty to do what mobsters do best: kill, stab, shoot, drive, and raise hell on your way to extreme wealth and a sharp looking zoot suit.
Don't, however, expect a modern city, as this game is set in the 1930s.
Mafia is due in stores on January 27th.
www.cgno.com /games/407.html   (676 words)

  
 Xbox.com | en-ca,Games,Action,Mafia - Mafia
The story is conveyed by spoken dialogue and motion-captured animations taken from professional actors.
Mafia is one of the greatest crime dramas ever told in gaming!
Faithful reproduction of their style and physics make car chases unlike any other console game.
www.xbox.com /en-CA/mafia   (274 words)

  
 The Mafia Boss - Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game
You wanna be a real Mafia Don like Al Capone, John Gotti and have all the little mafiosos "Kiss Your Ring...
This game is completely browser based, you don't need to download anything or install anything!
Enter the The Mafia Boss World, where you will become a boss of a crime gang.
www.themafiaboss.com   (501 words)

  
 Mafia : Reviews, Preview, Cheats, News, Screenshots, Movies, and Forum
"Mafia is a pretty fun game, although the Xbox version doesn’t get anywhere near the excellence of the PC version."
"Mafia was a game-of-the-year candidate for the PC but is only a decent title for the Xbox"
"Mafia is an great fighting/driving action game that should keep you happily engaged in a life of crime until the next Grand Theft Auto chapter comes out."
www.rottentomatoes.com /g/xbox/mafia   (654 words)

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