MAFIA: The City of Lost Heaven

January 5, 2010 – If you’re a huge fan of gangster movies/games then Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven is exactly the type of thing you have been waiting for, The Story is based in the mid 1930s to mid 1940s being the glory days of the Mafia seeing as WWII was the governments #1 priority, In this city there are two Mafia families one of them being The Salieri Mafia and the other being the Morello Mafia but in the end there can only be one supreme crime family in the city of lost heaven.

When you first play the game you come in as Tommy Angelo a normal every day taxi driver, when 2 guys jump into his taxi and tell him to take them to the Salieri Bar in Little Italy so now he has to drive them to the Salieri bar whilst being chased by Morellos henchmen, after he gets them safely back to the Salieri Bar he is rewarded with more then enough money to repair his taxi. The next day he does his job as he did every other day when he stops for a break he is attacked by the same morello henchmen that were chasing him the other night. Having no other option Tommy decides to run to the Salieri Bar through many side alleys after reaching the Bar the henchmen enter the bar and never come back out, after that Tommy Angelo is initiated into this huge and much organised Salieri crime syndicate, he works for Don Salieri the head of the Salieri mafia as an associate.

The attention to detail is generally top-notch. The cars look magnificent, and they're especially notable for the way they genuinely re-create the curviness of the era's vehicle design. The quality work in the city segments is rarely a little dirty, though, and there are a number of pop-ups on the horizon that's particularly obvious when you're going over bridges. The action levels, on the other hand, contain some really stunning lighting and texture work, and the game's cut scenes feature some of the most in depth and animated face models ever created for a computer game. The sound is equally excellent.

Once you finish the single player campaign, which should take somewhere from 14 to 20 hours, an additional mode called "free ride extreme" will be available. This mode lets you drive around Lost Heaven without any police meddling while uncovering 19 wild driving challenges. Completing each one unlocks a special vehicle. The first task involves chasing down a man in his underwear who can run extremely fast and has flaming feet, for which you're rewarded with a weird hippie mobile. The missions get weirder from there and will take at least another five to 10 hours of your time, if not more.

If by any chance you see this game at your local game retailer you should consider buying it and giving it a go as you will not be disappointed.

VGP Rating:

Written by: Adelaidian