Mafia Classic

I got this for free many years ago when they gave it away on one of the first digital distribution web stores (outside Steam) Direct2Drive. Apparently they could not sell it so they tried giving it away. That was the rumor anyway. It's pretty bad. The controls are awful, and the game has always flaunted the way it wants you to drive the speed limit or else. Well, this was the first one and it's brutal in how it attempts that. You also die extremely easily and the game doesn't seem built around having fun as much as it is built around accuracy. I have never been a fan of games that go for reality over fun, and history has shown these games never get mainstream acceptance. Look at GTA. That game is huge and has tons of crazy physics bugs (some of which get added by mods) and people eat that shit up. No one wants GTA to be 100% reality. You often have to have car chases in this game that involve firing at someone outside the car (or shooting up a building for example), and you have to fire from the car, but it's awful. You can never hit anything. This is probably historically accurate (Tommy guns are notoriously terrible weapons), but this doesn't make for a fun game. It is also much more tedious to drive than it is fun. Not only do you have to drive cars from the era (which are bad cars because at the time they were relatively new so control, power steering, and much more conveniant things did not existy). For some reason this game felt it necessary to accurate depict how awful that was to drive. And there is a lot of dull, lifeless world, driving in this game. I say check it out on a deep deep sale if you really want, but I'd wager you will not play for more than an hour or two before giving up due to the horrendously bad implementation of mechanics in this game. This is not the first time this game has been sold digitally. It may have disappeared due to non interest, but it's been around for a very long time. Buyer be warned.