Mafia Classic

I noped out of the game in the mission where you and your buddy have bats and are supposed to rough up a bunch of goons in some alleys. A list of irritating things going on in this mission: * The last save is before you enter the alley, which is before a cutscene that introduces the thugs. Every time you die you have to watch the cutscene again. * Combat with the bat involves rapidly circle straffing and spamming the attack button. Sometimes when you attack the bat doesn't swing, and sometimes it does. The hit box for when you register the hit is difficult to read. * If you are hit, it breaks your attack animation so you lose the swing. If you are facing more than one opponent, it is easy to get stunlocked. * Your buddy has to survive the mission. Your bat damages him. He likes to jump in front of you right before you swing. * I don't know why, but I am starting the mission with 60% health. I don't remember getting hurt before the save, but I must have done, and now that lower health is stuck. * Eventually there are enemies with guns and they seem to narrow in on your buddy, who by this point is very badly injured and can survive about 2 or 3 shots. I don't find much of this to be fun. A racing sequence with bad car physics. A motel shootout where npcs would occasionally headshot me as I rounded a corner killing me in 2 or 3 hits. The game has some cool elements that were novel for its time and may have elevated it. Open world's were still fresh - GTA3 was the same year, so they would have been in development at the same time. Good camera work with captivating stories had a while yet before they would be perfected. Since these elements are no longer novel, the gameplay simply doesn't hold up. It's an old game - but imo no longer a good old game. Recommendation: Play The Godfather from 2006 instead

absolutely awful, only get if you're absolutely insistent on some kind of video game history trip.

The main selling point for this now seems to be nostalgia. The driving feels so slow and unresponsive - made worse by a 40 mph speed limit. That all may be realistic, but it doesn't feel fun for me. There's a lot of driving about between missions and it gets boring fast. Navigating is terrible too as following the compass often leads to the edge of an island and you have to remember where the bridges / tunnel are or drive around looking for them. There is a radar when driving showing the locations of other cars but no map. Strange decision. The weapons don't feel satisfying either. Enemies take several headshots to kill, and hand-to-hand and melee combat is just clicking. Even moving around on foot feels bad. The fastest you can run is a jog, and climbing things is slow because you can climb to about waist-height. Maybe the story is good but the gameplay is lacking so much that I'm not prepared to go through it. One the plus side, I did get to see a woman in the bath. No nipple or anything but that was still good.

lose them drive faster are you kidding me lose them

Я как бы люблю старые игры (иначе что я забыл в GOG?), но когда эти старые игры такое деревянное недоразумение, как эта, то ну его к чёрту. Мне не прикольно по десять лет кататься туда-сюда на машинах по мёртвому городу, слушая штук пять треков, которые представляют собой коротенький, зацикленный луп. И всё для чего? Чтобы потом дохнуть сотни раз в перестрелках, где враги выбегают из самых подлых мест, будучи какими-то невероятно мастерскими стрелками. На каждую хорошую вещь в этой игре находится несколько ужасных. Хороший импакт от стрельбы? Сделаем каждую перестрелку ползанием на кортах, где мы пытаемся сквозь текстуры и модельки окружения отстрелить торчащие ноги и жопы вражеских болванчиков, заучивая тайминги их появления. Прикольные правила дорожного движения со светофорами, лимитом скорости и так далее? Погони - сплошная боль, потому что ты будто утюгом управляешь. Отдельно хочется выделить миссии типа аэропорта и морского порта. Гигантские локации с кучей снайперящих врагов хрен пойми откуда, с минимумом аптечек и с задачами "пойди хрен знает куда принеси хрен знает что". Весело! А какая "прекрасная" финальная миссия в музее... Как можно эту кривую рыготу хвалить, будучи в здравом уме? Ну как?