Mafia I is one of my favourite games. Too bad this release is bringing the experience down. Frequent segfaults (mainly during quitting, but some in-game too) and absence of car radio music (I'm not complaining the original is gone, I'm complaining there is NONE) - as the game is 1/2 shooting and 1/2 driving, I've to substract 2*. The intelligence of NPCs is fairly good at release-time-measurements, today it seems weird. Police will sometime fine you for going 2kph over the speed limit, sometime they won't see 20kph over. They mind driving through red light, but they don't mind driving through people. Your mates will often go through your firing zone. But when you get your Random Number God pleased, enjoy this linear story game - as you would a movie. And prepare for some tears...
Plenty of fun and also plenty of headache. As manual says, easy to play, hard to master. Bring a calming drink for yourself if you get into building roman city. You'll most probably need it (for those not calm enough, cold shower will help). Good game play will mix with most simple things driving you nuts (Hey, 20% unemployment. Get up your lazy bottom, there's empty farm over there. Oh my, why you always turn left here, I need you to turn goddamn right. Ceres, damn Ceres, you have four temples here, other gods have two, why are YOU upset? *ding* The house between two prefectures caught fire somehow.). So, things are going bad. Time to read the manual. Take your time. Fix problems when they arise. And be prepared for some really (I mean __REALLY__) bad kerning there. So you take a break, maybe sleep on it, but soon you'll return to your people, with new brilliant idea coming in mind, and you know it'll work perfectly this time. Well, it won't. But you'll return again. Linux users - works for me <tm> in ubuntu 16.04+wine-1.6.2.
