The game is about inspecting people crossing the border of a fictional country, with a gameplay loop of inspecting documents, checking for forgeries, and deciding if you want to break the law. The base game is very simple: check the documents of people crossing the border by looking for any signs of forgery, like invalid countries, incorrect expiration dates and inconsistent names. As the days pass and events happen, new rules will come into effect: checking for stamp forgery, automatically denying certain countries, and verifying claims through fingerprints. You need to take care of your family and unexpected expenses will happen, like sick relatives and broken heating, so admitting or denying people in a fashionable way is necessary to gain enough money to cover all expenses. Throughout the game, different people and organizations will ask for favors or make demands, which can result in money, returned favors, heartfelt thanks, problems, death and different endings.
The story is about an attempt at a utopia underwater, but things go south in a very violent way between residents, people in power, and criminals. As the player, you discover this place a few years later and through exploration and audio logs, you try to discover what happened. The gunplay is different because you are not a trained soldier, so weapons have strong kickback and inaccurate aim, but you have access to Plasmids as an alternate weapon type, that can freeze, electrocute, incinerate, and even throw back enemies.
To enable achievements, set mafiadefinitiveedition.exe to run as administrator. The game itself doesn't have any revolutionary gameplay, it's very similar to GTA and Assasin's Creed, but its story shines exceptionally: it was obviously inspired by classic mafia movies like GoodFellas and The Godfather, and classic mobsters movies like Scarface. I would describe the game as a movie with small gameplay breaks, since most cutscenes are shown just like movie scenes: a small bobble to the camera, face closeups, good voice acting, detailed face expressions, camera pans, great graphics, great soundtrack, and an engaging story. The story is about a cab driver that unluckily becomes a getaway driver for a mafia, and slowly works its way up the family to become one of the don’s trusted workers, all while highlighting the backstabs, distrusts, conflicts, lies, manipulations, and self-destructing life in organized crime. Other reviews mention how there was cut content and a modified ending, but as someone who hasn’t played the original game of 2002, the game still feels complete and fulfilling as it is. Again, to enable achievements, set mafiadefinitiveedition.exe to run as administrator.
The game has guns and uses them as its main gameplay loop, but unlike Fallout, CoD and other shooters, you are not proficient in them: your aim is not exact, recoil is very strong, and ammo is sparse. The story is about uncovering what happened with a suposed utopia now overrun with bloodthristy people.
The game is more of an arcade simulator to manage different game systems and upgade the store. The only thing that wasn't clear is that the upgrades within the arcade games are permanent, instead of only for the current run like in real-world arcades.
