Opinion about Mafia: Definitive Edition (without spoilers)

I wish you health! With you, the Gamepolice channel and today we have another very belated opinion this time about the reprint of the cult, at least for me personally, Mafia: Definitive Edition.

It is very belated because your humble servant, officer Starev, was fucking on his whole head and decided to go immediately on the classic, then the maximum level of difficulty. It would seem that ram, well, go on average first-write an opinion-make a video on which no, no, and they will stumble on hype and so on and TP, but the developers did not say that this is the same mode that would allow the same game of 2002. And I will tell you, I felt it so – but let’s go consistently.

In 2002, an event occurred in the gaming industry that influenced my addiction in the most cardinal way at that moment. The action of the “mafia” came out, which loves millions of players, including me, so much so that after its passage I sat down on a gangster theme. Mostly in cinema and revised a lot of films, not even the most famous. She has become my favorite game overnight to this day, and to date not to count how many I have passed it once. It had a strong plot, a wonderful action, the opportunity to ride a car in the style of GTA, and of course scrupulous attention to the details – which seems to me and introduced it into the status of the best games of that time. Then, thank God, there was no Internet and gamers without a twinge of conscience or attention to flaws could completely enjoy the story of a simple taxi driver Tommy Angelo.

Therefore, many perceived a statement about remake with an enviable share of skepticism. Moreover, the Hangar 13 studio was engaged in her responsible for the disgusting third part. For some reason, I was sure that the Czechs then created in 2002, and in particular its main creator Daniel Vovra was impossible to spoil. And he began to wait for a lot, to believe, and even issued a pre -order for almost anything, without looking about it until the release, so as not to spoil the impression. By the way, Vavra also left his opinion about the remake and it is not quite laudable. Yes, he liked the entourage and some actors of the Czech voice acting, but the shooting, the physics of the car and other aspects deprived him, although, as for me, he had a little vanity.

The languid expectation for me ended on September 25, 2020 at 2 a.m. in Moscow. Having launched it – I immediately realized that we have love again and that I would pass it more than once. What has changed during these 18 years you ask? Yes, that’s it!

And the first, this is of course the city – no, Lost Heaven itself remained actually the same. All these streets in which I loved to drive in childhood on the spot and I even focused without a card. But how they were redrawn – it’s just a fairy tale! Local surroundings look excellent. No matter how you walk down the street or go – you are literally impregnated with a thick atmosphere of that time. It’s very nice to be here. It is comfortable here! You are going along the bridge, and your heart just pours delightly looking at the local beauties poured by the sun. In the evening, beautiful reflections of the lights in puddles and cars will make you admire the local streets literally littered with various trifles. Of course, the graphics are guilty, it is good and, in principle, clearly shows what the industry technology has reached in these almost 20 years. Boxes with apples in small quarters, evening lanterns in Chinatown and so on look divine. I feel many will say, or more precisely, they probably said that the world is empty here and there is nothing to do here, but here it is needed no more than the game L.A. Noire, where he was also not the main part of the project – giving this role to the plot.

Local history will again force you to survive the events of the biography of the aforementioned taxi driver Thomas Angelo, who by the will of fate was the road to the criminal syndicate of the mafia family of Salieri. In the course of the action, you will have to experience all the charms and disadvantages of the gangster life – getting a family, friends, enemies and routine work. Be sure even if you did not play it before – the story has not lost the charm to this day, plus it will be able to pull out a couple of pleasant trump cards from the hat for those who have passed and know the plot.

Moreover, developers from the thirteenth hangar were also able to block some of the original flaws. For example, there is a moment where bandits chase the main character and he is hiding from them in a bar belonging to the Salieri family. So – in the original, the bandits go into this same bar behind Tom, after which these morons are killed. Here – they know on whose earth they are and understand that it is definitely not worth it to meddle. And there are a lot of such common sense here. In general, the whole story has become … I don’t even know what word to pick up …- more realistic … more lively. And not least thanks to the magnificent acting. Damn, these guys Stanislavsky would definitely say “I believe!”. Local dialogs sometimes take to the soul straight. Especially praise and actors of Russian voice acting playing on a hard five. It is still unusually pleasant that when listening to conversations in the process of driving a car, you are not forced to stop in the middle of the road in a mission in order to read subtitles, as in the GTA series.

Speaking of missions – they are also converted here in comparison with the original and sometimes so that some of them stand upside down. I personally do not want to talk about these changes at all, so that those who passed it before have experienced the same surprise as me. I only note that Stlsa in the game has become much larger – he is not intrusive and great diversifies local shootings. Anyway – the world of the game has become more expanded. For example, in our garage, a guy named Ralfi is in charge of and in his office you can meet the arranged photos from mom and so on. Here and there, newspaper clippings are scattered with historical moments of that era. By the way, it was funny to read notes about the unemployment of “great depression”, they say more than a quarter of the US population sits without work, and besides, horse taxes, although in our country things are now about the same – and this is called “stability”. Well, okay.

The shootings are good, at first https://noverificationcasinos.co.uk/ they seemed to be some-I don’t know-chaotic, but it was worth lowering the speed of the right stick responsible for aiming, how it became much more pleasant. This does not cancel the fact that it is damn difficult and some places I could not pass for forty minutes having a short -haired strip of health. Often, thanks to my crooked hands, I saw the download screen more often than the mission itself,. The devil pulled me to install the PS4 external hard drive and they were loaded after death, such a feeling, 15-20 seconds .

In addition, local first -aid kits increase Helsbar only until the middle – that any opponent should sneeze at you, as you have a short -legged. AI of the adversaries is contradictory – sometimes they surround you, it seems as if acting together, but often fall on you so that they die under a bullet. Although, given that at the classical level in another adversarial, it is necessary to plant 5-6 cartridges into the body, then there is a certain meaning behind this action.

The shootings themselves are spectacular, which is facilitated by a local rich interior, not only is it beautiful, duck also all sorts of particles flying out of fired corners look vigorous. Often, developers specifically place exploding barrels so that the woman’s jerks, and sometimes even too much bend the stick with script scenes of explosions. By the way, at times it is striking and the natural animation of the movement of people here intersects with an clumsy shift to another. What was worth making some movements more smoothly having Motion Capture at the same time – it is not clear.

There is a complete order with the fleet – there are a lot of cars and they behave on the road in different ways. Their physics is magnificent. My advice – do not be afraid to turn on the simulation mode, he is very pleasant and the car obeys the steering wheel well, although at first it seems that this is not so. I generally turned on the hand gearbox and, I must note, it greatly conveys feelings from real transmission. The first speed for touching, the second for turns, the third and higher for trips. It is gratifying that motorcycles appeared, but I swept on them a couple of times with strength, and it’s simple to see how they behave on the road.

Even a monstrous racing mission was pleasant. In the original, this she was just like death … a mission with a helicopter in Weiss City? Ha! Do not laugh, I don’t know why it is considered so difficult. And here I remember Duck in 2002 and could not go through it – I had to use the glue. In the remake, I walked it the first time ..

In their dreams! I spent two evenings on her-maybe I could have been in a cherry on the cake of the day (it is advisable to watch the video), where I calmly go the first one hundred meters-this is the end of the mission-I went through it-Nooo here some kind of mudlan is catching up with me and unfolds me and unfolds. I almost cut the gamepad on the atoms and decided that for me enough for me, having achieved only for the second evening. And so it was difficult to ride, but still, as I said above, nice.

And finally – the soundtrack, he is damn good, my respect to the composer. In some missions, he is not so foam so much interest – especially in the moment where it was necessary to deliver a broken racing car back to the garage in 2 minutes.

The game has disadvantages, yes, for the most part subjective, but still. And the first thing I noted for myself is the inability to remove GPS, and indeed an interface – this creation wants to go without it. This at first hit the atmosphere great, and indeed I like to disconnect the path to you in GTA-like games and look for the way on the map myself. This is the main thing that I hope the developers will add with the first patches.

Even in the atmosphere, it hits this car, where does it appear in your garage – yes, it was in the original and it is very pleasant to drive it, but, damn it, it was only in freeride mode, and not in the plot.

Also a little sad that they removed the side missions of Luke Berton. Perhaps in free driving mode in the city there will be something, by the way, I still did not understand if there are additional tasks in it at all. In the original, people with eccentric requests were arranged like saving a girl from a sea monster or get to a place with a fast-button tank tucked up on a gas station.

Further bugs – they are, but not much. The most furious for me, as I played on a manual box, when you get into the car for the most part it shows that it is at a third speed, not a neutral. And some cars here accelerate for a long time and you cannot understand – whether you are accelerating on the third, or it is the first to touch the first.

And as a result, this is 9 points out of 10.

As the classic used to say, this is a witcher from the world of mafiosi, and for me personally became Dark Souls from the world of pasta when passing at the highest level of complexity.

It needs to play it for everyone – both familiar and not familiar with the original. I am sure I will go through it more than once – and not two – and not even three.

This game needs to be gone slowly, as if you are losing a cigar or thirty -year -old whiskey.

Here every screenshot is a work of art and even by the end of the game I did not stop admiring the local world.

This is determined by the Masthev generation and it is worthy to buy it according to Full Price, especially since it is much lower than the rest of the novelties. Well, if there is no money now, then take a discount boldly.

And on SIM I say goodbye to you! See you very soon! There was an officer Startarev with you. Bye.