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Image: Hangar 13/2K Gamesīut before we learn how his time in the mafia came to an inglorious end, we learn how it all started, eight years prior, when he was just a cabbie in the wrong place at the wrong time, who found himself serving as getaway driver for two enforcers in the ranks of Don Salieri, one of two crime bosses waging war over the city. It’s clear that Tommy was involved in organized crime and that for one reason or another, things have gone south, leaving him looking over his shoulder for the hit that will invariably come.

He meets a man named Tommy Angelo, who has quite a story to tell-information he’s hoping to trade to secure protection for his wife and daughter. Our tale begins with a Lost Heaven detective walking into a coffee shop for an unlikely rendezvous.

It wants to superficially appear as if it can hang with the open-world epics of today, but without actually doing the work required to step into the modern age. Mafia: Definitive Edition feels caught between that era and this one. It’s also worth remembering just how far the genre has come since then, how much more varied missions tend to be today, how much more packed with detail and life the worlds they give us can seem.

The original Mafia came out less than a year after the granddaddy of modern open-world crime games, Grand Theft Auto III, and it’s worth remembering just how groundbreaking and thrilling games like this were at the time.

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