Mafia 2002

Is it still worth playing?

A 2002 third person action adventure for Windows, with PlayStation 2 and Xbox ports in 2004, set in the fictional Lost Heaven, Illinois, in the 1930s. You play Tommy Angelo, a taxi driver turned mobster, and follow his rise and fall within the Salieri crime family. It mixes driving, chases, races and shooting on foot, connected by cutscenes. The city covers about 4.63 square miles and has 51 cars to drive, plus nineteen bonus cars, five of them racing models. Four minor offenses in a row count as one serious offense, and serious ones, such as a visible weapon or assault, can bring an arrest or a shootout. There is no radio, and each mission has its own music. The game launched the Mafia series. The period setting is why it is worth playing now: Lost Heaven is modelled on 1930s American cities, and the missions move between chases, races and shootouts.