Review of the final edition of the Mafia - the more the Irish as goodfellas

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The first sex scene I have ever seen in a video game was in Mafia, in 2002. At the time, it seemed extremely adult. It's pretty funny enough to think about it now. 2002 was the year of the exit of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. It is also the year of Morrowind, Neverwinter Nights and the original Spider-Man video game. The graphical power of these games is laughable according to today's standards, but it serves as a lesson in perspective. The 2002 players had no problem suspending their disbelief to see the narrative desired by some glorified sticks bumping ugly. This did not prevent the Hangar 13 studio from completely rebounding the game with a new graphic engine that could go to face-to-head with the big outputs of 2020.

This makes Mafia: Definitive Edition One of the most attractive games I have ever seen. Many important elements of the game have been completely redone. The story of Tommy Angelo, its climb in the Salieri Crime family, its more and more conflicting loyalties, the moving consideration of Omertá's concept, have all been recreated. And by recreation, I mean completely redone. The original game featured Michael Sorvino, who was replaced by Andrew Bongiorno (who also performs movement capture). In fact, all the distribution is new, the scenario is inflated, the whole city of Lost Heaven has been redesigned.

Which has not changed much, it's the gameplay. I mean, that's not absolutely true. There is a brand new game engine after all. I guess what I mean is that you do all the same things in Mafia's remake than in the original. You drive from one place to another, you arrive there and you pull on guys. Not even as many guys. Fusillaries tend to be fast and brutal. They are not so difficult. Anyway, aim seemed pretty generous.

The design of the mission is almost exactly the same. This is probably the most overwhelming indictment against the match. Although taking the appearance of an open world game, Mafia is not. You play through linear missions that require you to do things from one point to another. At the end of a mission, you bring someone home (usually your two enough adorable paulia and SAM). And then another mission begins. It is not a bad thing in itself - Naughty Dog has made a very strong demonstration in the kind of linear action game - but that sorts the question of why such attention has been given to the creation of A seemingly open world.

The answer to this can be found in the free ride mode of the game. I see the attraction in there! I have good memories of passage from the controller in Grand Theft Auto San Andreas, from the explosion of one of the many fun radio stations and see how my friends and I could cause before we are wasted . A more elegant game could have embedded the game into the world open to the solo game, but no matter. What is more disturbing is how freezing is unsatisfactory to play. It is an American metropolis of the 1930s, so it is not as if cars were rolling at speeds much greater than 50 mph (about 80 km / h for my non-American buddies).

There is simply not much to do in Free Ride apart from looking at the pretty landscape (which is indeed pretty). In Red Dead Redemption 2, you can go hunting, then sell what you kill or use it to create fun outfits. You can also play poker, blackjack, dominoes or dozens of other mini-games. In Mafia, you can drive your clumsy cars, listen to jazz and kill people at random. There is not much temptation to live in this world. There is not even money to win or things to buy. It's as if the developers realized that they had created a beautiful world for players, without stopping to feel the roses.

I think the best comparison to be done is with a definitive work of the figurative sponsor of the genus Mafieux. Mafia: Definitive Edition does not remember anything as much as the Irishman of Martin Scorsese. This film used advanced motion capture technology to transform the age of its stars. Robert de Niro played a guy in the twenty at the beginning of the film and an old man decrepit at the end, but he was 75 during the film's shoot. The technology is very good; It really looks like a young Niro at the beginning of the movie. But there are squeaky things you can not hide with an animation. There is something in the way the young of Niro moved that was strange. He had the posture and the approach of a 75-year-old man. And that destroyed the illusion. It would have been easier to suspend my disbelief if he just wore a bad wig. The magic trick of the aging CGI has made the dissonance more difficult to swallow.

The same goes with Mafia: Definitive Edition. It looks like a young game. I am not an expert in infographics, but the number of polygons and texture resolutions seemed rather good (even if I would not be surprised if even these concepts were a little outdated). But because the missions, the mechanisms of play and the verbs (drive, shoot, walk, jump) are all so old, a new layer of paint is not what Mafia needed. It was necessary to rethink it from the bottom.

But then we enter a territory really observing the navel. Who implored a story about Tommy Angelo's story? It's not Lara Croft. It is not even the silent protagonist of Grand Theft Auto III (I think the name of this guy was Claude?). It's not a game that has stayed long in public consciousness. It's a bit hypocritical because I remember Tommy Angelo, but I got back from him. The things that seemed to me if adults and mature in high school seems rather laisant now. We had stories about protagonists like Arthur Morgan and Nathan Drake. We witnessed the climb and fall of Bioware. I'm not saying that Mafia was not an important step in the development of serious games that were treated seriously, but after reconsidering it, I do not see what the story has to offer to players in 2020.

What is funny is that after playing, Mafia still has his charms. I am sure that part of this is nostalgia, but it is a story that transcends its clichés. I did and I take care of Tommy. His wife and family are criminalized, but when he says he's fighting for them, I believe it. This makes definitive edition something that is similar to a stroke remake. It manages to capture the charm of the original, the impregnates of modern technology and freezes all its defects in an amber with sepia tones.