In Mafia, you make your own cover behind doorways and corridors, and given that you're only about as tough as the enemies you're fighting, each venture into open territory feels like a Wild West duel. While the shooting is probably as out of date as the driving, I think it remains entertaining to me because I'm so tired of the cover system being the only solution to the logic issues of third-person combat. Remembering how close I came to punching my dad's computer 12 years ago, I ended up coasting it on the easiest difficulty. In 2002 I felt like the developers had suddenly turned on me.įor this writeup I tried to beat it on 'extreme' difficulty six times, and found it laughably tough to even approach first place. You can adjust it so the usually aggressive drivers politely move aside and slow down if there's any threat of you not winning, and you can turn off the sensitive damage. In the patched version the difficulty of this racing sequence has been solved, but imperfectly. Back in the day, this early mission was so hard it prevented many players from ever seeing the majority of Mafia's story, so inhumanly fast were its AI drivers. Anything but first place isn't good enough. For those not familiar with this part of the story, it's set up by the bizarre premise that first-time race driver Tommy has to win to protect Don Salieri's gambling scam. The difficulty of the driving is only amusing until you reach the notorious racetrack mission.
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