Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven (2002) (VG)

Director:

Daniel Vávra

Writer:

Daniel Vávra (writer)

Release Date:

28 August 2002 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller

Tagline:

It's nothing personal

Plot:

You play a 1930s mobster as you act out your confession of your rise in the ranks of organized crime.

Plot Keywords:

Taxi Driver | 1930s | Confession | Betrayal | Organized Crime

Awards:

2 nominations

Cast

Michael Sorvino	...	Thomas 'Tommy' Angelo (voice) (as Mike Sorvino)
Marek Vasut	...	Tommy (Czech version) (voice)
William DeMeo	...	Paulie (voice)
Petr Rychlý	...	Paulie (Czech version) (voice)
Matt Servitto	...	Sam (voice)
Ludek Ctvrtlík	...	Sam (Czech version) (voice)
George DiCenzo	...	Don Salieri (voice)
Antonín Molcík	...	Salieri (Czech version) (voice)
Jeff Gurner	...	Ralph / Lucas Bertone / Various voices (voice)
Tomás Sýkora	...	Ralph (Czech version) (voice)
Václav Knop	...	Lucas (Czech version) (voice)
John Tormey	...	Vincenzo (voice)
Miroslav Saic	...	Vincenzo (Czech version) (voice)
Paul Scannapieco	...	Luigi (voice)
Tomás Karger	...	Luigi (Czech version) (voice)

Also Known As:

Mafia (Czech Republic) (International: English title) (game box title) (USA) (working title)

Country:

Czech Republic

Language:

English | Czech

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Germany:16 | Australia:MA | Ireland:15 | UK:15 | USA:M

Company:

Illusion Softworks

Trivia:

In Mission 8, entitled "The Whore", the player is sent to a hotel called 'The Corleone', a reference to the crime family empire in the movie The Godfather (1972).

Quotes:

Paulie: [after some thugs caused problems in Salieri's territory] Me and Tom will fix it! Do they think this is freakin' Lunapark or something? I'll rip them apart with my own hands!
Don Salieri: Paulie, Paulie take it easy. Nobody is killing anybody, get it? Just teach them a lesson; Break every bone in their body's and leave them laying in a pool of their own blood. Make sure those bastards need wheelchairs, little kids will laugh at their busted faces. Let everybody see what happens, when somebody trashes my territory!

Movie Connections:

References Speed (1994/I)

Soundtrack:

'Long About Midnight

Like an interactive movie.

I originally got Mafia for my PC but it wasn't powerful enough to run it properly, now in 2004 I've got it for the PS2 and I just finished it today. I miss it already, it's been there ready to tell the next chapter of Tommy Angelo's story for the past 5 days. There are a lot of missions, but like chapters in a good book, I wish there were more. There's a lot of good games coming out of Europe lately, first Hitman (Denmark), then Max Payne (Finland), and now Mafia out of the Czech Republic. Lets hope there are more.

Mafia almost literally transports you to 30's prohibition-era Chicago (the city the town depicted in Mafia is based on) with slow cars, hats, and tommy guns. It's a little bit like Grand Theft Auto in the style of play, and like "It Came from the Desert" in its historical richness.

If you have a PS2 or high-spec PC it would be a crime to pass up this game.