Soldato
- Joined
- 12 Feb 2006
- Posts
- 17,411
- Location
- Surrey
The intro music is the same.Why change the intro music? Why change Paulie and Sam's entire skeletal structure not to mention faces? Wtf are these icons on the map that lead to scripted cut scenes during the initial chase? Is it true you can't even ride the sodding trains
But yep everything else I agree with. They force you down a path for a "cool" event, like jumping a ramp they set up, they force you to take the exact route they want you to.
The rubber banding as someone mentioned is annoying too as there were times when I wanted to cut a car off, but go down a different road and the game says you've failed for going too far from the car.
I enjoyed it, but it definitely was far less fun than the original.
People say about the ending being changed but I didn't notice anything different that's worth mentioning a change.
The mission with the cigars and the warehouse where you have to load the truck up. They really changed that one and for the worse imo. The manual labour part has gone which is a shame as the actual loading of the truck and the time and effort it took made the success more rewarding.
Having all cards drivable from the get go is disappointing too. Seeing the better cars and being unable to drive them until later again makes it more rewarding when you finally can drive them.
The game is short. I bought it Friday and finished it Wednesday and that was on full classic mode. I played some checkpoints for what felt like hours just trying to get past one bit. If I'd played on standard setting I imagine I'd have breezed right through this game in one weekend.
The one thing is did make me realised is how much better having a great story with great missions in a game is. The open world of mafia 3 with forgettable missions has nothing on a single mission in mafia. I kept saying to my partner each time a new mission starts, oh this is a good one, then the next, oh this is a good one too. Not one mission was a boring one.
Games needs to remember this.
I hope soon to see a mafia 4 announced and it be the prequel to this game.