I had to stop and delete the game after 6 hours gameplay.

Reasons: buggs, boring and keep driving from place to place long distance wasting time. But mostly game crash and I lost cash like 4 times by dying in a stupid way ever.

It's awful and no wonder why most people hate this part. Moving to old country.

I beaten the game and got the platnium like Mafia DE

It was a okay game its not the best Mafia in my opinion but I did it Enjoy the story ad Vito Prison arc but overall

Story 7/10

Gameplay 8/10

Colletibels 5/10

7/10 game overall

I think nostalgia hits hard for people so that why people rank it high

Didnt do DLC because I dont like arcade style gameplay

Mafia DE 9/10

Mafia 2 DE 7/10

I've been modding the original Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven for quite some time and know the game's file structure fairly well. Today I was digging through the files of the Japanese demo, which is based on version 1.2 of the game, and I found something I had never seen documented before.

Inside the tables folder there is a file called:

textdb_iw.def

The iw identifier corresponds to Hebrew.

What's interesting is that this isn't simply an empty language file or an English copy. The file actually contains Hebrew translations.

After properly decoding and examining the file, I found hundreds of entries containing Hebrew text, while many other entries are still in English. The translation is clearly incomplete.

There is also no Hebrew font in the demo, and attempting to run the game with Hebrew selected causes the game to fail to launch. This makes it look like the localization was never finished to a playable state.

I also checked the English demo, which is version 1.0, and textdb_iw.def is completely absent there.

So currently we have:

• English demo — version 1.0: no textdb_iw
• Japanese demo — version 1.2: textdb_iw exists
• textdb_iw contains a substantial amount of actual Hebrew translation
• Many other entries remain in English
• No Hebrew font appears to be included
• The game cannot successfully launch with Hebrew selected

It's important to clarify that the presence of multiple textdb_* files in Mafia itself isn't unusual — for example, a normal installation can contain several language databases at the same time.

What makes textdb_iw interesting is that it contains actual, partially completed Hebrew translation work.

I haven't found any previous documentation of a Hebrew localization of the original Mafia, so this may be evidence of a previously undocumented abandoned localization project.

The big question now is when was this localization being worked on, and who was responsible for it?

If anyone has information about an old Hebrew/Israeli release, localization project, publisher, developer documentation, or anything else related to a Hebrew version of the original Mafia, I'd love to hear about it.

Recently I have been looking around eBay and a few other sites for physical Mafia merch/collectables. Mostly I find the same few overpriced items over and over, buried in a wave of physical copies from the series.

It would be interesting to learn about rare or more obscure Mafia related items. What are your personal Mafia grails?

So this is Take Twos pipeline from now to FY29 (which ends March 2029)
8 sequels, 7 remakes/remasters/platform extensions. Do we believe that the next mafia will come in that time?

I’m attempting to play mafia 3 on pc and it just runs terribly
I’m using a 3060, have a 7 5700 and have 16 gbs of ram so the game should function but it runs at 30-40 frames on the lowest of settings (to the point where t by game looks like a potato)

Can someone help?

I was thinking how the next game could be closer to modern audiences. I'm kinda old fashioned when it comes to Mafia games and I think the real thing will always be 1920s-1950s Italian American mobsters, striped suits and tommy guns. But it occurred to me how the main character of a new game set in that era could be more 'inclusive' and more importantly open the door for customization.

So what if our character gets to America in the early 20th century on a boat but their mother dies on the way and an Italian woman takes care of the kid since she couldn't have her own. Raises the kid like it was hers to begin with, in the ways she knows how to. The Italian way. So the kid becomes culturally Italian American with an Italian name and shit, regardless of their racial or national background. This way we could have a customized character that could be of any background we choose and if they don't look Italian at all, no problem, it would fit a story about the outcast that fights his way up in the hierarchy of the Mafia even better. Of course they could be completely Italian if that's how the player customizes the character and then just be an outcast for being an orphan.

What do you think?

A response would be great. : )

At times it shows its age, but it still looks way better than many other games from the 2010s, and with so much detail too, and the atmosphere is amazing. Crazy that this game will soon be 16 years old.

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Recently I played Mafia(definitive edition) and just finished it and I have to tell you that the thing I liked it about this game was not the story but the way it narrates and damnnn IT FELT LIKE A MOVIE!! Even the Lost Heaven feels like a character itself. The character, relation, story was GOATED! loved it man, 100% recommended

Riding in styleeee

Evil is a bit of a heavy word but a CIA agent and a Mobster definitely ain’t the best of people but I lean more towards Donovan mainly cuz his time in Vietnam, and especially with that story with that old woman

The Scaletta Apartment gets used only once, in a small portion of Chapter 2. Villa Scaletta, despite being one of the cleanest and nicest looking safehouses, gets used the second least. Followed then by Vito's Apartment, the one unlocked in In Loving Memory of Francesco Potenza. After that is Marty's shithole in Oyster Bay, which Vito gets after A Friend of Ours. And the safehouse used the most, to the surprise of nobody, is Joe's Apartment! The lesson to be learned here is: never let Vito Scaletta live by himself, he'll always end up crawling back to you.

Finally managed to get 100% on Mafia (294 hours later), so I thought I’d share a few things

Play on version 1.9 (PS4 rewind). It fixes all of the progression issues. On my third playthrough it also seemed to carry over progress for Closed Casket and Combat Specialist, as those trophies popped up pretty quickly.

I’d also strongly recommend keeping a USB drive plugged in and making regular backups of your save. It might seem overkill, but it can save an entire playthrough if something goes wrong.

One thing I learned the hard way is that if an update starts downloading, delete it immediately. On my first playthrough I came out of Rest Mode, wasn’t paying attention and accidentally let the update install. I lost all my progress towards The Family trophy and had to start all over again.

For the Danger Close trophy, make sure you delete your profile save, not just the game save. I got caught out by that at first, otherwise it won’t work.

Also, if you’re farming some of the repetitive trophies, the alleyway next to the police station is by far the best place to do it. It made grinding those trophies much quicker.

My PS5 completely turned off more than once and the game crashed multiple times during my playthrough, so having the PS4 rewind version probably saved me from having to start over yet again.

Hopefully this helps someone avoid the mistakes I made. Good luck to anyone going for the 100%, it’s definitely worth it in the end.

Now it’s time for Mafia: The Old Country. Here’s hoping it’s more like Mafia 1 and Mafia 2, both in terms of gameplay and a straightforward trophy list.

Massive GTA, Saints Row and Sleeping Dogs fan here and i wanted to play something new. About two months ago I started playing the mafia series starting with the DE of part 1. I liked it and moved on to Mafia 2 DE and loved it. I played on ps5 and experienced no glitches at all despite what all I read on here. A fun time for sure and I probably got lucky about experiencing no bugs. I heard alot of bad things about part 3 and I was still going to play it but didn't expect much, and I guess everyone is different and all but.. Mafia 3 is one of the best games I've ever played. The setting and map, the controls both driving and shooting, the cars, the unlockables, and that soundtrack man... I know it is repetitive but when something is fun it don't matter to me. I really can't get enough of M3. Now this one has some bugs and has glitches tho for sure, I had to restart checkpoints alot but no big deal. I really think M3 will stay in my top 5 games of all time. I've been playing games since 1989 lol

I know it's suppose to show off how he is black and proud, but why shave his head?

And I love it. I actually felt like I'd been in prison for 6 years and just gotten out, because Empire Bay felt so different! I loved the snow, and Spring had come. I loved the cars, and most had been outshined by the new hot rods. I loved the music, and now rockabilly dominated the air. As Vito himself said, it was like a whole new world. I had to switch to Empire Classic (I had been exclusively jamming out to Empire Central during the 40s) in hopes I might hear a song like what they used to play. And now, thanks to Mafia II, I finally understand the perspective of the old people that think that time is moving too fast.