The game has a cumulative score of 88% on MetaCritic. This “quick and easy” guide is intended for the many people who will be investigating and playing Mafia as a prelude to the release of the much-awaited Mafia 2 in 2010. The mods suggested below are ones that don’t interfere with the game’s setting in the 1930s.
Mafia is a gangster game, set in Prohibition-era America during the Great Depression. Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven (2002) was one of the successful and critically-acclaimed early “open world games” - along with its fellow open-world game Morrowind (2002).