Thanks for the heads up on True Crime:NYC.
I can't seem to get Mafia off my PC. It's been there for years, and just won't go away. [That's not a request for support.]
If you like to drive and shoot out the window with passengers in your car who roll down their windows and blast enemies with Thompson SMGs or other weapons...if you like polished cutscenes and excellent game graphics...if you like using mods that make a great game even better...if you like a game designed to make it feel like you're starring in an old gangster movie, then play Mafia. Oh, yah, if you like to run people over and blow them up and walk up and blow their brains out or stab them or beat them to death with a baseball bat—if you like that, too…well you know the rest.
And if you like being chased and rammed by a bunch of hot babes in evening gowns cruising a sharp rod, get a mod and be sorry you messed with them, but glad you tried. [I think the sniper rifle is the best way to deal with those farm boys that come after you driving agriculture tractors…that’s in a mod, not the stock game]
Soon the CoLD Mod will have a new version, 2.0 released. Here are my favorite Mafia Websites. Lots of mods, videos, links, tech support, and discussion to check out.
Mafia Mods.org
Mafia Scene.com
My attempts to create links to MafiaMods.org and MafiaScene.com have failed, but those websites are easy enough to find, using Google or whatever search engine you prefer. Both are indespensible sources of Mafia stuff, though. So are these two websites:
CoLD MOD Forums
Mafia World
However, if you like multiplayer action, forget it. Some dudes were trying to exploit the Mafia game engine's MP capabilities, but I think they gave up, as did the guys trying to create a Mafia mod for BF1942, but I think there will be some 1920's-1930's era MP mod activity that produces results available for BF2 or BF2042.
Like I said, I play mostly WWII video games for PC. Illusions Softworks developed Mafia. It was built, I think, using a modified version of their Hidden & Dangerous II game engine, a WWII FPS title that offers cooperative game play during missions. But there is no MP in Mafia. Lots of us do what we can to let the developer and the publisher of Mafia know we’d really like to see a sequel, one that includes co-op mode and MP. We also do what we can to let those who want such a sequel to take place in some more modern time period know that they can go jump in the lake.
I don’t keep up with whether or not Mafia 2 will happen, as it’s been for years a case of Mafia 2 confirmed, then Mafia 2 canned, etc, then Mafia 2 confirmed again, and so on. There are bits about it from time to time, such as this article that had mentioned it.
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