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Reverend
13-Sep-2002, 05:46
Anyone getting this game? All reviews thus far are good and I've actually ordered it.
Frazas
13-Sep-2002, 13:23
The storyline is great, the action sequences are also very good. The only thing where GTA3 wins in the adrenaline of the car chases.... but that is because the game is based on 1930 cars... :)

It is worth your money, if that what you were wondering.
Swiss2
24-Sep-2002, 01:09
I've been thinking about getting it myself. Still on the fence......
Eillio
09-Oct-2002, 20:35
the story line is amazing and the city i think seems much more real. The city is huge and most importantly there are highly detailed indoor buildings as well. Oh yeah and the shooting in it is amazing also.
Gollum
10-Oct-2002, 14:10
I'm not yet through the game, but so far its been great! The art direction is excellent, story, graphics and sound are top-notch.

I have gripes with the driving though, too much of it with little to no purpose other than "getting there" (usually from one end of the city to the other, sometimes seems like its designed to simply lengthen the time needed to beat the game). That in a city with a speed limit of 40mph = a bit boring. The missions themselves vary from mostly excellent to sometimes a little annoying, but the later ones are very rare in between. Not an AAA title IMHO, but almost... :)
John Reynolds
10-Oct-2002, 16:32
I would love to enjoy this game but the 9700 I have installed isn't letting me. Flashing shadows and lock-ups (the nasty kind that require a system reboot) are preventing this. :x
Reverend
11-Oct-2002, 18:06
John, the flashing shadows happens on all systems with a 9700Pro. ATI is looking into this... I mentioned the Z offset thing in another thread.

I have experienced no lockups at all. Can you repeat (in case you did elsewhere) your system specs?
Dave Baumann
11-Oct-2002, 18:13
there was a report about some Dell drivers or something thats supposed to fix a lot of stuff in games - Mafia being one of the ones listed.
John Reynolds
11-Oct-2002, 22:26
there was a report about some Dell drivers or something thats supposed to fix a lot of stuff in games - Mafia being one of the ones listed.

If memory serves, Dave, you run your desktop at 1280x960 and so do I. These Dell drivers don't offer that res. as an option. I also lost all AA in D3D.
John Reynolds
12-Oct-2002, 16:34
John, the flashing shadows happens on all systems with a 9700Pro. ATI is looking into this... I mentioned the Z offset thing in another thread.

I have experienced no lockups at all. Can you repeat (in case you did elsewhere) your system specs?

I finally got around to d/l the Rage3D Tweak and I checked full Z compatibility and W buffer and no more lock-ups in Mafia. The flashing shadows also seem greatly reduced, though I only just played the first mission and the beginning of the next (dropping the pedestrian off at the church downtown).
Reverend
13-Oct-2002, 05:42
But you don't need full Z compat and W buffer support to prevent lock-ups! I've run the game without messing with Rage3DTweak and no lockups.
John Reynolds
13-Oct-2002, 15:38
But you don't need full Z compat and W buffer support to prevent lock-ups! I've run the game without messing with Rage3DTweak and no lockups.

Beats me. It seems to be one of those titles that're hit 'n miss with people. All I know is when I used the tweaker to enable the W buffer support I can play missions without the system hard locking. Anywyas, current system specs are an ASUS P4T533-C mobo, P4B 2.4, 512MB of 1066 RDRAM, Audigy, Adaptec 19160 SCSI controller, Windows XP Prof., the 9700 Pro, etc.