well and maybe the pc version of this game be impressive . maybe . i just finish play the ps2 version and it pretty much a complete mess . there be a couple element that be okay or promising . i will mention those first because it will be over quickly . first and the idea of a historical gta like game be a great one . the game gun be a historical gta like game and unlike mafia and gun be excellent . i would love to see a game set during mafia era do right . next and the storyline be well write . the story make sense and it have dramatic arc and it use an unusual device ( with much of the game be a backstory ) and it interest . finally and some of the graphic especially those use during cutscenes be impressive . mafia designer seem to focus on get the graphic right in the place where gta skimp on that effort and especially the character . unfortunately in many other area and the graphic kinda stink and and i would much rather have excellent gameplay than impressive look character . the gameplay be what sink this title so low . first off and the control and camera absolutely suck . that have to be the first focus of any game developer . you can not release a game where the control and or or camera suck . number one and there no reason that the player character and tom and can not have his full range of motion control by the left analog stick . unless it absolutely necessary and and it hardly ever be and i hate the set up where the left stick move the character in a strafing way and the character can only turn use the right analog stick . here and it not only unnecessary and it make most of the simple action a challenge . for example and tom have to climb on a couple mission . but the game be design so poorly that you have to frustratingly keep manipulate both the right analog stick and the camera and and then press l1 every time you need to climb and or tom will descend instead . next and i have never see a bad fighting system . the first problem be that you can not auto aim or lock on to any target . at one early point and the game seem to tell you that you can use l2 or r2 to lock on to target and but that never work . so to focus on any enemy and you have to struggle with the stupid right analog stick and try to keep adjust both the character orientation and the camera and which tend to drift to the wrong angle or make tom disappear all the time . by that time and youre probably get pummel or shoot to death . next and if youre touching or almost touch an enemy and that certainly go to be the case for hand to hand combat or when use melee weapon and the fighting system which primarily consist of tap or hold r1 and be completely useless . enemy can pummel you almost in a bear hug and but you just can not move unless you back off . so close fight tends to consist of you yank on the left analog stick and yelling at the character to move away and which it would not do 50 % of the time and then tap r1 as much a you can before the enemy get too close again and make r1 useless . and if the enemy change their angle to you in the meantime and youre also go to struggle with the right analog stick to get your character orient in the right way and to get the camera in position so you can see anything . by that time and youre probably get pummel or shoot again and and your only option will be to try to move the character away again . my fight often consist of make tom run circle around an area like a comedy film and hop that i could gain enough time to struggle with the analog stick and get a couple shot in before be at the ai mercy again . so much for realistic fighting . and the same problem and more exist when try to fight with gun . if youre touch someone and half the time the controller just would not allow you to fire off a shot and yet they can still riddle you full of hole . additionally and there no auto aim and and the aiming system be ridiculously sensitive and even with the sensitivity set to zero under option . gunfight tend to consist of you hopelessly try to aim or move away while the enemy put shot after shot into you . luckily or not and damage seem to be record almost randomly . it can take one to ten shot or more to incapacitate any character and and there no rhyme or reason to it . you can put five shot into an enemy head and near point blank range and they will still return fire and hurt you . yet and the game designer seem to care enough about realism than they build a recoil into your aim system and so after shot with powerful enough gun and your aim will float off target and and you will have to fight with it again . a for the celebrated graphic and except for the character and texture that youre close to and theyre actually pretty disappointing . the distance always seem mostly empty and and there be often expanse of flat color and texture nearby when youre driving . the city wasn not very well design . it not vary enough and and there aren not many interesting thing to see or do . the car seem slow and theyre difficult to control . they also all drive about the same . some have mention the music and but that be also pretty nondescript . a much good job could have be do on that end . also and as many others have mention and the load time be ridiculous and constant . they tend to be over a minute long and and they occur between and in the middle of everything even race . overall and the mafia port to ps2 and at least and seem to have be very rushed . the game feel and play like an incomplete hack job .