The game features cutting-edge graphics, with an impressive overhaul that creates a beautiful and authentic 1930s Lost Heaven, complete with striking lighting and period-accurate details.
Mafia 1 tells a solid, classic mafia story with strong narrative beats and memorable characters, playing out like a mobster movie.
You play as Tommy Angelo, a taxi driver in 1930s Lost Heaven, Illinois, who is unwillingly drawn into the Salieri crime family after a chance encounter with mob enforcers. He encounters Paulie and Sam, enforcers for the Don Salieri crime family, who are being chased by a rival family (Morello). Tommy reluctantly helps them escape, which puts him on the radar of the Morello family.