MDE is in a Yakuza Kiwami sort of situation: it's polished up to modern standards but the gameplay is still rooted to how it was back in 2002. This is a rather simple and linear game that you're pretty much going to play for the story and nothing more. While I consider the story in Mafia 2 to be more compelling, at least this should only take you around 10-ish hours. And yes, the racecar handling is improved but that doesn't mean much when EVERY car handles at different levels of trash since it was the 1930's.

As an aside, I happen to write this out while the Mafia trilogy bundle is on sale for 15 bucks. This isn't unique to Steam and I looked up that it's cheaper elsewhere by nearly two dollars (Humble Bundle, Fanatical) so I'd say that's a good sweet spot to grab all three.

And don't forget to trash the launcher, get rid of the intro logo movie (AFTER launching the game at least once), and run the game from its installation folder.

MDE is in a Yakuza Kiwami sort of situation: it's polished up to modern standards but the gameplay is still rooted to how it was back in 2002. This is a rather simple and linear game that you're pretty much going to play for the story and nothing more. While I consider the story in Mafia 2 to be more compelling, at least this should only take you around 10-ish hours. And yes, the racecar handling is improved but that doesn't mean much when EVERY car handles at different levels of trash since it was the 1930's. As an aside, I happen to write this out while the Mafia trilogy bundle is on sale for 15 bucks. This isn't unique to Steam and I looked up that it's cheaper elsewhere by nearly two dollars (Humble Bundle, Fanatical) so I'd say that's a good sweet spot to grab all three. And don't forget to trash the launcher, get rid of the intro logo movie (AFTER launching the game at least once), and run the game from its installation folder.