Good, but not as good as I remember
This game offers a fairly good story-based open-world experience. It's truly a sum of its parts.
Positives:
Story-wise, it pretty much satisfies everything sterotypically Mafia/Italian. There's a love scene that'll make you laugh. How these are positives, I'm not sure. There's something enjoyable about it maybe. The gunplay and controls are generally solid. The vehicle controls are still pretty good. Don't go in expect to play with a controller, nor would I recommend trying since this game can be quite unforgiving.
Negatives:
I say unforgiving because with playing it, I recall why I only played through the story once. The gameplay is pretty solid, but there are issues with the checkpont system, the artifical intelligence, and the health system. For the checkpoint system, there can be times where it's extremely hostile. When you load back into the game from a cutscene, you may be thrown into a firefight and you will already be hit once or twice, immediately losing much-needed health. This game often relies on luck when it comes to artificial intelligence. The AI can range from being extremely dumb to Terminator 2. This leads to issues with the health system: whether there be a cutscene or a loading screen, Tommy's health is consistent throughout the chapter of the game. Did you just survive by a hair that last firefight? Well, you'll have to live with that hair unless you're lucky to have health box placed into the next fire fight. Otherwise, you may be required to go back two check points to try and do better. This is the thing that I remember hating, as the health boxes are placed almost nonsensically.
Overall, it's an enjoyable experience. If you can get a trainer for this game, I recommend it for those rare times where you may find yourself restarting the last checkpoint a dozen times.
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