Mafia great game until ...

[Solid Snake]

I recommend you NOT to buy this game if you hate cheating. There is this ONE level which makes the entire game cr@p. Why? Because someone doesn't know what physics is.

Right, it is a racing level. Easy right? No not really, not when your car weighs in simulation NOTHING. That's right. Nothing. It's not the slips and slids that make me loose it is the darn physics engine being too highly reactive. For instance I was driving along at 35 KPH and I hit a slope at about 5 degrees from flat ground. Guess what? I was sent flying into a barrel roll. A car going into a barrel role at 35 KPH of a ground off at 5 degrees? Now, I only do a first year level physics paper, but that cannot be right.

Do correct me on this though.

BTW this can be repeated many times, it's sometimes a delight to see this happen, but I have been playing this level for 5 hours straight and I have not gotten anywhere. You cannot quick save either.

Other than that stupid game design, the game is fantastic. You can always download the saved game after the racing car for those who don't mind.

[_N_]

yep, that's screwed up,
now, what are you using to control it while you play,
cause some extremely powerfull cars are not driveable if you redline them and they go crazy,

[Solid Snake]

Keyboard. I'm not to worried about the handling of the car, it's just the resultant. Some of the results I see are just wacky.

[CmdrChris]

come on that car race was not soooo hard. took me about 20 goes to get it.

But when I won it was worth it.

[swiftynz]

i got stuck on that same point. it was frustrating enough to stop me from playing the game. :mad:
quite pissed really cos it was ok up until that point. driving those things is like driving a hovercraft that decides to suddenly chuck down an anchor at random points in a slide :rolleyes:

[SecretSquirrel]

Oddly enough, there isnt a person on the planet who liked that level, yet they will tell you it is one of the best games ever.

I agree...the racing level eats a dich.

[TweeKaGe]

is this level u guys are talking about the one where u have to race in that open-wheeled car race cos the regular driver got beaten up? if so.. it was ezy.. :D dont know wat u guys are talkin bout :D

, and i was cheering and laughing when Tommy got with that Sarah chick, I was like "yeah! go tommy!" hhehe

but yeh, great game, im loving it :)

[TheChosen_1]

Yeah that racing level is so god dam hard, it took me ages to do I kept on tipping the car when I went to fast round corners, and then when I did win the race I won it so easily.
At the moment im up to dumping some cars in the sea by the lighthouse which is the mission after killing Morelli. Man im so addicted to the game I love it, I Luv the tommy gun :D

[dice]

I thought it was hard, but I hope it wasn't the hardest bit in the game, like some people are suggesting :)

[p01s0n_p1e]

hehe mafia is pwnage
in freeride i love getting on the tram then doing drive by's with the tommygun, especially when you hit a mafia car by accident and the car starts chasing the tram so you shoot the driver and the otherguy cant do shizat!