

The sequel, Mafia II, came out in August 2010 and features the new setting of Empire Bay, a new protagonist and a supposedly Darker and Edgier storyline, plus New Roman Legions and Nazis with Gnarly Weapons in the opening. The game was noted for exceptional graphics for its time and a sophisticated police AI. if you shot at a car in Free Ride, it is possible to run into that same car later on in a different part of the city abandoned cars and weapons stay where they are, instead of disappearing after a while as in Grand Theft Auto, cars deform in real time as opposed to using pre-modelled damaged parts, etc.

The game had many unique features for its genre and time, including storing the aftermath of player actions in the city, even if the player left the location for a long time: e.g. Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven, often shortened to Mafia, is a 2002 Third-Person Shooter created by the Czech development studio Illusion Softworks (the guys behind Hidden & Dangerous, later renamed 2K Czech), which combines an affectionate pastiche to the classic Italian-American Mafia movies ( Scarface (1932), The Godfather, The Untouchables and so on) with a Grand Theft Auto-like gameplay to produce a sweeping storyline with many sudden revelations, intense gunfights, and adrenaline-laden chases in vintage cars. Thus begins Tommy's ascension from a simple yet impoverished cabbie to the best driver and hitman in the entire mob. This turns out to be a wise decision, since the other family is much worse. Forced to side with one party, he soon faces retribution from the other and has no choice but to start working for Don Salieri, whose men he saved earlier. One evening, he is caught in a wild car chase involving thugs of two rivaling mobs in town trying to kill each other.

Thomas "Tommy" Angelo is an ordinary taxi driver working in the city of Lost Heaven during The Great Depression.

note ( From L-R) Paulie Lombardo, Frank Colletti, Don Salieri, Thomas Angelo, Sam Trapani
