It’s a point-blank, stark admonition that the road to hell might be paved with good intentions, but it’s paid for in blood. Mafia II doesn’t romanticise the mobster lifestyle, nor the passage one takes to rise through the ranks and get made. Though it didn’t receive the notoriety of Rockstar’s sandbox of depravity, Mafia has managed to maintain an understated dignity, prioritising class over ‘Hot Coffee’. ![]() ![]() A couple of iterations later we, of course, had Grand Theft Auto III which made its bones as the veritable godfather of the modern, ‘orgy of violence’ simulator. A lowly thief, out to steal back a book of stamps soon led to Grand Theft Auto, a hail of gunfire at my fingertips. ![]() Growing up, my first exposure to a two-bit crook came by way of Tom Sizemore’s Milo Peck in the tremendously underrated comedy-drama Hearts and Souls.
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