Oddly, the police are not concerned if you enjoy driving against traffic provided you don't make contact with any of them. You can actually turn on a speed limiter to prevent you from going over the speed limit.

It's one of the only open-world games specifically about crime where the police will come after you for minor traffic offenses e.g., speeding, fender benders with non-police cars. The only significant side activity you can do is to bring cars to the scrapyard for extra cash, otherwise the only side activities are shops - whether you engage with them as a normal customer or just rob them is up to you. Either by buying better weapons, stealing a better car or upgrading one you've already got. Some missions don't give you the best equipment but because the map is technically open in between objectives, it allows you the agency to go get better stuff or not. There's never any choice as to what mission you can do next. It's more like a movie that just happens to take place on an open map. From my experience, you don't need to have played any of the other games to enjoy Mafia 2 or 3, but you'll get more out of them if you do. As I've stated, I never played Mafia 1, but I have played the more divisive Mafia 3 and I understand why it's so polarizing. Such as the manufacturing of corpses and their disposal. As you may have surmised by the title, you join the Mafia - where a number of low level robberies, criminal mischief and other more serious offenses take place. The game is based in Empire Bay, a fictional city that is based on New York City. Made ManYou'll play as Vito Scaletta coming back from the war after being arrested and given the option to enlist instead of serve time.

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