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Released in August 2002 for PC, Mafia sets you back in the 1930s city life. Due to some unfortunate circumstances, Tommy, a good natured cabdriver, has no other chance than working for the Mafia if he wants to survive. However, he soon finds friends there, doing several jobs for his boss in the fictional city of "Lost Heaven".

 

Note: A shortcut in Mission 6 is only possible in the original 1.0 version of the game.

Best time, version 1.0: 3:41 by Stefan 'xeen' Breunig on 2005-04-19, done in 93 segments, appended by mission to 20 parts.

Author's comments:

The main reason why this run is so long is that you need to drive the most time. There's not really a way to speed that up except taking the fastest route. If you know any trick that could speed up the run please tell me either posting in the thread in the forum or sending me a pm because I'm sure going for a faster run, and I won't upload it because it's 5min off.

The run actually consisted of 100 segments (for each save one) but thanks to Radix, he merged it into one per mission resulting in 20 segments.

Mission 1: I brake before going up the stairs so that I don't crash, but the AI isn't that smart so I can get rid of them very fast. I tried to look back to see if they were, but the camera has some serious problems here.

Mission 2: Just driving, driving, driving and fleeing. I sometimes need to slow down or my passenger will exit and the game's over.

Mission 3: Driving, destroying, driving. Killing the guard this way is also quiet and it saves a lot of time.

Mission 4: Shooting the yellow car's wheel prevents that guy from fleeing. Saves some time, too.

Mission 5 & 6: Just driving around and winning the race using the well-known circuit shortcut.

Mission 7: Once you've found out their base you don't need to kill anyone, just run through and wait for the sequence to begin. You can see really nice car physics in the end.

Mission 8: Killing that guy at the front desk makes the manager run to his office so I can just kill him on my way up. Running by the cops on the roof took many attempts, but I finally made it. Unfortunately I take much time killing the sniping one, but it still was the fastest try. Driving on the tram's tracks is much slower than normal, that's why I use the sidewalk.

Mission 9: No tricks in here, just doing the mission fast.

Mission 10: Much driving in here. Killing the last guy running into the airport, taking his Thompson and rushing in is much faster than killing all from outside. Using that truck I don't need to take care of those guys in the hangar, killing the telephoning one near Frank's wife saves me from dealing with the police that else would appear.

Mission 11 - 13: No tricks in here.

Mission 14: Just standing there at the end waiting for skipper to check the toilet. I've no idea how this could be done faster.

Mission 15: Going by car is much faster here, even in the hangar. Unless you use your pistol he will survive, and if he does it's almost impossible to kill him.

Mission 16: Ramming Morello's car when he enters the airport kills his driver so they you can just approach, kill him and steal his car afterwards which sure wasn't intended by the developers. I don't know because the car screws up while driving home, it sounds like hit a car, but there wasn't anything. Seems to be a bug.

Mission 17: Just running by the bums in the first floor, they won't follow you. I drop all my weapons before leaving the prison, because I planned else before. However stealing the cops car is faster.

Mission 18: I don't think I stole the truck in a quiet place, but no one seems to care about that. Unloading the boxes takes quite long and so does loading the Scorsese boxes. At least I'm ready before the guard returns.

Mission 19: Half of this mission is only boring blah blah and no way to skip it.

Mission 20: I got a much faster route for this level but it somehow broke the script so that it even didn't work if I took the normal route. However it's still OK, it takes me maybe 20 seconds longer (because I need to pass those rooms to the right and I need longer to kill the one with the Thompson). At least walking to the stairs which lead up to trigger the grenade worked fine, saves much ammunition and time.

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