Mafia City H5's New Orleans looks so amazing

ARGYLE, N.Y. - June 12, 2018 - PRLog -- A Mafia game online (https://mafiah5.yottagames.com/) centered around a dude taking over territory and killing mafia dudes is too violent? What's he going to do ask to kill them politely?

This is perhaps testament to my open-world fatigue, but I do wish that we could build beautiful living cities in games and then do things in them other than shoot things and drive cars. This is one of the greatest things about Los Santos - although there's no meaningful interaction with NPCs, or much sense of life behind the walls of the city's buildings, you can at least go BMXing or play golf or go hiking as well as shooting people and driving cars. Mafia City H5's New Orleans looks so amazing that it makes me want to go and find some live music or people-watch or go for a drive and find something interesting, rather than shoot gangsters popping up from behind cover.

The takedowns in this game are unnecessarily violent, which is a real turn-off. Sneak takedowns involve Clay stabbing people several times in the gut, throat or face with an enormous knife, accompanied by gruesome sound effects. Mafia City H5 tends to excess, it appears: cars flip over and explode when gently grazed by an oncoming vehicle, gun takedowns involve shooting goons across the room on the end of a shotgun, there are seemingly endless rival criminals to shoot or explode or gut. Clay has rocket-launchers and grenades in all his bases. I'm re-watching The Sopranos at the moment, and it's making me wonder what a video game mob story might look like if it were punctuated rather than dominated by intense violence. (It probably wouldn't sell.)
Mafia City (https://mafiah5.yottagames.com/) is a 2018 game - it's already looking pretty far along, so I reckon end of next year would be a realistic expectation.

He said the takedowns were absurdly violent. Why would the protagonist go for multiple gut wounds when a single slice to the neck would be way faster and quieter? He described them as simply being gruesome for greusome's sake, and that's a little goofy in my opinion too.