The Problem With Mafia’s Racing Mission
One of the most iconic games of the early 2000s is Mafia. The game had a monumental impact on gaming due to the way it immerses players in a 1930s version of Illinois, complete with the alcohol prohibition and crime syndicates. Mafia is painstakingly detailed, and even as players roam the streets, they must be careful to follow the laws, or they may find the police pursuing them. Complementing the game’s crime noir world is a complex narrative about a taxi driver named Tommy Angelo who stumbles into the world of mafia crime bosses.
Mafia is so good that it received an impressive remake titled Mafia: Definitive Edition in 2020. The game was praised for improving visuals and audio while remaining faithful to the original game. Unfortunately, the remake does retain an annoying mission from the original game that has been a thorn for many gamers. In a game about alcohol bootleggers and mafiosos in fedoras, the mission “Fair Play” is well-known for all the wrong reasons.
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In Mafia, Tommy lives a regular life as a taxi driver until he unwittingly helps the Salieri crime family escape an ambush from the Morello family. After getting a taste of the crime life, Tommy finds himself returning, and it does not take long before he is a made man and is regularly working for the Salieri family. When the mission “Fair Play” comes around, Tommy has been a member of the crime family for a while.
The Salieri family are involved with gambling on racing, and they put their money on Mikey Dunne. To ensure they win, Tommy is tasked with messing up a race by stealing the car of one of Mikey’s competitors and delivering it to Lucas the mechanic, who will sabotage it. Things go wrong when Mikey is
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