All those HD textures, reworked lighting, and extra depth bring what was previously considered the most detailed game world ever crafted up to a brand new standard. Almost two decades later, we're getting a full recreation of "The City of Lost Heaven," Mafia's main location, on modern technology. That's what makes today's trailer so fascinating to look at. The very next year, Mafia hit the scene and upped the ante even more. While we had smaller-scale examples of what would eventually become the "open-world" template, Grand Theft Auto III completely blew everyone away with its fully realized city. Instead, think of it as being politically and socially similar to Chicago instead of geographically.Back in 2002, the idea of a fully explorable and highly detailed game world was something of a pipedream. As such, don’t look too closely for parallels with Chicago. Like with Empire Bay in Mafia 2, and New Bordeaux in Mafia 3, Lost Heaven is designed around gameplay concerns. Obviously, Lost Heaven is much smaller than Chicago, but the real town is also not laid out as the one you see in the game. However, the city’s geographical layout isn’t too close to that of real-life Chicago. While it may seem like Lost Heaven sits on an ocean, it’s actually meant to be Lake Michigan, one of the five Great Lakes. Mafia 1 takes place in Lost Heaven, IL, which is itself a fictionalized version of Chicago. Initially uneasy about falling in with the Salieri crime family, Tommy soon finds that the rewards are too big to ignore.” After a run-in with the mob, cab driver Tommy Angelo is thrust into a deadly underworld. Re-made from the ground up, rise through the ranks of the Mafia during the Prohibition era of organized crime. “Part one of the Mafia crime saga – 1930s, Lost Heaven, IL However, in the store description on Steam, we finally got an answer: For years fans didn’t know where the game took place.
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