The Mafia series has always been in a conundrum. Mafia 2 looks better than the majority of open-world games that were released at the time, and it still holds up 15 years later. to enact revenge against organized enemies blows every other Mafia game out of the water. But a strictly linear Mafia game is preferred and much more aligned with what the series does well. The Mafia series could have fallen to the wayside, destined to be forgotten like so many Grand Theft Auto copycats from the 2000s and early 2010s.